-`Spherinator` and `HiPSter` are tools to provide much needed explorative access and visualization for multimodal data from extremely large astrophysical datasets, ranging from exascale cosmological simulations to multi-billion object observational galaxy surveys. `Spherinator` uses dimensionality reduction to learn a low-dimensional representation of galaxy structure, and `HiPSter` creates a interactive hierarchical spherical vizualization of the entire dataset. They currently support multichannel maps or images as input. `Spherinator` uses [PyTorch Lightning](https://lightning.ai/docs/pytorch/stable/) to implement a convolutional neural network (CNN) based variational autoencoder (VAE) with a spherical latent space.
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