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Autoencoder networks, trained only on QCD jets, can be used to search for anomalies in jet-substructure. We show how, based either on images or on 4-vectors, they identify jets from decays of arbitrary heavy resonances. To control the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-13 Theo Heimel , Gregor Kasieczka , Tilman Plehn , Jennifer M Thompson

Autoencoders are widely used in machine learning applications, in particular for anomaly detection. Hence, they have been introduced in high energy physics as a promising tool for model-independent new physics searches. We scrutinize the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-15 Thorben Finke , Michael Krämer , Alessandro Morandini , Alexander Mück , Ivan Oleksiyuk

There is an increased interest in model agnostic search strategies for physics beyond the standard model at the Large Hadron Collider. We introduce a Deep Set Variational Autoencoder and present results on the Dark Machines Anomaly Score…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-02 Bryan Ostdiek

Anomalies in the domain of autonomous driving are a major hindrance to the large-scale deployment of autonomous vehicles. In this work, we focus on high-resolution camera data from urban scenes that include anomalies of various types and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Daniel Bogdoll , Svetlana Pavlitska , Simon Klaus , J. Marius Zöllner

The joint optimization of the reconstruction and classification error is a hard non convex problem, especially when a non linear mapping is utilized. In order to overcome this obstacle, a novel optimization strategy is proposed, in which a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Ioannis A. Nellas , Sotiris K. Tasoulis , Vassilis P. Plagianakos , Spiros V. Georgakopoulos

Detectors in next-generation high-energy physics experiments face several daunting requirements, such as high data rates, damaging radiation exposure, and stringent constraints on power, space, and latency. To address these challenges,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-08-18 Alexander Yue , Haoyi Jia , Julia Gonski

Reconstruction-based approaches to anomaly detection tend to fall short when applied to complex datasets with target classes that possess high inter-class variance. Similar to the idea of self-taught learning used in transfer learning, many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Muhammad S. Battikh , Artem A. Lenskiy

In this book chapter, we discuss recent advances in data-driven approaches for inverse problems. In particular, we focus on the \emph{paired autoencoder} framework, which has proven to be a powerful tool for solving inverse problems in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Matthias Chung , Bas Peters , Michael Solomon

This study explores the application of autoencoder-based machine learning techniques for anomaly detection to identify exoplanet atmospheres with unconventional chemical signatures using a low-dimensional data representation. We use the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Alexander Roman , Emilie Panek , Roy T. Forestano , Eyup B. Unlu , Katia Matcheva , Konstantin T. Matchev

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are essential tools in end-to-end representation learning. However, the sequential text generation common pitfall with VAEs is that the model tends to ignore latent variables with a strong auto-regressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Yang Zhao , Ping Yu , Suchismit Mahapatra , Qinliang Su , Changyou Chen

Anomaly detection in high-energy physics is essential for identifying new physics beyond the Standard Model. Autoencoders provide a signal-agnostic approach but are limited by the topology of their latent space. This work explores…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-17 Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Błażej Rozwoda , Kazuki Sakurai , Michael Spannowsky

Anomaly detection is referred to as a process in which the aim is to detect data points that follow a different pattern from the majority of data points. Anomaly detection methods suffer from several well-known challenges that hinder their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Kasra Babaei , Zhi Yuan Chen , Tomas Maul

This paper proposes an autoencoder (AE) that is used for improving the performance of once-class classifiers for the purpose of detecting anomalies. Traditional one-class classifiers (OCCs) perform poorly under certain conditions such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Kasra Babaei , ZhiYuan Chen , Tomas Maul

We present an unsupervised outlier detection method for galaxy spectra based on the spectrum autoencoder architecture spender, which reliably captures spectral features and provides highly realistic reconstructions for SDSS galaxy spectra.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Yan Liang , Peter Melchior , Sicong Lu , Andy Goulding , Charlotte Ward

We study the role of latent space dimensionality in Wasserstein auto-encoders (WAEs). Through experimentation on synthetic and real datasets, we argue that random encoders should be preferred over deterministic encoders. We highlight the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-13 Paul K. Rubenstein , Bernhard Schoelkopf , Ilya Tolstikhin

An autoencoder is a neural network which data projects to and from a lower dimensional latent space, where this data is easier to understand and model. The autoencoder consists of two sub-networks, the encoder and the decoder, which carry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Saïd Ladjal , Alasdair Newson , Chi-Hieu Pham

We introduce a potentially powerful new method of searching for new physics at the LHC, using autoencoders and unsupervised deep learning. The key idea of the autoencoder is that it learns to map "normal" events back to themselves, but…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-22 Marco Farina , Yuichiro Nakai , David Shih

Designing model-independent anomaly detection algorithms for analyzing LHC data remains a central challenge in the search for new physics, due to the high dimensionality of collider events. In this work, we develop a graph autoencoder as an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-26 Jack Y. Araz , Dimitrios Athanasakos , Mateusz Ploskon , Felix Ringer

Discrete latent spaces in variational autoencoders have been shown to effectively capture the data distribution for many real-world problems such as natural language understanding, human intent prediction, and visual scene representation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Masha Itkina , Boris Ivanovic , Ransalu Senanayake , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Marco Pavone

This paper addresses the dual challenge of improving anomaly detection and signal integrity in high-speed dynamic random access memory signals. To achieve this, we propose a joint training framework that integrates an autoencoder with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Muhammad Usama , Hee-Deok Jang , Soham Shanbhag , Yoo-Chang Sung , Seung-Jun Bae , Dong Eui Chang