Graph neural networks at the Large Hadron Collider

G DeZoort, PW Battaglia, C Biscarat… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
From raw detector activations to reconstructed particles, data at the Large Hadron Collider
(LHC) are sparse, irregular, heterogeneous and highly relational in nature. Graph neural …

End-to-end latent variational diffusion models for inverse problems in high energy physics

A Shmakov, K Greif, M Fenton… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
High-energy collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) provide valuable insights into
open questions in particle physics. However, detector effects must be corrected before …

Scalars are universal: Equivariant machine learning, structured like classical physics

S Villar, DW Hogg, K Storey-Fisher… - Advances in …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
There has been enormous progress in the last few years in designing neural networks that
respect the fundamental symmetries and coordinate freedoms of physical law. Some of …

Fast and improved neutrino reconstruction in multineutrino final states with conditional normalizing flows

JA Raine, M Leigh, K Zoch, T Golling - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
In this work we introduce ν 2-flows, an extension of the ν-flows method to final states
containing multiple neutrinos. The architecture can natively scale for all combinations of …

Masked particle modeling on sets: towards self-supervised high energy physics foundation models

T Golling, L Heinrich, M Kagan, S Klein… - Machine Learning …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose masked particle modeling (MPM) as a self-supervised method for learning
generic, transferable, and reusable representations on unordered sets of inputs for use in …

Top-philic machine learning

RK Barman, S Biswas - The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 2024 - Springer
In this article, we review the application of modern machine learning (ML) techniques to
boost the search for processes involving the top quarks at the LHC. We revisit the formalism …

Point cloud transformers applied to collider physics

V Mikuni, F Canelli - Machine Learning: Science and Technology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Methods for processing point cloud information have seen a great success in collider
physics applications. One recent breakthrough in machine learning is the usage of …

Topological reconstruction of particle physics processes using graph neural networks

L Ehrke, JA Raine, K Zoch, M Guth, T Golling - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We present a new approach, the Topograph, which reconstructs underlying physics
processes, including the intermediary particles, by leveraging underlying priors from the …

The exact sample complexity gain from invariances for kernel regression

B Tahmasebi, S Jegelka - Advances in Neural Information …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In practice, encoding invariances into models improves sample complexity. In this work, we
study this phenomenon from a theoretical perspective. In particular, we provide minimax …

-flows: Conditional neutrino regression

M Leigh, JA Raine, K Zoch, T Golling - SciPost Physics, 2023 - scipost.org
Abstract We present $\nu $-Flows, a novel method for restricting the likelihood space of
neutrino kinematics in high-energy collider experiments using conditional normalising flows …