Differentiable resampling improves particle filter performance.
problem Non-differentiability of traditional resampling in particle filters.
method Introduced a neural network resampler (particle transformer) trained with a likelihood-based loss function.
result Learned resampling outperforms traditional methods on synthetic and real-world tasks.
A computer vision approach improves neutral particle detection in particle flow algorithms.
problem Optimal reconstruction of particle content and kinematics in calorimeter images.
method Computer vision techniques applied to calorimeter images, using deep learning and super-resolution.
result Significantly improved reconstruction of neutral particle calorimeter energy deposits.
CMS uses machine learning to improve particle flow reconstruction.
problem Improving particle flow reconstruction in CMS.
method Machine learning, graph neural network, heterogeneous computing.
result Machine-learned PF model outperforms standard algorithm.
Real-life control tasks involve matters of various substances---rigid or soft bodies, liquid, gas---each with distinct physical behaviors. This poses challenges to traditional rigid-body physics engines. Particle-based simulators have been developed to model the dynamics of these complex scenes; however, relying on app…
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) is an increasingly popular method for protein structure determination. However, identifying a sufficient number of particles for analysis (often >100,000) can take months of manual effort. Current computational approaches are limited by high false positive rates and require significant…
Enhances particle filters with neural augmentation for multi-sub-state tracking.
problem Particle filters struggle with complex or approximated models and low latency requirements.
method Learning Flock (LF) uses a neural network to correct particle weights based on sub-particle relationships.
result LF improves performance, robustness, and latency in radar multi-target tracking.
New method learns latent energy models using particle algorithms.
problem Learning latent variable models with energy priors.
method Continuous-time SDEs for MMLE, particle-based discretization.
result Practical algorithm converges to solve MMLE problem.
Coercivity condition ensures learning of interacting particle systems.
problem Ensuring identifiability of interaction functions in learning systems of interacting particles.
method Equivalence of coercivity condition to strictly positive definiteness of an integral kernel.
result For ergodic systems, the integral kernel is strictly positive definite, satisfying the coercivity condition.
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…
GER learns particle dynamics from unpaired snapshots using physics-informed GANs.
problem Learning particle dynamics from unpaired snapshots with physics constraints.
method Physics-informed generative model to fit particle ensemble distributions.
result Inferred dynamics of particle ensembles governed by SODEs up to 100 dimensions.
New particle-based method improves semi-supervised learning robustness to label noise.
problem Label noise degrades semi-supervised learning accuracy.
method Particle competition and cooperation algorithm for robust semi-supervised learning.
result Improved robustness to label noise compared to existing methods.
DPFRL uses particle filters for decision making with complex visual observations.
problem Decision making with partial complex visual observations.
method Discriminative Particle Filter Reinforcement Learning (DPFRL) with a differentiable particle filter in the neural network policy.
result DPFRL outperforms state-of-the-art POMDP RL models in complex visual observation tasks.
Optimal weights improve particle-based approximations of discrete distributions.
problem Improving particle-based approximations of discrete distributions.
method Proving optimality of weights and showing how to compute them efficiently.
result Optimal weights can be computed from existing particle-based methods without extra costs.
Machine learning predicts phase behavior in active matter suspensions.
problem Predicting phase behavior in active matter systems using machine learning.
method Used deep learning techniques, including fully connected networks and graph neural networks, to predict motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) in ABP suspensions.
result Strong agreement between machine learning predictions and MIPS binodal from simulations, suggesting machine learning as an effective method for phase behavior determination.
MD-GAN learns long-time molecular behavior from short-time data with multi-particle input.
problem Accurately predicting long-time molecular dynamics from short-time data.
method Machine learning method (MD-GAN) that incorporates dynamics of multiple particles of molecules.
result Predicting diffusion with one-third of the training data length using multi-particle input.
New method for online learning in interacting particle systems.
problem Parameter estimation in stochastic interacting particle systems.
method Stochastic approximation of gradient of asymptotic log likelihood using continuous observations.
result Convergence to stationary points of asymptotic log-likelihood under suitable assumptions.
Particle filtering is a powerful approach to sequential state estimation and finds application in many domains, including robot localization, object tracking, etc. To apply particle filtering in practice, a critical challenge is to construct probabilistic system models, especially for systems with complex dynamics or r…
A new particle algorithm improves mean-field variational inference.
problem Efficiently approximating nonparametric posterior distributions in machine learning.
method Introduces PArticle VI (PAVI), a novel particle-based algorithm for nonparametric mean-field approximation.
result Obtains non-asymptotic error bounds for PArticle VI, providing the first end-to-end guarantee for particle-based MFVI.
This paper studies when particle filtering is efficient for planning in partially observed systems.
problem The efficiency of particle filtering for planning in partially observed linear dynamical systems.
method Coupling of ideal and approximate sequences to bound particle complexity.
result Polynomially many particles suffice for stable systems to approximate optimal planning.
MLPF uses graph neural networks to improve particle-flow reconstruction in high-pileup conditions.
problem Improving particle-flow reconstruction in high-pileup conditions at high-luminosity LHC.
method End-to-end trainable machine-learned particle-flow algorithm based on graph neural networks.
result MLPF improves physics response and demonstrates scalable reconstruction in high-pileup environments.
Paper proposes an end-to-end learning method for state estimation in robotics.
problem Lack of annotated data for optimising dynamic and measurement models in particle filters.
method End-to-end learning objective based on maximising a pseudo-likelihood function.
result Improves state estimation when large portions of true states are unknown.
Paper compares semi-supervised training for differentiable particle filters.
problem Lack of labelled data in real-world applications.
method Compares two semi-supervised training objectives.
result Improved performance in environments with scarce labelled data.
Improved particle-flow event reconstruction for future colliders using scalable neural networks.
problem Efficient and accurate particle reconstruction in future particle detectors.
method Comparative study of scalable machine learning models (graph neural network and kernel-based transformer) for event reconstruction.
result Graph neural network model improves jet transverse momentum resolution by up to 50%.
We provide a bridge between generative modeling in the Machine Learning community and simulated physical processes in High Energy Particle Physics by applying a novel Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) architecture to the production of jet images -- 2D representations of energy depositions from particles interacting …
This work finds mixed equilibria in zero-sum games using interacting particle dynamics.
problem Finding mixed equilibrium points in continuous minmax games.
method A method based on entropic regularisation of two-layer zero-sum games with interacting particle dynamics.
result The sequence of empirical measures of the particle system satisfies a large deviation principle as the number of particles grows to infinity, implying convergence of the empirical measure and the Nikaidô-Isoda error.
New approach reduces particle simulation complexity to linear time and space.
problem Challenges in learning dynamics from particle interactions, especially N-body problems.
method Transforms fully-connected interaction graphs into hierarchical ones, reducing complexity.
result Linear time and space complexity for large-scale simulations, retaining high accuracy.
Graph Neural Networks model 3D granular flow simulations.
problem Accurate modeling of complex 3D granular flow processes.
method Graph Neural Networks approach to simulate 3D granular flow using LIGGGHTS.
result Machine learning trajectories match physical granular flow processes.
We present the particle stochastic approximation EM (PSAEM) algorithm for learning of dynamical systems. The method builds on the EM algorithm, an iterative procedure for maximum likelihood inference in latent variable models. By combining stochastic approximation EM and particle Gibbs with ancestor sampling (PGAS), PS…
Physics-guided reinforcement learning optimizes swimming in turbulent flows.
problem Optimizing swimming efforts to maintain proximity in turbulent environments.
method Physics-informed actor-physicist reinforcement learning algorithm.
result Physics-informed reinforcement learning outperforms standard methods in turbulent flow control.
New methods learn sampling distributions for particle filters without supervision.
problem Designing accurate sampling distributions for nonlinear dynamical systems.
method Proposed four unsupervised learning methods for multivariate Gaussian and nonparametric distributions.
result Learned sampling distributions outperform designed ones in accuracy.
Pileup involves the contamination of the energy distribution arising from the primary collision of interest (leading vertex) by radiation from soft collisions (pileup). We develop a new technique for removing this contamination using machine learning and convolutional neural networks. The network takes as input the ene…
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) studies using single particle reconstruction are extensively used to reveal structural information on macromolecular complexes. Aiming at the highest achievable resolution, state of the art electron microscopes automatically acquire thousands of high-quality micrographs. Particles are…
MWGraD solves multi-objective distributional optimization using particle-based gradient descent.
problem Simultaneously minimize multiple objective functionals over probability distributions.
method Iterative particle-based algorithm MWGraD, estimating and aggregating Wasserstein gradients.
result Demonstrates effectiveness on synthetic and real-world datasets.
We present a particle flow realization of Bayes' rule, where an ODE-based neural operator is used to transport particles from a prior to its posterior after a new observation. We prove that such an ODE operator exists. Its neural parameterization can be trained in a meta-learning framework, allowing this operator to re…
PFPN uses particle filtering to improve character control in physics-based simulations.
problem Premature commitment to suboptimal actions in high-dimensional continuous control problems for articulated characters.
method Proposes a particle-based action policy using particle filtering to dynamically explore and discretize the action space.
result Demonstrates better imitation performance and robustness to external perturbations compared to Gaussian policies.
GPU-accelerated particle methods outperform neural samplers in LFT benchmarks.
problem High-dimensional multimodal sampling problems in lattice field theory.
method GPU-accelerated particle Monte Carlo methods (Sequential Monte Carlo and nested sampling).
result These methods match or outperform neural samplers in sample quality and wall-clock time.
Improved volatility estimation using SV-PF-RNN.
problem Estimating true volatility in the presence of market noise.
method SV-PF-RNN: hybrid neural network and particle filter architecture.
result SV-PF-RNN outperforms basic particle filter.
We present differentiable particle filters (DPFs): a differentiable implementation of the particle filter algorithm with learnable motion and measurement models. Since DPFs are end-to-end differentiable, we can efficiently train their models by optimizing end-to-end state estimation performance, rather than proxy objec…
Hybrid approach combines transformer and Bayesian filtering for robust multiple particle tracking.
problem Challenges in tracking multiple particles in noisy scenes due to combinatorial explosion of hypotheses.
method Attention-Bayesian hybrid framework using transformer for association and Bayesian filtering for pruning hypotheses.
result Improved tracking accuracy and robustness against spurious detections.
Algorithm learns interaction kernels for particle systems from data.
problem Understanding and modeling interactions in systems of interacting particles.
method Nonparametric algorithm using least squares with regularization, probabilistic error functional, and reproducing kernel Hilbert space convergence.
result The algorithm converges optimally and accurately learns interaction kernels.
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…
Generative algorithms learn high-dimensional data efficiently and generate new samples.
problem Learning from scarce high-dimensional data.
method Lipschitz-regularized gradient flows and particle-based algorithms.
result Correctly transports gene expression data points with high dimensionality.
Deep FPF approximates gain function for high-dimensional particle filtering.
problem Approximating the exact gain function in high-dimensional settings.
method Represent the gain function as a neural network gradient and solve a variational Poisson equation via optimization.
result The approach allows parallel processing of particles and is applicable to high-dimensional problems.
Modern detectors of cosmic gamma-rays are a special type of imaging telescopes (air Cherenkov telescopes) supplied with cameras with a relatively large number of photomultiplier-based pixels. For example, the camera of the TAIGA-IACT telescope has 560 pixels of hexagonal structure. Images in such cameras can be analyse…
We explore the use of graph networks to deal with irregular-geometry detectors in the context of particle reconstruction. Thanks to their representation-learning capabilities, graph networks can exploit the full detector granularity, while natively managing the event sparsity and arbitrarily complex detector geometries…
Proposes PGPS for efficient Bayesian inference.
problem Efficient sampling from complex posterior distributions.
method Path-guided particle-based sampling with Log-weighted Shrinkage.
result PGPS generates samples closer to target distribution.
Jointly estimates flow fields and particle properties from Lagrangian data.
problem Estimating flow fields and particle properties from sparse, noisy Lagrangian data.
method Data assimilation framework coupling Eulerian and Lagrangian models.
result Joint estimation of flow fields and particle properties in various flow regimes.
Framework preserves emergent physics in non-equilibrium systems from particle trajectories.
problem Linking short spatiotemporal scales to emergent bulk physics in multiscale systems.
method Metriplectic bracket formalism for structure-preserving coarse-graining.
result Preservation of thermodynamic laws and conservation in machine-learned dynamics.