Recent literature on deep neural networks for tagging of highly energetic jets resulting from top quark decays has focused on image based techniques or multivariate approaches using high-level jet substructure variables. Here, a sequential approach to this task is taken by using an ordered sequence of jet constituents …
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Equivariant neural network simplifies particle physics models.
problem Complexity and interpretability in particle physics classification.
method Lorentz group equivariant neural network architecture.
result Simplified, interpretable models with fewer parameters.
Iterative subtraction method for Feature Rankingphysics.data-an
Training features used to analyse physical processes are often highly correlated and determining which ones are most important for the classification is a non-trivial tasks. For the use case of a search for a top-quark pair produced in association with a Higgs boson decaying to bottom-quarks at the LHC, we compare feat…
Develops neural networks for reductive Lie groups, enhancing symmetry respect.
problem Symmetry respect in neural networks for reductive Lie groups.
method General equivariant neural network architecture for any reductive Lie Group G.
result Demonstrates generality and performance in top quark decay tagging and shape recognition.
MLPF: Efficient machine-learned particle-flow reconstruction using graph neural networksphysics.data-an
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.
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…
Since the machine learning techniques are improving rapidly, it has been shown that the image recognition techniques in deep neural networks can be used to detect jet substructure. And it turns out that deep neural networks can match or outperform traditional approach of expert features. However, there are disadvantage…
Artificial intelligence offers the potential to automate challenging data-processing tasks in collider physics. To establish its prospects, we explore to what extent deep learning with convolutional neural networks can discriminate quark and gluon jets better than observables designed by physicists. Our approach builds…
We demonstrate the agreement between the Higgs branches of two N=2 theories proposed by Argyres and Seiberg to be S-dual, namely the SU(3) gauge theory with six quarks, and the SU(2) gauge theory with one pair of quarks coupled to the superconformal theory with E_6 flavor symmetry. In mathematical terms, we demonstrate…
DeepJet improves jet flavor classification and quark-gluon tagging.
problem Jet flavor classification in high-energy physics experiments.
method Proposes a novel deep learning architecture, DeepJet, for improved performance.
result Improves heavy flavor classification performance and extends to quark-gluon tagging.
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…
New method uses neural networks to estimate parameters without needing detector simulations.
problem Estimating parameters in high-energy physics with detector effects.
method Two-level fitting approach: SRGN (Simulation-level fit based on Reweighting Generator-level events with Neural networks).
result Demonstrated using simulated datasets, SRGN can estimate parameters without detector effects.
Geometric QCD framework establishes stable vacuum for quark confinement.
problem Quark confinement in QCD.
method Geometric construction of stable vacuum using Hodge-dual surfaces.
result Existence and stability of the Hodge-dual surface in 4D ensures quark confinement.
New model improves QGP simulation efficiency and accuracy.
problem Limited QGP simulation runs due to high computational cost.
method Additive Multi-Index Gaussian process (AdMIn-GP) model.
result Significantly improved surrogate modeling performance.
Modern machine learning techniques can be used to construct powerful models for difficult collider physics problems. In many applications, however, these models are trained on imperfect simulations due to a lack of truth-level information in the data, which risks the model learning artifacts of the simulation. In this …
Unified access package for fundamental physics datasets simplifies machine learning.
problem Lack of unified access to datasets from multiple fundamental physics disciplines.
method Unified Python package with common interface and reference models.
result Graph-based neural networks perform similarly to dedicated methods on various datasets.
Compactification of AdS5 allows studying meson behavior in QCD.
problem Understanding meson behavior in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD).
method Deforming AdS5 metric to model Coulomb interaction between charges.
result Proposed conformal deformation provides a quantum mechanical description of mesons.
The Helon model identifies Standard Model quarks and leptons with certain framed braids joined together at both ends by a connecting node (disk). These surfaces with boundary are called braided 3-belts (or simply belts). Twisting and braiding of ribbons composing braided 3-belts are interchangeable, and it was shown in…
A common problem in a high energy physics experiment is extracting a signal from a much larger background. Posed as a classification task, there is said to be an imbalance in the number of samples belonging to the signal class versus the number of samples from the background class. In this work we provide a brief overv…
A new transform links rotating calorons to solutions of a differential equation.
problem Existence and characterization of rotating calorons.
method Formulated a Nahm transform to relate rotating calorons to solutions of a delayed-differential equation.
result Existence of an eight-parameter family of rotating calorons with nontrivial holonomy.
We propose a construction of Kähler and non-Kähler Calabi-Yau manifolds by branched double covers of twistor spaces. In this construction we use the twistor spaces of four-manifolds with self-dual conformal structures, with the examples of connected sum of s. We also construct -fibered Calabi-Ya…
As machine learning algorithms become increasingly sophisticated to exploit subtle features of the data, they often become more dependent on simulations. This paper presents a new approach called weakly supervised classification in which class proportions are the only input into the machine learning algorithm. Using on…
Paper analyzes trade-offs in top-k classification accuracies and proposes a new loss function.
problem CE loss does not always optimize top-k prediction, especially with complex data.
method Introduces a novel top-k transition loss to improve top-k accuracy.
result Our loss function improves top-k accuracy, especially for k > 10.
Study of -theory dual of thermal QCD-like theories at intermediate coupling.
problem Missing top-down holographic dual for thermal QCD-like theories at intermediate 't Hooft coupling.
method Analysis of corrections and corrections in the MQGP background.
result Discovery of corrections and -structure classification of underlying geometries.
Top/O's first two k-invariants are zero.
problem Understanding the structure of Top/O.
method Analyzing the first two k-invariants.
result The first two k-invariants of Top/O vanish.
Top-k Multiclass SVMstat.ML
Class ambiguity is typical in image classification problems with a large number of classes. When classes are difficult to discriminate, it makes sense to allow k guesses and evaluate classifiers based on the top-k error instead of the standard zero-one loss. We propose top-k multiclass SVM as a direct method to optimiz…
The top- error is often employed to evaluate performance for challenging classification tasks in computer vision as it is designed to compensate for ambiguity in ground truth labels. This practical success motivates our theoretical analysis of consistent top- classification. Surprisingly, it is not rigorously und…
Paper introduces a new loss function for deep imbalanced classification.
problem Class ambiguity and imbalance in large datasets.
method Stochastic top-K hinge loss based on smoothed top-K operator.
result Our loss function significantly outperforms other baseline loss functions in imbalanced datasets.
Unified model for prediction and deferral selects top-k entities efficiently.
problem Efficiently selecting top-k entities for deferral in machine learning.
method One-stage Top- Learning-to-Defer framework with a convex surrogate.
result Unified model achieves superior accuracy-cost trade-offs.
Proposes top-label calibration and M2B framework for multiclass to binary calibration.
problem Multiclass calibration and interpretation issues.
method Top-label calibration and M2B reduction framework.
result M2B + HB achieves lower calibration error than other methods.
In order to push the performance on realistic computer vision tasks, the number of classes in modern benchmark datasets has significantly increased in recent years. This increase in the number of classes comes along with increased ambiguity between the class labels, raising the question if top-1 error is the right perf…
Smoothed top-k operator improves model training efficiency.
problem Discontinuous top-k operation makes models untrainable end-to-end.
method SOFT top-k operator approximates top-k as EOT solution.
result Improved performance in k-nearest neighbors and beam search.
In this paper, we introduce a geometric structure called top, which is a trivialized bundle of plane pencils over a Riemannian 3-manifold, defined as the set of kernels of a circle of 1-forms (e.g. of contact and integrable forms) with particular properties with respect to the metric. We classify the manifolds which ad…
New algorithm reduces sample complexity for Top Two method.
problem Fixed-confidence best arm identification for Top Two methods.
method UCB-based Top Two algorithm for non-asymptotic analysis.
result First non-asymptotic upper bound on expected sample complexity.
Paper introduces efficient top-k selection with differential privacy.
problem Efficiently selecting top-k elements with differential privacy.
method Oneshot Laplace mechanism, generalizing Report Noisy Max.
result Noise level of O(sqrt(k)/eps) for approximate differential privacy.
Analysis and Optimization of Loss Functions for Multiclass, Top-k, and Multilabel Classificationcs.CV
Top-k error is currently a popular performance measure on large scale image classification benchmarks such as ImageNet and Places. Despite its wide acceptance, our understanding of this metric is limited as most of the previous research is focused on its special case, the top-1 error. In this work, we explore two direc…
We describe a strategy for constructing a neural network jet substructure tagger which powerfully discriminates boosted decay signals while remaining largely uncorrelated with the jet mass. This reduces the impact of systematic uncertainties in background modeling while enhancing signal purity, resulting in improved di…
The topological fundamental group is a topological invariant that assigns to each space a quasi-topological group and is discrete on spaces which are well behaved locally. For a totally path-disconnected, Hausdorff, unbased space , we compute the topological fundamental group of the "hoop earring" spac…
Establishing criteria for top cell inertness in complexes.
problem Criteria for top cell inertness in Poincaré duality complexes.
method Algebraic intersection theory, homotopy fibrations, surgery, homogeneous spaces.
result Established various criteria for top cell inertness.
It is well-known that classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. To defend against adversarial perturbations, various certified robustness results have been derived. However, existing certified robustnesses are limited to top-1 predictions. In many real-world applications, top- predictions are more rel…
Extends homotopical theory to locally compact groups, refining their compactness properties.
problem Developing homotopical invariants for locally compact groups.
method Extending classical theory of homotopical -sets to locally compact Hausdorff groups, defining sets of characters.
result Recovering and generalizing classical results on characters and compactness properties of groups.
For information retrieval and binary classification, we show that precision at the top (or precision at k) and recall at the top (or recall at k) are maximised by thresholding the posterior probability of the positive class. This finding is a consequence of a result on constrained minimisation of the cost-sensitive exp…
Motivated by applications in recommender systems, web search, social choice and crowdsourcing, we consider the problem of identifying the set of top items from noisy pairwise comparisons. In our setting, we are non-actively given pairwise comparisons between each pair of items, where each comparison has noi…
Moment Pooling reduces latent space dimensions in machine learning models.
problem High-dimensional latent spaces in machine learning models are hard to interpret.
method Moment Pooling extends Deep Sets networks to arbitrary multivariate moments.
result Latent dimensions as small as 1 can achieve similar performance to higher dimensions.
Top-two algorithm improved for best-k-arm selection.
problem Best-k-arm identification in multi-armed bandits.
method Information-directed selection based on dual variables.
result Top-two Thompson sampling with IDS is asymptotically optimal.
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, especially white-box targeted attacks. One scheme of learning attacks is to design a proper adversarial objective function that leads to the imperceptible perturbation for any test image (e.g., the Carlini-Wagner (C&W) method). Most methods address targ…
We propose Top-N-Rank, a novel family of list-wise Learning-to-Rank models for reliably recommending the N top-ranked items. The proposed models optimize a variant of the widely used discounted cumulative gain (DCG) objective function which differs from DCG in two important aspects: (i) It limits the evaluation of DCG …
Paper characterizes minimax regret rates for online ranking with top-k feedback.
problem Analyzing online ranking with partial feedback.
method Developed techniques from partial monitoring to characterize minimax regret rates.
result Full characterization of minimax regret rates for Precision@n.