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Using variational autoencoders trained on known physics processes, we develop a one-sided threshold test to isolate previously unseen processes as outlier events. Since the autoencoder training does not depend on any specific new physics…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-06-14 Olmo Cerri , Thong Q. Nguyen , Maurizio Pierini , Maria Spiropulu , Jean-Roch Vlimant

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

The lack of evidence for new interactions and particles at the Large Hadron Collider has motivated the high-energy physics community to explore model-agnostic data-analysis approaches to search for new physics. Autoencoders are unsupervised…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-20 Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Michael Spannowsky , Michihisa Takeuchi

This paper discusses model-agnostic searches for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) using anomaly-detection techniques for the identification of event signatures that deviate from the Standard Model (SM). We investigate anomaly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-26 S. V. Chekanov , W. Hopkins

In this paper, we show how to adapt and deploy anomaly detection algorithms based on deep autoencoders, for the unsupervised detection of new physics signatures in the extremely challenging environment of a real-time event selection system…

Autoencoders are an effective analysis tool for the LHC, as they represent one of its main goal of finding physics beyond the Standard Model. The key challenge is that out-of-distribution anomaly searches based on the compressibility of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-23 Barry M. Dillon , Luigi Favaro , Tilman Plehn , Peter Sorrenson , Michael Krämer

This work presents advancements in model-agnostic searches for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) through the application of event-based anomaly detection techniques utilizing unsupervised machine learning. We discuss the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 Wasikul Islam , Sergei Chekanov , Nicholas Luongo

In this paper we propose a new strategy, based on anomaly detection methods, to search for new physics phenomena at colliders independently of the details of such new events. For this purpose, machine learning techniques are trained using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-30 M. Crispim Romao , N. F. Castro , R. Pedro

Anomaly detection in supercomputers is a very difficult problem due to the big scale of the systems and the high number of components. The current state of the art for automated anomaly detection employs Machine Learning methods or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Andrea Borghesi , Andrea Bartolini , Michele Lombardi , Michela Milano , Luca Benini

The pursuit of discovering new phenomena at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) demands constant innovation in algorithms and technologies. Tensor networks are mathematical models on the intersection of classical and quantum machine learning,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-05 Ema Puljak , Maurizio Pierini , Artur Garcia-Saez

Anomaly detection with convolutional autoencoders is a popular method to search for new physics in a model-agnostic manner. These techniques are powerful, but they are still a "black box," since we do not know what high-level physical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-13 Layne Bradshaw , Spencer Chang , Bryan Ostdiek

Anomaly detection relies on designing a score to determine whether a particular event is uncharacteristic of a given background distribution. One way to define a score is to use autoencoders, which rely on the ability to reconstruct certain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-30 Katherine Fraser , Samuel Homiller , Rashmish K. Mishra , Bryan Ostdiek , Matthew D. Schwartz

In the realm of dijet searches in high-energy physics, a significant challenge has emerged: with experiments producing more and more data, the traditional methods of using analytic functions to describe dijet mass spectra start to fail. To…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-03-14 Sergei V. Chekanov , Rui Zhang

Due to the growing amount of data from in-situ sensors in wastewater systems, it becomes necessary to automatically identify abnormal behaviours and ensure high data quality. This paper proposes an anomaly detection method based on a deep…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-09 Stefania Russo , Andy Disch , Frank Blumensaat , Kris Villez

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

Autoencoders as tools behind anomaly searches at the LHC have the structural problem that they only work in one direction, extracting jets with higher complexity but not the other way around. To address this, we derive classifiers from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-22 Barry M. Dillon , Tilman Plehn , Christof Sauer , Peter Sorrenson

There is a growing need for machine learning-based anomaly detection strategies to broaden the search for Beyond-the-Standard-Model (BSM) physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and elsewhere. The first step of any anomaly detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-18 Gregor Kasieczka , Radha Mastandrea , Vinicius Mikuni , Benjamin Nachman , Mariel Pettee , David Shih

The application of machine learning techniques for anomaly detection in particle accelerators has gained popularity in recent years. These efforts have ranged from the analysis of quenches in radio frequency cavities and superconducting…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-12-16 Jonathan P. Edelen , Nathan M. Cook

Searches for new physics at the LHC at CERN traditionally use advanced simulations to model Standard Model and new-physics processes in high-energy collisions and compare them with data. The lack of recent direct discoveries, however, has…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-30 Antonio D'Avanzo

This study explores the potential of unsupervised anomaly detection for identifying physics beyond the Standard Model that may appear at proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. We introduce a novel quantum autoencoder circuit ansatz…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Callum Duffy , Mohammad Hassanshah , Marcin Jastrzebski , Sarah Malik
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