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We address the problem of training models with black-box and hard-to-optimize metrics by expressing the metric as a monotonic function of a small number of easy-to-optimize surrogates. We pose the training problem as an optimization over a…

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Multitask learning is widely used in practice to train a low-resource target task by augmenting it with multiple related source tasks. Yet, naively combining all the source tasks with a target task does not always improve the prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Dongyue Li , Huy L. Nguyen , Hongyang R. Zhang

NUISANCE is an open source C++ framework which facilitates detailed studies of neutrino interaction cross-section models implemented in Monte Carlo neutrino event generators. It provides a host of automated methods to perform comparisons of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-06-12 P. Stowell , C. Wret , C. Wilkinson , L. Pickering , S. Cartwright , Y. Hayato , K. Mahn , K. S. McFarland , J. Sobczyk , R. Terri , L. Thompson , M. O. Wascko , Y. Uchida

The AcerMC Monte Carlo generator is dedicated to the generation of Standard Model background processes which were recognised as critical for the searches at LHC, and generation of which was either unavailable or not straightforward so far.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-15 Borut Paul Kersevan , Elzbieta Richter-Was

Empirical risk minimization stands behind most optimization in supervised machine learning. Under this scheme, labeled data is used to approximate an expected cost (risk), and a learning algorithm updates model-defining parameters in search…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-25 James Schmidt

We present a new machine learning approach to estimate personalized treatment effects in the classical potential outcomes framework with binary outcomes. To overcome the problem that both treatment and control outcomes for the same unit are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-07 Siong Thye Goh , Cynthia Rudin

CPU simulators are useful tools for modeling CPU execution behavior. However, they suffer from inaccuracies due to the cost and complexity of setting their fine-grained parameters, such as the latencies of individual instructions. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Alex Renda , Yishen Chen , Charith Mendis , Michael Carbin

The modelling of multiple parton interactions in Monte Carlo event generators is a crucial part not only for the dressing of signal processes but also to describe data with a minimum bias on the event selection. Much work has and will be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 Johannes Bellm , Stefan Gieseke , Patrick Kirchgaesser

Negatively weighted events, which appear in the Monte Carlo (MC) simulation of particle collisions, significantly increases the computational resource requirements of current and future collider experiments. This paper introduces and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-13 Prasanth Shyamsundar

While traditional machine learning can effectively tackle a wide range of problems, it primarily operates within a closed-world setting, which presents limitations when dealing with streaming data. As a solution, incremental learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hai-Long Sun , Da-Wei Zhou , De-Chuan Zhan , Han-Jia Ye

THERMINATOR is a Monte Carlo event generator designed for studying of particle production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions performed at such experimental facilities as the SPS, RHIC, or LHC. The program implements thermal models of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Adam Kisiel , Tomasz Taluc , Wojciech Broniowski , Wojciech Florkowski

Monte Carlo event generators are an essential tool for data analysis in collider physics. To include subleading quantum corrections, these generators often need to produce negative weight events, which leads to statistical dilution of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-21 Benjamin Nachman , Jesse Thaler

In this work we propose an adaptive multilevel version of subset simulation to estimate the probability of rare events for complex physical systems. Given a sequence of nested failure domains of increasing size, the rare event probability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Daniel Elfverson , Robert Scheichl , Simon Weissmann , F. Alejandro DiazDelaO

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can successfully approximate a probability distribution and produce realistic samples. However, open questions such as sufficient convergence conditions and mode collapse still persist. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Thang Doan , Joao Monteiro , Isabela Albuquerque , Bogdan Mazoure , Audrey Durand , Joelle Pineau , R Devon Hjelm

Event generators simulate particle interactions using Monte Carlo techniques, providing the primary connection between experiment and theory in experimental high energy physics. These software packages, which are the first step in the…

This paper introduces Smart Predict Then Control (SPC), a control aware refinement procedure for model based control. SPC refines a prediction oriented model by optimizing a surrogate objective that evaluates candidate models through the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Jiachen Li , Shihao Li , Dongmei Chen

It is expensive to evaluate the results of Machine Translation(MT), which usually requires manual translation as a reference. Machine Translation Quality Estimation (QE) is a task of predicting the quality of machine translations without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Lei Lin

This article provides an introduction to the principles of particle physics event generators that are based on the Monte Carlo method. Following some preliminaries, instructions on how to build a basic parton-level Monte Carlo event…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-16 Andreas Papaefstathiou

The Monte Carlo program {\tt WWGENPV}, designed for computing distributions and generating events for four-fermion production in $e^+ e^- $ collisions, is described. The new version, 2.0, includes the full set of the electroweak (EW)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 D. G. Charlton , G. Montagna , O. Nicrosini , F. Piccinini

This article presents a framework for generating optimisation models using a pre-trained generative transformer. The framework involves specifying the features that the optimisation model should have and using a language model to generate…

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