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Recent efforts towards video anomaly detection (VAD) try to learn a deep autoencoder to describe normal event patterns with small reconstruction errors. The video inputs with large reconstruction errors are regarded as anomalies at the test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Yuandu Lai , Yahong Han , Yaowei Wang

We propose a new method to define anomaly scores and apply this to particle physics collider events. Anomalies can be either rare, meaning that these events are a minority in the normal dataset, or different, meaning they have values that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-09 Sascha Caron , Luc Hendriks , Rob Verheyen

Search for new physics events at the LHC mostly rely on the assumption that the events are characterized in terms of standard-reconstructed objects such as isolated photons, leptons, and jets initiated by QCD-partons. While such strategy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-12 Amit Chakraborty , Abhishek M. Iyer , Tuhin S. Roy

A web-based tool called ADFilter was developed to process collision events using autoencoders based on a deep unsupervised neural network. The autoencoders are trained on a small fraction of either collision data or Standard Model Monte…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-26 Sergei V. Chekanov , Wasikul Islam , Rui Zhang , Nicholas Luongo

Novelty detection is the machine learning task to recognize data, which belong to an unknown pattern. Complementary to supervised learning, it allows to analyze data model-independently. We demonstrate the potential role of novelty…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-29 Jan Hajer , Ying-Ying Li , Tao Liu , He Wang

We propose a physics-informed anomaly detection framework for collider data based on a Bayesian latent diffusion model. Our method combines a probabilistic encoder with diffusion dynamics in the latent space, allowing for stable and…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-03-27 Jigar Patel , Tommaso Dorigo

A real-time autoencoder-based anomaly detection system using semi-supervised machine learning has been developed for the online Data Quality Monitoring system of the electromagnetic calorimeter of the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. A novel…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-07-31 Abhirami Harilal , Kyungmin Park , Manfred Paulini

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

Discoveries of new phenomena often involve a dedicated search for a hypothetical physics signature. Recently, novel deep learning techniques have emerged for anomaly detection in the absence of a signal prior. However, by ignoring signal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-14 Sang Eon Park , Dylan Rankin , Silviu-Marian Udrescu , Mikaeel Yunus , Philip Harris

Deep learning algorithms will play a key role in the upcoming runs of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), helping bolster various fronts ranging from fast and accurate detector simulations to physics analysis probing possible deviations from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-13 Akanksha Bhardwaj , Partha Konar , Vishal S. Ngairangbam

Anomaly detection is a classical but worthwhile problem, and many deep learning-based anomaly detection algorithms have been proposed, which can usually achieve better detection results than traditional methods. In view of reconstruct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Chunkai Zhang , Shaocong Li , Hongye Zhang , Yingyang Chen

We present a family of conditional dual auto-encoders (CoDAEs) for generic and model-independent new physics searches at colliders. New physics signals, which arise from new types of particles and interactions, are considered in our study…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-09-25 Luca Anzalone , Simranjit Singh Chhibra , Benedikt Maier , Nadezda Chernyavskaya , Maurizio Pierini

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

Autoencoders have useful applications in high energy physics in anomaly detection, particularly for jets - collimated showers of particles produced in collisions such as those at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. We explore the use of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-11-29 Steven Tsan , Raghav Kansal , Anthony Aportela , Daniel Diaz , Javier Duarte , Sukanya Krishna , Farouk Mokhtar , Jean-Roch Vlimant , Maurizio Pierini

The task of detecting anomalous data patterns is as important in practical applications as challenging. In the context of spatial data, recognition of unexpected trajectories brings additional difficulties, such as high dimensionality and…

Anomaly detection techniques are growing in importance at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), motivated by the increasing need to search for new physics in a model-agnostic way. In this work, we provide a detailed comparative study between a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-28 Jack H. Collins , Pablo Martín-Ramiro , Benjamin Nachman , David Shih

Anomaly detection using dimensionality reduction has been an essential technique for monitoring multidimensional data. Although deep learning-based methods have been well studied for their remarkable detection performance, their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-24 Yasuhiro Ikeda , Kengo Tajiri , Yuusuke Nakano , Keishiro Watanabe , Keisuke Ishibashi

Petabytes of data are generated at the Atlas experiment at the Large Hadron Collider however not all of it is necessarily interesting, so what do we do with all of this data and how do we find these interesting needles in an uninteresting…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-06-09 Sully Billingsley

Reliable data quality monitoring is a key asset in delivering collision data suitable for physics analysis in any modern large-scale High Energy Physics experiment. This paper focuses on the use of artificial neural networks for supervised…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-08-03 Adrian Alan Pol , Gianluca Cerminara , Cecile Germain , Maurizio Pierini , Agrima Seth