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Hyperbolic geometry is gaining traction in machine learning for its effectiveness at capturing hierarchical structures in real-world data. Hyperbolic spaces, where neighborhoods grow exponentially, offer substantial advantages and…

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This paper describes a method for detecting a rare top quark decay into a charm quark and a Higgs boson (H), which decays further into b quarks, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and introduces a tagging algorithm to identify boosted tops…

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This paper proposes a sparse Bayesian treatment of deep neural networks (DNNs) for system identification. Although DNNs show impressive approximation ability in various fields, several challenges still exist for system identification…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-02 Hongpeng Zhou , Chahine Ibrahim , Wei Xing Zheng , Wei Pan

Decision trees are machine learning models commonly used in various application scenarios. In the era of big data, traditional decision tree induction algorithms are not suitable for learning large-scale datasets due to their stringent data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Zhe Lin , Sharad Sinha , Wei Zhang

As machine learning algorithms become increasingly sophisticated to exploit subtle features of the data, they often become more dependent on simulations. This paper presents a new approach called weakly supervised classification in which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-04 Lucio Mwinmaarong Dery , Benjamin Nachman , Francesco Rubbo , Ariel Schwartzman

We study the tagging of Higgs exotic decay signals using different types of deep neural networks (DNNs), focusing on the $W^\pm h$ associated production channel followed by Higgs decaying into $n$ $b$-quarks with $n=4$, 6 and 8. All the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-23 Sunghoon Jung , Zhen Liu , Lian-Tao Wang , Ke-Pan Xie

Decision trees (DTs) and their random forest (RF) extensions are workhorses of classification and regression in Euclidean spaces. However, algorithms for learning in non-Euclidean spaces are still limited. We extend DT and RF algorithms to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Philippe Chlenski , Quentin Chu , Raiyan R. Khan , Kaizhu Du , Antonio Khalil Moretti , Itsik Pe'er

We build a deep neural network based on the Mask R-CNN framework to detect the Higgs jets and top quark jets in any event image. We propose an algorithm to assign the top quark final states at the ground truth level so that the network can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-06 Sang Kwan Choi , Jinmian Li , Cong Zhang , Rao Zhang

Gradient boosted decision trees are a popular machine learning technique, in part because of their ability to give good accuracy with small models. We describe two extensions to the standard tree boosting algorithm designed to increase this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-01 Natalia Ponomareva , Thomas Colthurst , Gilbert Hendry , Salem Haykal , Soroush Radpour

Following the discovery of the brightest high-energy neutrino sources in the sky, the further detection of fainter sources is more challenging. A natural solution is to combine fainter source candidates, and instead of individual…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 I. Bartos , M. Ackermann , M. Kowalski

Gradient Boosting Decision Tree (GBDT) has achieved remarkable success in a wide variety of applications. The split finding algorithm, which determines the tree construction process, is one of the most crucial components of GBDT. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Zheyu Zhang , Tianping Zhang , Jian Li

Training features used to analyse physical processes are often highly correlated and determining which ones are most important for the classification is a non-trivial tasks. For the use case of a search for a top-quark pair produced in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-06-14 Paul Glaysher , Judith M. Katzy , Sitong An

We deploy an advanced Machine Learning (ML) environment, leveraging a multi-scale cross-attention encoder for event classification, towards the identification of the $gg\to H\to hh\to b\bar b b\bar b$ process at the High Luminosity Large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-16 A. Hammad , S. Moretti , M. Nojiri

GAPS is an international balloon-borne project that contributes to solving the dark-matter mystery through a highly sensitive survey of cosmic-ray antiparticles, especially undiscovered antideuterons. To achieve a sufficient sensitivity to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-12 Takuya Wada , Hideyuki Fuke , Yuki Shimizu , Tetsuya Yoshida

With the great promise of deep learning, discoveries of new particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may be imminent. Following the discovery of a new Beyond the Standard model particle in an all-hadronic channel, deep learning can also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-30 Jakub Filipek , Shih-Chieh Hsu , John Kruper , Kirtimaan Mohan , Benjamin Nachman

Random forest is widely exploited as an ensemble learning method. In many practical applications, however, there is still a significant challenge to learn from imbalanced data. To alleviate this limitation, we propose a deep dynamic boosted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Haixin Wang , Xingzhang Ren , Jinan Sun , Wei Ye , Long Chen , Muzhi Yu , Shikun Zhang

Gradient boosted decision trees are some of the most popular algorithms in applied machine learning. They are a flexible and powerful tool that can robustly fit to any tabular dataset in a scalable and computationally efficient way. One of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Daniel de Marchi , Matthew Welch , Michael Kosorok

With the development of technology, the chemical production process is becoming increasingly complex and large-scale, making fault detection particularly important. However, current detective methods struggle to address the complexities of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Ming Lu , Zhen Gao , Ying Zou , Zuguo Chen , Pei Li

Metagenomic studies have increasingly utilized sequencing technologies in order to analyze DNA fragments found in environmental samples.One important step in this analysis is the taxonomic classification of the DNA fragments. Conventional…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-11 Andreas Georgiou , Vincent Fortuin , Harun Mustafa , Gunnar Rätsch