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Quantum Machine Learning (QML) is an exciting tool that has received significant recent attention due in part to advances in quantum computing hardware. While there is currently no formal guarantee that QML is superior to classical ML for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-22 Sulaiman Alvi , Christian Bauer , Benjamin Nachman

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

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

Machine learning techniques in particle physics are most powerful when they are trained directly on data, to avoid sensitivity to theoretical uncertainties or an underlying bias on the expected signal. To be able to train on data in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-21 Andrew Blance , Michael Spannowsky , Philip Waite

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

Much hope for finding new physics phenomena at microscopic scale relies on the observations obtained from High Energy Physics experiments, like the ones performed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). However, current experiments do not…

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

We present an application of unsupervised learning for zero-bias detection of rare particle decays and exotic hadrons in low-background environments such as those characteristic of diffractive events and ultraperipheral pp, p--A, or A--A…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-05 Simone Ragoni , Janet Seger , Christopher Anson

Collisions at high-energy particle colliders are a traditionally fruitful source of exotic particle discoveries. Finding these rare particles requires solving difficult signal-versus-background classification problems, hence machine…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Pierre Baldi , Peter Sadowski , Daniel Whiteson

In recent years, interest has grown in alternative strategies for the search for New Physics beyond the Standard Model. One envisaged solution lies in the development of anomaly detection algorithms based on unsupervised machine learning…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-08 Louis Vaslin , Vincent Barra , Julien Donini

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

The CMS detector is a general-purpose apparatus that detects high-energy collisions produced at the LHC. Online Data Quality Monitoring of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter is a vital operational tool that allows detector experts to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-06-27 The CMS ECAL Collaboration

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

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

We propose a Quantum Federated Autoencoder for Anomaly Detection, a framework that leverages quantum federated learning for efficient, secure, and distributed processing in IoT networks. By harnessing quantum autoencoders for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Devashish Chaudhary , Sutharshan Rajasegarar , Shiva Raj Pokhrel

Anomaly detection through employing machine learning techniques has emerged as a novel powerful tool in the search for new physics beyond the Standard Model. Historically similar to the development of jet observables, theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-02 Oliver Atkinson , Akanksha Bhardwaj , Christoph Englert , Partha Konar , Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Michael Spannowsky

Anomaly, or out-of-distribution, detection is a promising tool for aiding discoveries of new particles or processes in particle physics. In this work, we identify and address two overlooked opportunities to improve anomaly detection for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-01-18 Abhijith Gandrakota , Lily Zhang , Aahlad Puli , Kyle Cranmer , Jennifer Ngadiuba , Rajesh Ranganath , Nhan Tran

An anomaly detection method based on deep autoencoders is proposed to address anomalies that often occur in enterprise-level ETL data streams. The study first analyzes multiple types of anomalies in ETL processes, including delays, missing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xin Chen , Saili Uday Gadgil , Kangning Gao , Yi Hu , Cong Nie

Reliably detecting anomalies in a given set of images is a task of high practical relevance for visual quality inspection, surveillance, or medical image analysis. Autoencoder neural networks learn to reconstruct normal images, and hence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Laura Beggel , Michael Pfeiffer , Bernd Bischl

Autoencoders have been proposed as a powerful tool for model-independent anomaly detection in high-energy physics. The operating principle is that events which do not belong to the space of training data will be reconstructed poorly, thus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-06 Joshua Batson , C. Grace Haaf , Yonatan Kahn , Daniel A. Roberts