The Production and Distributed Analysis (PanDA) system, originally developed for the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), has evolved into a robust platform for orchestrating large-scale workflows across distributed computing resources. Coupled with its intelligent Distributed Dispatch and Scheduling (iDDS) component, PanDA supports AI/ML-driven workflows through a scalable and flexible workflow engine. We present an AI-assisted framework for detector design optimization that integrates multi-objective Bayesian optimization with the PanDA--iDDS workflow engine to coordinate iterative simulations across heterogeneous resources. The framework addresses the challenge of exploring high-dimensional parameter spaces inherent in modern detector design. We demonstrate the framework using benchmark problems and realistic studies of the ePIC and dRICH detectors for the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). Results show improved automation, scalability, and efficiency in multi-objective optimization. This work establishes a flexible and extensible paradigm for AI-driven detector design and other computationally intensive scientific applications.
@article{arxiv.2603.30014,
title = {Scalable AI-assisted Workflow Management for Detector Design Optimization Using Distributed Computing},
author = {Derek Anderson and Amit Bashyal and Markus Diefenthaler and Cristiano Fanelli and Wen Guan and Tanja Horn and Alex Jentsch Meifeng Lin and Tadashi Maeno and Kei Nagai and Hemalata Nayak and Connor Pecar and Karthik Suresh and Fang-Ying Tsai and Anselm Vossen and Tianle Wang and Torre Wenaus},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.30014},
year = {2026}
}