Foreground masking and incomplete sky coverage complicate CMB polarization analyses by inducing mode coupling and imperfect E/B separation, with particularly strong impact on searches for primordial $B$-modes. We present SkyReconNet-P, a convolutional neural network for inpainting CMB polarization maps that extends the SkyReconNet framework to jointly reconstruct the polarization $(Q,U)$ maps from partial-sky observations. The method combines regional processing with a hybrid design, utilizing standard convolution and dilated convolution to do a multiscale feature integration. We evaluate performance at both the map and power spectrum level using two masking scenarios: a generated random mask and the Planck 2018 common polarization inpainting mask. For both masking scenarios, SkyReconNet-P reproduces the large-scale morphology of the target maps. In power-spectrum space, we find that the reconstructed $E$-mode spectrum closely tracks the target at low multipoles, while small biases emerge at higher $\ell$. For $B$-mode, the raw reconstructed spectra exhibit a larger multipole-dependent bias, which we mitigate using a simulation-based linear calibration. We show that the calibrated $B$-mode spectrum preserve more information by comparing it with spectrum estimation using pseudo-$C_\ell$. Finally, we demonstrate cosmological parameter inference from calibrated reconstructed spectra by fitting $(r, A_{\rm lens})$ with a Gaussian bandpower likelihood, recovering posteriors consistent with injected parameters across three test ensembles down to $r \sim 10^{-3}$. These results support inpainting as a complementary route to cut-sky approaches when downstream pipelines can greatly benefit from statistically well-characterized, gap-filled polarization maps.
Inpainting via Generative Adversarial Networks for CMB data analysis
Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)(基础科学研究所(IPM));Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)(国际高等研究院(SISSA));Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe (IFPU)(宇宙基础物理研究所(IFPU))
Mitigating point-source contamination in CMB polarization: a Generalized Point Spread Function fitting approach
Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences(高能物理研究所粒子天体物理重点实验室);University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学)