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Decays of Higgs boson-like particles into multileptons is a well-motivated process for investigating physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). A unique feature of this final state is the precision with which the SM is known. As a result,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-01 Katarzyna Krzyżańska , Benjamin Nachman

One of the major objectives of the experimental programs at the LHC is the discovery of new physics. This requires the identification of rare signals in immense backgrounds. Using machine learning algorithms greatly enhances our ability to…

This paper explores different strategies for enhancing sensitivity to new heavy resonances that decay into two or more Higgs bosons. This is achieved using two neural network architectures: an unsupervised autoencoder for anomaly detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-13 Sergei V. Chekanov , Wasikul Islam , Nicholas Luongo

A new form of variational autoencoder (VAE) is developed, in which the joint distribution of data and codes is considered in two (symmetric) forms: ($i$) from observed data fed through the encoder to yield codes, and ($ii$) from latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Yunchen Pu , Weiyao Wang , Ricardo Henao , Liqun Chen , Zhe Gan , Chunyuan Li , Lawrence Carin

A method for unsupervised contextual anomaly detection is proposed using a cross-linked pair of Variational Auto-Encoders for assigning a normality score to an observation. The method enables a distinct separation of contextual from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-02 Yaniv Shulman

Anomaly Detection is becoming increasingly popular within the experimental physics community. At experiments such as the Large Hadron Collider, anomaly detection is at the forefront of finding new physics beyond the Standard Model. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-20 C. Fanelli , J. Giroux , Z. Papandreou

This paper proposes a new way to do event generation and analysis in searches for new physics at the LHC. An abstract notation is used to describe the new particles on a level which better corresponds to detector resolution of LHC…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-03-12 Claus Horn

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) is an exciting tool that has received significant recent attention due in part to advances in quantum computing hardware. While there is currently no formal guarantee that QML is superior to classical ML for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-22 Sulaiman Alvi , Christian Bauer , Benjamin Nachman

Reliably detecting anomalies in a given set of images is a task of high practical relevance for visual quality inspection, surveillance, or medical image analysis. Autoencoder neural networks learn to reconstruct normal images, and hence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Laura Beggel , Michael Pfeiffer , Bernd Bischl

The phase space of hadron collider events spans hundreds of dimensions, generating an intricate geometry that we are just starting to explore. The number of possible new physics signals is exponential in the number of dimensions and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-03 Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo , Alfredo Glioti , Gabriele Rigo , Alessandro Valenti

Using deep neural networks for identifying physics objects at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has become a powerful alternative approach in recent years. After successful training of deep neural networks, examining the trained networks not…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-23 Taoli Cheng

This paper describes a strategy for a general search used by the ATLAS Collaboration to find potential indications of new physics. Events are classified according to their final state into many event classes. For each event class an…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-02-19 ATLAS Collaboration

The Large Hadron Electron Collider (LHeC) project is the proposal to use the existing LHC proton/ion beams and construct a new electron beam line to perform high-energy electron-proton/ion collisions. In this talk, we consider some of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-02 Ilkka Helenius , Hannu Paukkunen , Néstor Armesto

The search for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) at collider experiments requires model-independent strategies to avoid missing possible discoveries of unexpected signals. Anomaly detection (AD) techniques offer a promising approach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-05 Fernando Abreu de Souza , Maura Barros , Nuno Filipe Castro , Miguel Crispim Romão , Céu Neiva , Rute Pedro

We propose a new scientific application of unsupervised learning techniques to boost our ability to search for new phenomena in data, by detecting discrepancies between two datasets. These could be, for example, a simulated standard-model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-11 Andrea De Simone , Thomas Jacques

This document summarises proposed searches for new physics accessible in the heavy-ion mode at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), both through hadronic and ultraperipheral $\gamma\gamma$ interactions, and that have a competitive or,…

Autoencoders receive latent models of input data. It was shown in recent works that they also estimate probability density functions of the input. This fact makes using the Bayesian decision theory possible. If we obtain latent models of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Vasily Morzhakov

Combining the increasing availability and abundance of healthcare data and the current advances in machine learning methods have created renewed opportunities to improve clinical decision support systems. However, in healthcare risk…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-17 Zidi Xiu , Chenyang Tao , Michael Gao , Connor Davis , Benjamin A. Goldstein , Ricardo Henao

Unsupervised feature extraction algorithms form one of the most important building blocks in machine learning systems. These algorithms are often adapted to the event-based domain to perform online learning in neuromorphic hardware.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Saeed Afshar , Ying Xu , Jonathan Tapson , André van Schaik , Gregory Cohen

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are well-established as a principled approach to probabilistic unsupervised learning with neural networks. Typically, an encoder network defines the parameters of a Gaussian distributed latent space from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Alan Jeffares , Liyuan Liu