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Machine learning techniques are increasingly being applied in high-energy nuclear physics data analysis thanks to their outstanding performance. One key challenge in such applications is the construction of training samples that can…

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These lecture notes for a graduate class present the regularization theory for linear and nonlinear ill-posed operator equations in Hilbert spaces. Covered are the general framework of regularization methods and their analysis via spectral…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Christian Clason

This chapter is a collection of techniques, warnings, facts and ideas that are sometimes regarded as theoretical curiosities in high-energy physics but have important consequences in condensed matter physics. In particular, we describe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Adolfo G. Grushin

In the context of the energy transition, with increasing integration of renewable sources and cross-border electricity exchanges, power grids are encountering greater uncertainty and operational risk. Maintaining grid stability under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Milad Leyli-abadi , Antoine Marot , Jérôme Picault

This study takes advantage of recent advances in machine learning to establish a physics-based data analytic platform for distributed reconstruction of mechanical properties in layered components from full waveform data. In this vein, two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-20 Yang Xu , Fatemeh Pourahmadian , Jian Song , Conglin Wang

Regularization is a popular technique to solve the overfitting problem of machine learning algorithms. Most regularization technique relies on parameter selection of the regularization coefficient. Plug-in method and cross-validation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Hao Wang

Multi-energy CT takes advantage of the non-linearly varying attenuation properties of elemental media with respect to energy, enabling more precise material identification than single-energy CT. The increased precision comes with the cost…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-02-14 Jussi Toivanen , Alexander Meaney , Samuli Siltanen , Ville Kolehmainen

Using a structure-based coarse-grained model of proteins, we study the mechanism of unfolding of knotted proteins through heating. We find that the dominant mechanisms of unfolding depend on the temperature applied and are generally…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2017-01-23 Yani Zhao , Mateusz Chwastyk , Marek Cieplak

We propose a physics-based regularization technique for function learning, inspired by statistical mechanics. By drawing an analogy between optimizing the parameters of an interpolator and minimizing the energy of a system, we introduce…

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High-performance machine learning tools in particle physics rest on two complementary directions: encoding symmetries explicitly in the architecture, and implicitly learning the structure of the data through large-scale (pre-) training. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-23 Victor Breso-Pla , Kevin Greif , Vinicius Mikuni , Benjamin Nachman , Tilman Plehn , Tanvi Wamorkar , Daniel Whiteson

The Tianlai cylinder pathfinder is a radio interferometer array to test 21 cm intensity mapping techniques in the post-reionization era. It works in passive drift scan mode to survey the sky visible in the northern hemisphere. To deal with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-10 Kaifeng Yu , Shifan Zuo , Fengquan Wu , Yougang Wang , Xuelei Chen

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-17 Christopher W. Murphy

In this work we consider the problem of finding optimal regularization parameters for general-form Tikhonov regularization using training data. We formulate the general-form Tikhonov solution as a spectral filtered solution using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-09 Julianne Chung , Malena I. Español , Tuan Nguyen

A new Hardy space Hardy space approach of Dirichlet type problem based on Tikhonov regularization and Reproducing Hilbert kernel space is discussed in this paper, which turns out to be a typical extremal problem located on the upper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Zhulin Liu , C. L. Philip Chen

The determination of transverse single-spin asymmetries in experiments involving polarized targets and/or beams may encounter challenges when (1) the magnitude of the polarization varies greatly with time, (2) the polarization magnitude is…

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In comparing the behavior of an energy spectrum to the predictions of random matrix theory one must transform the spectrum such that the averaged level spacing is constant, a procedure known as unfolding. Once energy spectrums belong to an…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-06-14 Richard Berkovits

Energy system models involve various input data sets representing the generation, consumption and transport infrastructure of electricity. Especially energy system models with a focus on the transmission grid require time series of…

Machine learning techniques are becoming an integral component of data analysis in High Energy Physics (HEP). These tools provide a significant improvement in sensitivity over traditional analyses by exploiting subtle patterns in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-10-04 Aishik Ghosh , Benjamin Nachman , Daniel Whiteson

A method to perform unfolding with Gaussian processes (GPs) is presented. Using Bayesian regression, we define an estimator for the underlying truth distribution as the mode of the posterior. We show that in the case where the bin contents…

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Regularized kernel methods such as support vector machines (SVM) and support vector regression (SVR) constitute a broad and flexible class of methods which are theoretically well investigated and commonly used in nonparametric…

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