English
Related papers

Related papers: Dealing with Nuisance Parameters using Machine Lea…

200 papers

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

Recent research has shown the existence of significant redundancy in large Transformer models. One can prune the redundant parameters without significantly sacrificing the generalization performance. However, we question whether the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Chen Liang , Haoming Jiang , Simiao Zuo , Pengcheng He , Xiaodong Liu , Jianfeng Gao , Weizhu Chen , Tuo Zhao

Since deep neural networks were developed, they have made huge contributions to everyday lives. Machine learning provides more rational advice than humans are capable of in almost every aspect of daily life. However, despite this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Tong Yu , Hong Zhu

Across the field of education research there has been an increased focus on the development, critique, and evaluation of statistical methods and data usage due to recently created, very large data sets and machine learning techniques. In…

Physics Education · Physics 2021-06-22 John M. Aiken , Riccardo De Bin , H. J. Lewandowski , Marcos D. Caballero

Machine learning has been used in high energy physics for a long time, primarily at the analysis level with supervised classification. Quantum computing was postulated in the early 1980s as way to perform computations that would not be…

The quality of an induced model by a learning algorithm is dependent on the quality of the training data and the hyper-parameters supplied to the learning algorithm. Prior work has shown that improving the quality of the training data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-14 Michael R. Smith , Tony Martinez , Christophe Giraud-Carrier

Machine learning plays a crucial role in enhancing and accelerating the search for new fundamental physics. We review the state of machine learning methods and applications for new physics searches in the context of terrestrial high energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-08 Georgia Karagiorgi , Gregor Kasieczka , Scott Kravitz , Benjamin Nachman , David Shih

Modern multilingual models are trained on concatenated text from multiple languages in hopes of conferring benefits to each (positive transfer), with the most pronounced benefits accruing to low-resource languages. However, recent work has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Zirui Wang , Zachary C. Lipton , Yulia Tsvetkov

Machine Learning is a powerful tool to reveal and exploit correlations in a multi-dimensional parameter space. Making predictions from such correlations is a highly non-trivial task, in particular when the details of the underlying dynamics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-30 Christoph Englert , Peter Galler , Philip Harris , Michael Spannowsky

Machine learning has played an important role in the analysis of high-energy physics data for decades. The emergence of deep learning in 2012 allowed for machine learning tools which could adeptly handle higher-dimensional and more complex…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-11-14 Dan Guest , Kyle Cranmer , Daniel Whiteson

Machine Learning (ML) is one of the most exciting and dynamic areas of modern research and application. The purpose of this review is to provide an introduction to the core concepts and tools of machine learning in a manner easily…

Hyperparameter tuning is critical to the success of federated learning applications. Unfortunately, appropriately selecting hyperparameters is challenging in federated networks. Issues of scale, privacy, and heterogeneity introduce noise in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Kevin Kuo , Pratiksha Thaker , Mikhail Khodak , John Nguyen , Daniel Jiang , Ameet Talwalkar , Virginia Smith

Signal-background classification is a central problem in High-Energy Physics (HEP), that plays a major role for the discovery of new fundamental particles. A recent method -- the Parametric Neural Network (pNN) -- leverages multiple signal…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-15 Luca Anzalone , Tommaso Diotalevi , Daniele Bonacorsi

Machine learning models often inherit biases from historical data, raising critical concerns about fairness and accountability. Conventional fairness interventions typically require access to sensitive attributes like gender or race, but…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-21 Yixiao Lin , James Booth

Parameter estimation remains a challenging task across many areas of engineering. Because data acquisition can often be costly, limited, or prone to inaccuracies (noise, uncertainty) it is crucial to identify sensor configurations that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-20 Georgios Venianakis , Constantinos Theodoropoulos , Michail Kavousanakis

Physical symmetries provide a strong inductive bias for constructing functions to analyze data. In particular, this bias may improve robustness, data efficiency, and interpretability of machine learning models. However, building machine…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-05 Pradyun Hebbar , Thandikire Madula , Vinicius Mikuni , Benjamin Nachman , Nadav Outmezguine , Inbar Savoray

The macroscopic properties of materials that we observe and exploit in engineering application result from complex interactions between physics at multiple length and time scales: electronic, atomistic, defects, domains etc. Multiscale…

Complex numerical weather prediction models incorporate a variety of physical processes, each described by multiple alternative physical schemes with specific parameters. The selection of the physical schemes and the choice of the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Azam Moosavi , Vishwas Rao , Adrian Sandu

Machine learning offers an exciting opportunity to improve the calibration of nearly all reconstructed objects in high-energy physics detectors. However, machine learning approaches often depend on the spectra of examples used during…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-02 Rikab Gambhir , Benjamin Nachman , Jesse Thaler

This paper surveys the machine learning literature and presents in an optimization framework several commonly used machine learning approaches. Particularly, mathematical optimization models are presented for regression, classification,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Claudio Gambella , Bissan Ghaddar , Joe Naoum-Sawaya