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Novel technologies in automated machine learning ease the complexity of algorithm selection and hyperparameter optimization. Hyperparameters are important for machine learning models as they significantly influence the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Mohamadjavad Bahmani , Radwa El Shawi , Nshan Potikyan , Sherif Sakr

In pursuit of precise and fast theory predictions for the LHC, we present an implementation of the MadNIS method in the MadGraph event generator. A series of improvements in MadNIS further enhance its efficiency and speed. We validate this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-31 Theo Heimel , Nathan Huetsch , Fabio Maltoni , Olivier Mattelaer , Tilman Plehn , Ramon Winterhalder

The Monte Carlo (MC) setups used by ATLAS to model boson$+\mathrm{jets}$ and multi-boson processes at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV in proton-proton collisions are described. Comparisons between data and several event generators are provided for key…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-09-05 Francesco Giuli

An event reweighting technique incorporated in multivariate training algorithm has been developed and tested using the Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Boosted Decision Trees (BDT). The event reweighting training are compared to that of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-11-26 Hai-Jun Yang , Tiesheng Dai , Alan Wilson , Zhengguo Zhao , Bing Zhou

Monte Carlo event generators are the central interface between theoretical calculations and experimental measurements in collider physics. Over several decades, a comprehensive and highly modular ecosystem of tools has developed around…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-18 Melissa van Beekveld , Enrico Bothmann , Andy Buckley , Christian Gütschow , Peter Skands , Ramon Winterhalder

There are many different nature-inspired algorithms in the literature, and almost all such algorithms have algorithm-dependent parameters that need to be tuned. The proper setting and parameter tuning should be carried out to maximize the…

Computation · Statistics 2025-04-29 Geethu Joy , Christian Huyck , Xin-She Yang

For certain industrial control applications an explicit function capturing the nontrivial trade-off between competing objectives in closed loop performance is not available. In such scenarios it is common practice to use the human innate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Alex. S. Ira , Chris Manzie , Iman Shames , Robert Chin , Dragan Nesic , Hayato Nakada , Takeshi Sano

Machine learning promises to deliver powerful new approaches to neutron scattering from magnetic materials. Large scale simulations provide the means to realise this with approaches including spin-wave, Landau Lifshitz, and Monte Carlo…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 Anjana M. Samarakoon , D. Alan Tennant

Precision phenomenological studies of high-multiplicity scattering processes at collider experiments present a substantial theoretical challenge and are vitally important ingredients in experimental measurements. Machine learning technology…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-20 Ryan Moodie

We make the connection between certain deep learning architectures and the renormalisation group explicit in the context of QCD by using a deep learning network to construct a toy parton shower model. The model aims to describe…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-26 James William Monk

The use of machine learning algorithms is an attractive way to produce very fast detector simulations for scattering reactions that can otherwise be computationally expensive. Here we develop a factorised approach where we deal with each…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-07-26 D. Darulis , R. Tyson , D. G. Ireland , D. I. Glazier , B. McKinnon , P. Pauli

Combinatorial samplers are algorithmic schemes devised for the approximate- and exact-size generation of large random combinatorial structures, such as context-free words, various tree-like data structures, maps, tilings, RNA molecules.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-19 Maciej Bendkowski , Olivier Bodini , Sergey Dovgal

Scalable quantum technologies will present challenges for characterizing and tuning quantum devices. This is a time-consuming activity, and as the size of quantum systems increases, this task will become intractable without the aid of…

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

Performance tuning of Database Management Systems(DBMS) is both complex and challenging as it involves identifying and altering several key performance tuning parameters. The quality of tuning and the extent of performance enhancement…

Databases · Computer Science 2010-05-07 S. F. Rodd , U. P. Kulkarni

Comparisons of experimental data with theoretical predictions for collider processes containing hadronic jets rely on shower Monte Carlo event generators to include corrections to perturbative calculations from hadronization, parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-15 S. Dooling , P. Gunnellini , F. Hautmann , H. Jung

Machine learning is a powerful method for modeling in different fields such as education. Its capability to accurately predict students' success makes it an ideal tool for decision-making tasks related to higher education. The accuracy of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Leila Zahedi , Farid Ghareh Mohammadi , Shabnam Rezapour , Matthew W. Ohland , M. Hadi Amini

Recent progress has shown that the dramatically increased number of parameters has become a major issue in tuning of multi-quantum dot devices. The complicated interactions between quantum dots and gate electrodes cause the manual tuning…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 Hanwei Liu , Baochuan Wang , Ning Wang , Zhonghai Sun , Huili Yin , Haiou Li , Gang Cao , Guoping Guo

In the day-to-day operation of a power system, the system operator repeatedly solves short-term generation planning problems. When formulating these problems the operators have to weigh the risk of costly failures against increased…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-31 Magnus Perninge

Monte Carlo simulations are an important tool in statistical physics, complex systems science, and many other fields. An increasing number of these simulations is run on parallel systems ranging from multicore desktop computers to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-10 Stephan Mertens