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We investigate a new structure for machine learning classifiers applied to problems in high-energy physics by expanding the inputs to include not only measured features but also physics parameters. The physics parameters represent a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-05-25 Pierre Baldi , Kyle Cranmer , Taylor Faucett , Peter Sadowski , Daniel Whiteson

To gain insight into the mechanisms behind machine learning methods, it is crucial to establish connections among the features describing data points. However, these correlations often exhibit a high-dimensional and strongly nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Lorenzo Basile , Santiago Acevedo , Luca Bortolussi , Fabio Anselmi , Alex Rodriguez

Machine learning techniques have proven to be effective in addressing the structure of atomic nuclei. Physics$-$Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) are a promising machine learning technique suitable for solving integro-differential problems…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Lorenzo Brevi , Antonio Mandarino , Carlo Barbieri , Enrico Prati

Accurate and fast simulation of particle physics processes is crucial for the high-energy physics community. Simulating particle interactions with detectors is both time consuming and computationally expensive. With the proton-proton…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-08-26 Ali Hariri , Darya Dyachkova , Sergei Gleyzer

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

The abundance of data has given machine learning considerable momentum in natural sciences and engineering, though modeling of physical processes is often difficult. A particularly tough problem is the efficient representation of geometric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Andreas Mayr , Sebastian Lehner , Arno Mayrhofer , Christoph Kloss , Sepp Hochreiter , Johannes Brandstetter

Precise reconstruction of top quark properties is a challenging task at the Large Hadron Collider due to combinatorial backgrounds and missing information. We introduce a physics-informed neural network architecture called the Covariant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-05 Shikai Qiu , Shuo Han , Xiangyang Ju , Benjamin Nachman , Haichen Wang

Linear differential equations are ubiquitous in science and engineering. Quantum computers can simulate quantum systems, which are described by a restricted type of linear differential equations. Here we extend quantum simulation algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-21 Dominic W. Berry

Combinatorial optimization problems arise in a wide range of applications from diverse domains. Many of these problems are NP-hard and designing efficient heuristics for them requires considerable time and experimentation. On the other…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Juho Lauri , Sourav Dutta , Marco Grassia , Deepak Ajwani

The search for supersymmetric particles is one of the major goals in the next high luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider. Supersymmmetric top (stop) searches play a very important role in this respect, but the unprecedented…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-05 P. Bargassa , T. Cabos , S. Cavinato , A. Cordeiro Oudot Choi , T. Hessel

The Standard Model correctly describes all interactions at (and below) the electroweak scale. However it does not explain the peculiar pattern of quark, lepton and neutrino masses. Also charge quantization is not understood. These are well…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-06-09 Francesco Caravaglios

Highly oscillatory differential equations, commonly encountered in multi-scale problems, are often too complex to solve analytically. However, several numerical methods have been developed to approximate their solutions. Although these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Maxime Bouchereau

Combinatorial optimization problems are typically tackled by the branch-and-bound paradigm. We propose a new graph convolutional neural network model for learning branch-and-bound variable selection policies, which leverages the natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Maxime Gasse , Didier Chételat , Nicola Ferroni , Laurent Charlin , Andrea Lodi

Supersymmetry with heavy scalars is a model where at the LHC we have to rely on rate measurements to determine the parameters of the underlying new physics. For this example we show how to properly combine rate measurements with kinematic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-14 Emmanuel Turlay , Remi Lafaye , Tilman Plehn , Michael Rauch , Dirk Zerwas

Many inverse problems in nuclear fusion and high-energy astrophysics research, such as the optimization of tokamak reactor geometries or the inference of black hole parameters from interferometric images, necessitate high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Jonathan Gorard , Ammar Hakim , Hong Qin , Kyle Parfrey , Shantenu Jha

Individual events at high-energy colliders like the LHC can be represented by a sequence of measurements, or 'point patterns' in an observable space. Starting from this data representation, we build a simple Bayesian probabilistic model for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-17 Darius A. Faroughy

Most state of the art object detectors output multiple detections per object. The duplicates are removed in a post-processing step called Non-Maximum Suppression. Classical Non-Maximum Suppression has shortcomings in scenes that contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Niels Ole Salscheider

With the aim of studying nonperturbative out-of-equilibrium dynamics of high-energy particle collisions on quantum simulators, we investigate the scattering dynamics of lattice quantum electrodynamics in 1+1 dimensions. Working in the…

Using an effective field theory approach for higher-spin fields, we derive the interactions of colour singlet and electrically neutral particles with a spin higher than unity, concentrating on the spin-3/2, spin-2, spin-5/2 and spin-3…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-16 Juan Carlos Criado , Abdelhak Djouadi , Niko Koivunen , Martti Raidal , Hardi Veermäe

Machine Learning models incorporating multiple layered learning networks have been seen to provide effective models for various classification problems. The resulting optimization problem to solve for the optimal vector minimizing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Tomas Pevny