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We present the software framework underlying the NNPDF4.0 global determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs). The code is released under an open source licence and is accompanied by extensive documentation and examples. The code…

We present a new regression model for the determination of parton distribution functions (PDF) using techniques inspired from deep learning projects. In the context of the NNPDF methodology, we implement a new efficient computing framework…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Stefano Carrazza , Juan Cruz-Martinez

Modern analysis on parton distribution functions (PDFs) requires calculations of the log-likelihood functions from thousands of experimental data points, and scans of multi-dimensional parameter space with tens of degrees of freedom. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-24 DianYu Liu , ChuanLe Sun , Jun Gao

In this contribution we present a status report on the recent progress towards an analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) using the NNPDF methodology. We discuss how the NNPDF fitting approach can be extended to account…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-15 Rabah Abdul Khalek , Jacob J. Ethier , Juan Rojo

Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) play a central role in describing experimental data at colliders and provide insight into the structure of nucleons. As the LHC enters an era of high-precision measurements, a robust PDF determination…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-21 Amedeo Chiefa , Luigi Del Debbio , Richard Kenway

We present new sets of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) at next-to-leading order (NLO) and next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). Our analyses are based on deeply inelastic scattering data with charged-lepton and neutrino beams…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-17 Marina Walt , Ilkka Helenius , Werner Vogelsang

In recent years, machine learning has emerged as a powerful computational tool and novel problem-solving perspective for physics, offering new avenues for studying strongly interacting QCD matter properties under extreme conditions. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-05 Kai Zhou , Lingxiao Wang , Long-Gang Pang , Shuzhe Shi

Perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD) ceases to be applicable at low interaction energies due to the rapid increase of the strong coupling. In that limit, the non-perturbative regime determines the properties of quarks and gluons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-06 Rabah Abdul Khalek

Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) model the parton content of the proton. Among the many collaborations which focus on PDF determination, NNPDF pioneered the use of Neural Networks to model the probability of finding partons (quarks and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 Juan M Cruz-Martinez , Stefano Carrazza , Roy Stegeman

We present three new sets of next-to-leading order parton distribution functions (PDFs) determined by global fits to a wide variety of data for hard scattering processes. The analysis includes target mass and higher twist corrections needed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-15 J. F. Owens , A. Accardi , W. Melnitchouk

We present a determination of the parton distributions of the nucleon from a global set of hard scattering data using the NNPDF methodology: NNPDF2.0. Experimental data include deep-inelastic scattering with the combined HERA-I dataset,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Richard D. Ball , Luigi Del Debbio , Stefano Forte , Alberto Guffanti , Jose I. Latorre , Juan Rojo , Maria Ubiali

Recent times are witnessing rapid development in machine learning algorithm systems, especially in reinforcement learning, natural language processing, computer and robot vision, image processing, speech, and emotional processing and…

A new QCD analysis for nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) at next-to-leading order (NLO) and next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) is presented. The framework of the analysis, including the form of the parameterization as well as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-15 Marina Walt , Ilkka Helenius , Werner Vogelsang

Machine learning algorithms have recently emerged as a tool to generate force fields which display accuracies approaching the ones of the ab-initio calculations they are trained on, but are much faster to compute. The enhanced computational…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Claudio Zeni , Kevin Rossi , Aldo Glielmo , Francesca Baletto

Representing the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton and other hadrons through flexible, high-fidelity parametrizations has been a long-standing goal of particle physics phenomenology. This is particularly true since the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-21 Brandon Kriesten , T. J. Hobbs

Many aspects of the study of protein folding and dynamics have been affected by the recent advances in machine learning. Methods for the prediction of protein structures from their sequences are now heavily based on machine learning tools.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-11-25 Frank Noé , Gianni De Fabritiis , Cecilia Clementi

Machine learning is essentially the sciences of playing with data. An adaptive data selection strategy, enabling to dynamically choose different data at various training stages, can reach a more effective model in a more efficient way. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Yang Fan , Fei Tian , Tao Qin , Jiang Bian , Tie-Yan Liu

Deep neural networks have rightfully won the place of one of the most accurate analysis tools in high energy physics. In this paper we will cover several methods of improving the performance of a deep neural network in a classification task…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-09-20 Lev Dudko , Petr Volkov , Georgii Vorotnikov , Andrei Zaborenko

Machine Learning with deep neural networks has transformed computational approaches to scientific and engineering problems. Central to many of these advancements are precisely tuned neural architectures that are tailored to the domains in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 Mathias Weiden , Justin Kalloor , John Kubiatowicz , Costin Iancu

These lecture notes provide a comprehensive framework for performing global statistical fits in high-energy physics using modern Machine Learning (ML) surrogates. We begin by reviewing the statistical foundations of model building,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-10 Jorge Alda
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