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Jet flavour tagging is crucial in experimental high-energy physics. A tagging algorithm, DeepJetTransformer, is presented, which exploits a transformer-based neural network that is substantially faster to train than state-of-the-art graph…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-02-11 Freya Blekman , Florencia Canelli , Alexandre De Moor , Kunal Gautam , Armin Ilg , Anna Macchiolo , Eduardo Ploerer

We compare the performance of a convolutional neural network (CNN) trained on jet images with dense neural networks (DNNs) trained on n-subjettiness variables to study the distinguishing power of these two separate techniques applied to top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-25 Liam Moore , Karl Nordström , Sreedevi Varma , Malcolm Fairbairn

Building on the notion of a particle physics detector as a camera and the collimated streams of high energy particles, or jets, it measures as an image, we investigate the potential of machine learning techniques based on deep learning…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-24 Luke de Oliveira , Michael Kagan , Lester Mackey , Benjamin Nachman , Ariel Schwartzman

Artificial intelligence offers the potential to automate challenging data-processing tasks in collider physics. To establish its prospects, we explore to what extent deep learning with convolutional neural networks can discriminate quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-06 Patrick T. Komiske , Eric M. Metodiev , Matthew D. Schwartz

Bayesian neural networks allow us to keep track of uncertainties, for example in top tagging, by learning a tagger output together with an error band. We illustrate the main features of Bayesian versions of established deep-learning…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-22 Sven Bollweg , Manuel Haussmann , Gregor Kasieczka , Michel Luchmann , Tilman Plehn , Jennifer Thompson

Recent literature on deep neural networks for tagging of highly energetic jets resulting from top quark decays has focused on image based techniques or multivariate approaches using high-level jet substructure variables. Here, a sequential…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-10 Jannicke Pearkes , Wojciech Fedorko , Alison Lister , Colin Gay

The energy and mass measurements of jets are crucial tasks for the Large Hadron Collider experiments. This paper presents a new calibration method to simultaneously calibrate these quantities for large-radius jets measured with the ATLAS…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-09-06 ATLAS Collaboration

The separation of $b$-quark initiated jets from those coming from lighter quark flavors ($b$-tagging) is a fundamental tool for the ATLAS physics program at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The most powerful $b$-tagging algorithms combine…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-11-27 Michela Paganini

Machine learning methods incorporating deep neural networks have been the subject of recent proposals for new hadronic resonance taggers. These methods require training on a dataset produced by an event generator where the true class labels…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-25 James Barnard , Edmund Noel Dawe , Matthew J. Dolan , Nina Rajcic

Machine Learning algorithms have played an important role in hadronic jet classification problems. The large variety of models applied to Large Hadron Collider data has demonstrated that there is still room for improvement. In this context…

We apply advanced machine learning techniques to two challenging jet classification problems at the LHC. The first is strange-quark tagging, in particular distinguishing strange-quark jets from down-quark jets. The second, which we term…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-25 Yevgeny Kats , Edo Ofir

Tensor Networks, a numerical tool originally designed for simulating quantum many-body systems, have recently been applied to solve Machine Learning problems. Exploiting a tree tensor network, we apply a quantum-inspired machine learning…

The identification of boosted heavy particles such as top quarks or vector bosons is one of the key problems arising in experimental studies at the Large Hadron Collider. In this article, we introduce LundNet, a novel jet tagging method…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-12 Frédéric A. Dreyer , Huilin Qu

The challenging environment of real-time data processing systems at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) strictly limits the computational complexity of algorithms that can be deployed. For deep learning models, this implies that only models…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-27 Ryan Liu , Abhijith Gandrakota , Jennifer Ngadiuba , Maria Spiropulu , Jean-Roch Vlimant

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

Sequence-based modeling broadly refers to algorithms that act on data that is represented as an ordered set of input elements. In particular, Machine Learning algorithms with sequences as inputs have seen successfull applications to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-02-12 Rafael Teixeira de Lima

This chapter provides an introduction to collider phenomenology, explaining how theoretical concepts are translated into experimental analyses at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Beginning with the principles of collider operation and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-07 Michael Spannowsky

A key question for machine learning approaches in particle physics is how to best represent and learn from collider events. As an event is intrinsically a variable-length unordered set of particles, we build upon recent machine learning…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-17 Patrick T. Komiske , Eric M. Metodiev , Jesse Thaler

We apply object detection techniques based on deep convolutional blocks to end-to-end jet identification and reconstruction tasks encountered at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Collision events produced at the LHC and represented as…

Jet substructure provides one of the most exciting new approaches for searching for physics in and beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider. Modern jet substructure searches are often performed with Neural Network (NN) taggers…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-09 Arianna Garcia Caffaro , Ian Moult , Chase Shimmin