Rehemtulla, Nabeel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5683-2389
Miller, Adam A. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9515-478X
Walmsley, Mike https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6408-4181
Shah, Ved G. https://orcid.org/0009-0009-1590-2318
Jegou du Laz, Theophile https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6181-4526
Coughlin, Michael W. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8262-2924
Sasli, Argyro https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7357-0889
Bloom, Joshua https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7777-216X
Fremling, Christoffer https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4223-103X
Graham, Matthew J. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3168-0139
Groom, Steven L. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5668-3507
Hale, David https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4662-122X
Mahabal, Ashish A. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2242-0244
Perley, Daniel A. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8472-1996
Purdum, Josiah https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1227-3738
Rusholme, Ben https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7648-4142
Sollerman, Jesper https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1546-6615
Kasliwal, Mansi M. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5619-4938
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Science Foundation (AST-1440341)
Simons Foundation (MPS-AI-00010513)
Research Corporation for Science Advancement (CS-CSA-2025-059)
Basic Energy Sciences (DE-SC0025599)
Article Title: Pre-training Vision Models for the Classification of Alerts from Wide-field Time-domain Surveys
Journal Title: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Article Type: paper
Copyright Information: © 2026. The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd on behalf of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP).
Publication dates
Date Received: 2025-12-14
Date Accepted: 2026-03-11
Online publication date: 2026-03-27