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We introduce a new jet shape -- N-subjettiness -- designed to identify boosted hadronically-decaying objects like electroweak bosons and top quarks. Combined with a jet invariant mass cut, N-subjettiness is an effective discriminating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Jesse Thaler , Ken Van Tilburg

Machine-learning assisted jet substructure tagging techniques have the potential to significantly improve searches for new particles and Standard Model measurements in hadronic final states. Techniques with simple analytic forms are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-20 Kaustuv Datta , Andrew Larkoski , Benjamin Nachman

Anomaly detection is important in many real-life applications. Recently, self-supervised learning has greatly helped deep anomaly detection by recognizing several geometric transformations. However these methods lack finer features, usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Loic Jezequel , Ngoc-Son Vu , Jean Beaudet , Aymeric Histace

The jet Trimming procedure has been demonstrated to greatly improve event reconstruction in hadron collisions, by mitigating contamination due initial state radiation, multiple interactions, and event pileup. Meanwhile, Qjets -- a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-12 Tuhin S. Roy , Arun M. Thalapillil

Every field of Science is undergoing unprecedented changes in the discovery process, and Astronomy has been a main player in this transition since the beginning. The ongoing and future large and complex multi-messenger sky surveys impose a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Maurizio D'Addona , Giuseppe Riccio , Stefano Cavuoti , Crescenzo Tortora , Massimo Brescia

Despite the continuous proposal of new anomaly detection algorithms and extensive benchmarking efforts, progress seems to stagnate, with only minor performance differences between established baselines and new algorithms. In this position…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Philipp Röchner , Simon Klüttermann , Franz Rothlauf , Daniel Schlör

Fine-grained anomaly detection has recently been dominated by segmentation based approaches. These approaches first classify each element of the sample (e.g., image patch) as normal or anomalous and then classify the entire sample as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Niv Cohen , Issar Tzachor , Yedid Hoshen

This article introduces a novel method for detecting anomalies within log data from control system nodes at the European XFEL accelerator. Effective anomaly detection is crucial for providing operators with a clear understanding of each…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Antonin Sulc , Annika Eichler , Tim Wilksen

Anomaly detection, a.k.a. outlier detection or novelty detection, has been a lasting yet active research area in various research communities for several decades. There are still some unique problem complexities and challenges that require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Guansong Pang , Chunhua Shen , Longbing Cao , Anton van den Hengel

Deep generative models are challenging the classical methods in the field of anomaly detection nowadays. Every new method provides evidence of outperforming its predecessors, often with contradictory results. The objective of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Vít Škvára , Jan Franců , Matěj Zorek , Tomáš Pevný , Václav Šmídl

Anomaly detection has the potential to discover new physics in unexplored regions of the data. However, choosing the best anomaly detector for a given data set in a model-agnostic way is an important challenge which has hitherto largely…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-27 Marie Hein , Gregor Kasieczka , Michael Krämer , Louis Moureaux , Alexander Mück , David Shih

This paper introduces a novel anomaly detection (AD) problem aimed at identifying `odd-looking' objects within a scene by comparing them to other objects present. Unlike traditional AD benchmarks with fixed anomaly criteria, our task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ankan Bhunia , Changjian Li , Hakan Bilen

Deep learning approaches to anomaly detection have recently improved the state of the art in detection performance on complex datasets such as large collections of images or text. These results have sparked a renewed interest in the anomaly…

Many searches for physics beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) rely on top tagging algorithms, which discriminate between boosted hadronic top quarks and the much more common jets initiated by light quarks and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-27 Leandro G. Almeida , Mihailo Backovic , Mathieu Cliche , Seung J. Lee , Maxim Perelstein

This paper describes a method for detecting a rare top quark decay into a charm quark and a Higgs boson (H), which decays further into b quarks, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and introduces a tagging algorithm to identify boosted tops…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-18 Shreecheta Chowdhury , Amit Chakraborty , Saunak Dutta

Anomaly detection is a method for discovering unusual and suspicious behavior. In many real-world scenarios, the examined events can be directly linked to the actions of an adversary, such as attacks on computer networks or frauds in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Olga Petrova , Karel Durkota , Galina Alperovich , Karel Horak , Michal Najman , Branislav Bosansky , Viliam Lisy

Generative models based on variational autoencoders are a popular technique for detecting anomalies in images in a semi-supervised context. A common approach employs the anomaly score to detect the presence of anomalies, and it is known to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Muhammad Rashid , Elvio Amparore , Enrico Ferrari , Damiano Verda

We present an alternative approach to identifying and characterizing jet substructure. An angular correlation function is introduced that can be used to extract angular and mass scales within a jet without reference to a clustering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-01 Martin Jankowiak , Andrew J. Larkoski

Anomalies are strange data points; they usually represent an unusual occurrence. Anomaly detection is presented from the perspective of Wireless sensor networks. Different approaches have been taken in the past, as we will see, not only to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Pelumi Oluwasanya

At the LHC, tagging boosted heavy particle resonances which decay hadronically, such as top quarks and Higgs bosons, can play an essential role in new physics searches. In events with high multiplicity, however, the standard approach to tag…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-21 Koichi Hamaguchi , Seng Pei Liew , Martin Stoll