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Paper introduces PnPMass, a plug-and-play framework for weak lensing mass mapping that reconciles reconstruction accuracy with practical deployment constraints of upcoming Stage-IV surveys. The key innovation is a carefully chosen data-fidelity operator that decouples denoiser training from observation-specific noise statistics, enabling a single trained model to handle varying survey conditions without retraining. Coupled with moment-network-based uncertainty quantification and conformal calibration, the method offers fast inference with coverage guarantees, addressing limitations of both end-to-end deep learning and costly MCMC sampling approaches.
Upcoming stage-IV surveys such as Euclid and Rubin will deliver vast amounts of high-precision data, opening new opportunities to constrain cosmological models with unprecedented accuracy. A key step in this process is the reconstruction of the dark matter distribution from noisy weak lensing shear measurements. Current deep learning-based mass mapping methods achieve high reconstruction accuracy, but either require retraining a model for each new observed sky region (limiting practicality) or rely on slow MCMC sampling. Efficient exploitation of future survey data therefore calls for a new method that is accurate, flexible, and fast at inference. In addition, uncertainty quantification with coverage guarantees is essential for reliable cosmological parameter estimation. We introduce PnPMass, a plug-and-play approach for weak lensing mass mapping. The algorithm produces point estimates by alternating between a gradient descent step with a carefully chosen data fidelity term, and a denoising step implemented with a single deep learning model trained on simulated data corrupted by Gaussian white noise. We also propose a fast, sampling-free uncertainty quantification scheme based on moment networks, with calibrated error bars obtained through conformal prediction to ensure coverage guarantees. Finally, we benchmark PnPMass against both model-driven and data-driven mass mapping techniques. PnPMass achieves performance close to that of state-of-the-art deep-learning methods while offering fast inference (converging in just a few iterations) and requiring only a single training phase, independently of the noise covariance of the observations. It therefore combines flexibility, efficiency, and reconstruction accuracy, while delivering tighter error bars than existing approaches, making it well suited for upcoming weak lensing surveys.