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Plans to upgrade the LHC after approximately 10 years of operation are currently being considered at CERN. A tenfold increase in luminosity delivered to the experiments is envisaged in the so-called Super LHC (SLHC). This will undoubtedly…
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A major computational bottleneck in modern High Energy Physics event generators arises from the integration of the matrix element, which requires repeated evaluations at different phase-space points to cover all possible initial- and…
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Much of the engineering behind current wireless systems has focused on designing an efficient and high-throughput downlink to support human-centric communication such as video streaming and internet browsing. This paper looks ahead to…
Deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to security risks due to the inherent transferable nature of adversarial examples. Despite the success of recent generative model-based attacks demonstrating strong transferability, it still…
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