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Generative networks are perfect tools to enhance the speed and precision of LHC simulations. It is important to understand their statistical precision, especially when generating events beyond the size of the training dataset. We present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-17 Henning Bahl , Sascha Diefenbacher , Nina Elmer , Tilman Plehn , Jonas Spinner

In Natural Language Processing (NLP), finding data augmentation techniques that can produce high-quality human-interpretable examples has always been challenging. Recently, leveraging kNN such that augmented examples are retrieved from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Ehsan Kamalloo , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Peyman Passban , Ali Ghodsi

This paper presents an efficient method for extracting the second-order sensitivities from a system of implicit nonlinear equations on upcoming graphical processing units (GPU) dominated computer systems. We design a custom automatic…

Measuring di-Higgs production in the four-bottom channel is challenged by overwhelming QCD backgrounds and imperfect simulations. We develop a Bayesian mixture model that simultaneously infers signal and background fractions and their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 Ezequiel Alvarez , Leandro Da Rold , Manuel Szewc , Alejandro Szynkman , Santiago Tanco , Tatiana Tarutina

Spatio-temporal graphs such as traffic networks or gene regulatory systems present challenges for the existing deep learning methods due to the complexity of structural changes over time. To address these issues, we introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Felix L. Opolka , Aaron Solomon , Cătălina Cangea , Petar Veličković , Pietro Liò , R Devon Hjelm

Iterative phase retrieval algorithms typically employ projections onto constraint subspaces to recover the unknown phases in the Fourier transform of an image, or, in the case of x-ray crystallography, the electron density of a molecule.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Veit Elser

We present a short review of theories based on warped extra dimensions (motivated by the hierarchy problem of the Standard Model) which can accomodate a Higgs boson in the range suggested by the recent LHC results at 7 TeV. Using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-21 M. Quiros

The current state-of-the-art model HiAGM for hierarchical text classification has two limitations. First, it correlates each text sample with all labels in the dataset which contains irrelevant information. Second, it does not consider any…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Zhongfen Deng , Hao Peng , Dongxiao He , Jianxin Li , Philip S. Yu

In pursuit of precise and fast theory predictions for the LHC, we present an implementation of the MadNIS method in the MadGraph event generator. A series of improvements in MadNIS further enhance its efficiency and speed. We validate this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-31 Theo Heimel , Nathan Huetsch , Fabio Maltoni , Olivier Mattelaer , Tilman Plehn , Ramon Winterhalder

This paper considers the question of recovering the phase of an object from intensity-only measurements, a problem which naturally appears in X-ray crystallography and related disciplines. We study a physically realistic setup where one can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-08 Emmanuel Candes , Xiaodong Li , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

High-dimensional measurements are often correlated which motivates their approximation by factor models. This holds also true when features are engineered via low-dimensional interactions or kernel tricks. This often results in over…

Applications · Statistics 2025-09-03 Xiaonan Zhu , Bingyan Wang , Jianqing Fan

Non-local extensions of the Standard Model with a non-locality scale $\Lambda_{NL}$ have the effect of smearing the pointlike vertices of the Standard Model. At energies significantly lower than $\Lambda_{NL}$ vertices appear pointlike,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-30 Xing-Fu Su , You-Ying Li , Rosy Nicolaidou , Min Chen , Hsin-Yeh Wu , Stathes Paganis

We present a next-to-leading order calculation of H+jet in gluon fusion including the effect of a finite top quark mass $m_t$ at large transverse momenta. Using the recently published two-loop amplitudes in the high energy expansion and our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-27 Tobias Neumann

Probabilistic graphical models (PGMs) are tools for solving complex probabilistic relationships. However, suboptimal PGM structures are primarily used in practice. This dissertation presents three contributions to the PGM literature. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Simon Streicher

We present a method for obtaining unbiased signal estimates in the presence of a significant unknown background, eliminating the need for a parametric model for the background itself. Our approach is based on a minimal set of conditions for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-26 Johannes Diehl , Jakob Knollmüller , Oliver Schulz

In this paper we tackle the problem of recovering the phase of complex linear measurements when only magnitude information is available and we control the input. We are motivated by the recent development of dedicated optics-based hardware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Sidharth Gupta , Rémi Gribonval , Laurent Daudet , Ivan Dokmanić

Destructive interference between signal and background processes poses a fundamental challenge in searches for top-philic scalar resonances, significantly reducing experimental sensitivity to well-motivated extensions of the Higgs sector.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-29 Diego A. Baron Moreno , Christoph Englert , Yvonne Peters

Large language models rely on attention mechanisms with a softmax activation. Yet the dominance of softmax over alternatives (e.g., component-wise or linear) remains poorly understood, and many theoretical works have focused on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 O. Duranthon , P. Marion , C. Boyer , B. Loureiro , L. Zdeborová

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) encounters efficiency challenges when scaling to massive knowledge bases while preserving contextual relevance. We propose Hash-RAG, a framework that integrates deep hashing techniques with systematic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jinyu Guo , Xunlei Chen , Qiyang Xia , Zhaokun Wang , Jie Ou , Libo Qin , Shunyu Yao , Wenhong Tian

It was shown recently that standard resummation of logarithms of $Q/p_T$ can be supplemented with the resummation of logarithmic contributions at large $x=Q^2/s$ in the case of a colourless final state such as Higgs produced via gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-09 Tanjona R. Rabemananjara