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Machine learning boosts physics research, especially at high energy experiments.
Foundation models trained on collider data improve jet generation tasks.
Using deep neural networks for identifying physics objects at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has become a powerful alternative approach in recent years. After successful training of deep neural networks, examining the trained networks not only helps us understand the behaviour of neural networks, but also helps improv…
We introduce jet topics: a framework to identify underlying classes of jets from collider data. Because of a close mathematical relationship between distributions of observables in jets and emergent themes in sets of documents, we can apply recent techniques in "topic modeling" to extract jet topics from data with mini…
For data sets populated by a very well modeled process and by another process of unknown probability density function (PDF), a desired feature when manipulating the fraction of the unknown process (either for enhancing it or suppressing it) consists in avoiding to modify the kinematic distributions of the well modeled …
NSBI approach detects Higgs trilinear coupling with high luminosity upgrade constraints.
Improved particle-flow event reconstruction for future colliders using scalable neural networks.
Tensor networks improve b-jet classification in high-energy physics.
Collider data must be corrected for detector effects ("unfolded") to be compared with many theoretical calculations and measurements from other experiments. Unfolding is traditionally done for individual, binned observables without including all information relevant for characterizing the detector response. We introduc…
Combining multiple collider events improves machine learning performance.
We introduce a novel implementation of a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm which is designed to find an optimal jet grooming strategy, a critical tool for collider experiments. The RL agent is trained with a reward function constructed to optimize the resulting jet properties, using both signal and background sampl…
Multivariate techniques based on engineered features have found wide adoption in the identification of jets resulting from hadronic top decays at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Recent Deep Learning developments in this area include the treatment of the calorimeter activation as an image or supplying a list of jet con…
Modern machine learning techniques, such as convolutional, recurrent and recursive neural networks, have shown promise for jet substructure at the Large Hadron Collider. For example, they have demonstrated effectiveness at boosted top or W boson identification or for quark/gluon discrimination. We explore these methods…
DVAEs speed up calorimeter simulation for LHC data.
Enhanced latent spaces improve collider simulation precision.
Collimated streams of particles produced in high energy physics experiments are organized using clustering algorithms to form jets. To construct jets, the experimental collaborations based at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) primarily use agglomerative hierarchical clustering schemes known as sequential recombination. W…
A key question for machine learning approaches in particle physics is how to best represent and learn from collider events. As an event is intrinsically a variable-length unordered set of particles, we build upon recent machine learning efforts to learn directly from sets of features or "point clouds". Adapting and spe…
Reliable data quality monitoring is a key asset in delivering collision data suitable for physics analysis in any modern large-scale High Energy Physics experiment. This paper focuses on the use of artificial neural networks for supervised and semi-supervised problems related to the identification of anomalies in the d…
Identifying the flavour of neutral mesons production is one of the most important components needed in the study of time-dependent violation. The harsh environment of the Large Hadron Collider makes it particularly hard to succeed in this task. We present an inclusive flavour-tagging algorithm as an upgrade of…
Study compares unsupervised and weakly-supervised methods for anomaly detection at the LHC.
Transformers predict scattering amplitudes in theoretical physics.
Challenge uses unsupervised learning to detect new physics signals at LHC.
New method uses cluster shapes to improve track finding in particle collisions.
Tensor networks improve anomaly detection at LHC for new physics.
Applications of machine learning tools to problems of physical interest are often criticized for producing sensitivity at the expense of transparency. To address this concern, we explore a data planing procedure for identifying combinations of variables -- aided by physical intuition -- that can discriminate signal fro…
Paper presents FPGA implementation for efficient recurrent neural networks.
Machine learning has been applied to several problems in particle physics research, beginning with applications to high-level physics analysis in the 1990s and 2000s, followed by an explosion of applications in particle and event identification and reconstruction in the 2010s. In this document we discuss promising futu…
The interpretation of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data in the framework of Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) theories is hampered by the need to run computationally expensive event generators and detector simulators. Performing statistically convergent scans of high-dimensional BSM theories is consequently challenging, a…
Versatile model for High Energy Physics events.
High-precision machine learning reduces particle physics simulations by orders of magnitude.
PHAZE framework uses zkML and hashing for fast, verifiable LHC trigger decisions.
Probabilistic programming languages (PPLs) are receiving widespread attention for performing Bayesian inference in complex generative models. However, applications to science remain limited because of the impracticability of rewriting complex scientific simulators in a PPL, the computational cost of inference, and the …
Automated tool reduces FPGA inference latency to 5 μs for deep neural networks.
Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) rely on detailed simulations of particle collisions to build expectations of what experimental data may look like under different theory modeling assumptions. Petabytes of simulated data are needed to develop analysis techniques, though they are expensive to generate using …
A new machine learning method handles nuisance parameters for better unfolding in particle physics.
Given the lack of evidence for new particle discoveries at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), it is critical to broaden the search program. A variety of model-independent searches have been proposed, adding sensitivity to unexpected signals. There are generally two types of such searches: those that rely heavily on simul…
Graph neural networks improve charged particle tracking on FPGAs.
Two methods use simulation to improve anomaly detection in particle physics.
The precise modeling of subatomic particle interactions and propagation through matter is paramount for the advancement of nuclear and particle physics searches and precision measurements. The most computationally expensive step in the simulation pipeline of a typical experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is th…
PolyLUT uses polynomials to reduce FPGA latency.
VAE improves anomaly detection for jet tagging at the LHC.
Optimal transport calibrates machine learning models for particle physics simulations.
Recent results at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have pointed to enhanced physics capabilities through the improvement of the real-time event processing techniques. Machine learning methods are ubiquitous and have proven to be very powerful in LHC physics, and particle physics as a whole. However, exploration of the u…
MLPF uses graph neural networks to improve particle-flow reconstruction in high-pileup conditions.
Particle identification is one of the core tasks in the data analysis pipeline at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Statistically, this entails the identification of rare signal events buried in immense backgrounds that mimic the properties of the former. In machine learning parlance, particle identification represents …
LOT framework speeds up event distance computation in collider physics.
Collider regression improves predictive performance in regression tasks.
Quantum GNNs outperform classical GNNs in jet tagging.