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A Lorentz-Equivariant Transformer for All of the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-10-29 v3 Machine Learning High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We show that the Lorentz-Equivariant Geometric Algebra Transformer (L-GATr) yields state-of-the-art performance for a wide range of machine learning tasks at the Large Hadron Collider. L-GATr represents data in a geometric algebra over space-time and is equivariant under Lorentz transformations. The underlying architecture is a versatile and scalable transformer, which is able to break symmetries if needed. We demonstrate the power of L-GATr for amplitude regression and jet classification, and then benchmark it as the first Lorentz-equivariant generative network. For all three LHC tasks, we find significant improvements over previous architectures.

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@article{arxiv.2411.00446,
  title  = {A Lorentz-Equivariant Transformer for All of the LHC},
  author = {Johann Brehmer and Víctor Bresó and Pim de Haan and Tilman Plehn and Huilin Qu and Jonas Spinner and Jesse Thaler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.00446},
  year   = {2025}
}

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