Phone-sized companions to the poster “Template Matching, Not Time Learning” (AI4Physics @ ICML 2026). Real Zwicky Transient Facility light curves, a self-supervised encoder’s embedding space, and the classical period search — all interactive.
A curated playground of 25k Chen et al. (2020) variable stars in the encoder's learned map. Colour by class, period, periodic strictness or amplitude; find the gold ★ (ZTF J1539); tap any star for its folded light curve.
The honest view: 26,534 randomly selected ZTF sources — the encoder's actual training diet — with ZTF J1539 and 17 other ultracompact binaries injected (gold ★).
The encoder never sees colour or distance, yet its unsupervised clusters land on real stellar populations. Pinch, pan, tap.
The poster's six example stars. Tap any Lomb–Scargle peak and watch the light curve fold at that trial period — feel the alias forest.
Full-screen QR codes for this hub, each demo, and the paper — show this page at the poster and let people scan straight off your phone.