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Machine learning is becoming a new paradigm for scientific research in various research fields due to its exciting and powerful capability of modeling tools used for big-data processing task. In this mini-review, we first briefly introduce…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-01-18 Wanbing He , Qingfeng Li , Yugang Ma , Zhongming Niu , Junchen Pei , Yingxun Zhang

The recent global analyses of the nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) lend support to the validity of the factorization theorem of QCD in high-energy processes involving bound nucleons. With a special attention on our latest…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-22 Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado , Kari J. Eskola

We discuss the determination of the parton substructure of hadrons by casting it as a peculiar form of pattern recognition problem in which the pattern is a probability distribution, and we present the way this problem has been tackled and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-31 Stefano Forte , Stefano Carrazza

Deep Learning methods have seen a wide range of successful applications across different industries. Up until now, applications to physical simulations such as CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics), have been limited to simple test-cases of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Giuseppe Bruni , Sepehr Maleki , Senthil K. Krishnababu

I review recent progress in the NNPDF global analyses of parton distributions (PDFs) focusing on developments contributing to its new upcoming release: NNPDF4.0. The NNPDF4.0 determination represents unprecedented progress in three main…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-20 Juan Rojo

Machine learning assumes a pivotal role in our data-driven world. The increasing scale of models and datasets necessitates quick and reliable algorithms for model training. This dissertation investigates adaptivity in machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Slavomír Hanzely

Client heterogeneity poses significant challenges to the performance of Quantum Federated Learning (QFL). To overcome these limitations, we propose a new approach leveraging deep unfolding, which enables clients to autonomously optimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Shanika Iroshi Nanayakkara , Shiva Raj Pokhrel

The many ways in which machine and deep learning are transforming the analysis and simulation of data in particle physics are reviewed. The main methods based on boosted decision trees and various types of neural networks are introduced,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-05-07 Dimitri Bourilkov

We review the current status of spin-averaged and spin-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon. After presenting the formalism used to fit PDFs in modern global data analyses, we discuss constraints placed on the PDFs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 P. Jimenez-Delgado , W. Melnitchouk , J. F. Owens

We perform the next-to-next-leading-order (NNLO) QCD global fit of PDFs using inclusive charged-lepton and neutrino DIS data down to Q = 1 GeV. We also consider the data on neutrino-nucleon dimuon production, that allows us to disentangle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-10-28 S. Alekhin , S. Kulagin , R. Petti

Federated machine learning is a versatile and flexible tool to utilize distributed data from different sources, especially when communication technology develops rapidly and an unprecedented amount of data could be collected on mobile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Tianyi Zhang , Shirui Zhang , Ziwei Chen , Dianbo Liu

Machine learning has become an essential tool in jet physics. Due to their complex, high-dimensional nature, jets can be explored holistically by neural networks in ways that are not possible manually. However, innovations in all areas of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-27 Vinicius Mikuni , Benjamin Nachman

This review gives an overview on the research of algorithms for dynamical fermions used in large scale lattice QCD simulations. First a short overview on the state-of-the-art of ensemble generation at the physical point is given. Followed…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-02-20 Jacob Finkenrath

The choice of data that enters a global QCD analysis can have a substantial impact on the resulting parton distributions and their predictions for collider observables. One of the main reasons for this has to do with the possible presence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-11 Juan Rojo

In global PDF analyses, parton distribution functions (PDFs) are parametrised at a fixed input scale $Q_0$ and evolved to higher scales using the DGLAP equations. Since QCD evolution is fully determined within perturbation theory, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-13 Ivan A. Godino , Eva D. Z. Groenendijk , Tanjona R. Rabemananjara

We present a determination of the parton distributions of the nucleon from a global set of hard scattering data using the NNPDF methodology at LO and NNLO in perturbative QCD, thereby generalizing to these orders the NNPDF2.1 NLO parton…

Searches for new physics will increasingly depend on identifying deviations from precision Standard Model (SM) predictions. Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) will necessarily play a central role in this endeavor as it provides the framework for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Aleksander Kusina , Florian Lyonnet , Fredrick I. Olness , Ingo Schienbein

We present a determination of the strong coupling $\alpha_s(m_Z)$ from a global dataset including both fixed-target and collider data from deep-inelastic scattering and a variety of hadronic processes, with a simultaneous determination of…

Unfolding in high energy physics represents the correction of measured spectra in data for the finite detector efficiency, acceptance, and resolution from the detector to particle level. Recent machine learning approaches provide unfolding…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-08-04 Petr Baron

Deep learning models are defined in terms of a large number of hyperparameters, such as network architectures and optimiser settings. These hyperparameters must be determined separately from the model parameters such as network weights, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-22 Juan Cruz-Martinez , Aaron Jansen , Gijs van Oord , Tanjona R. Rabemananjara , Carlos M. R. Rocha , Juan Rojo , Roy Stegeman