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The standard model (SM) of particle physics represents a theoretical paradigm for the description of the fundamental forces of nature. Despite its broad applicability, the SM does not enable the description of all physically possible…

Anomaly detection seeks to identify unusual phenomena, a central task in science and industry. The task is inherently unsupervised as anomalies are unexpected and unknown during training. Recent advances in self-supervised representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Tal Reiss , Niv Cohen , Eliahu Horwitz , Ron Abutbul , Yedid Hoshen

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 introduce a novel anomaly search method based on (i) jet tagging to select interesting events, which are less likely to be produced by background processes; (ii) comparison of the untagged and tagged samples to single out features (such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra

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

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

Anomaly detection - identifying deviations from Standard Model predictions - is a key challenge at the Large Hadron Collider due to the size and complexity of its datasets. This is typically addressed by transforming high-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-03 Kyle Metzger , Lana Xu , Mia Sodini , Thea K. Arrestad , Katya Govorkova , Gaia Grosso , Philip Harris

Anomaly detection is an important task for complex systems (e.g., industrial facilities, manufacturing, large-scale science experiments), where failures in a sub-system can lead to low yield, faulty products, or even damage to components.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ryan Humble , Zhe Zhang , Finn O'Shea , Eric Darve , Daniel Ratner

We develop a self-supervised method for density-based anomaly detection using contrastive learning, and test it using event-level anomaly data from CMS ADC2021. The AnomalyCLR technique is data-driven and uses augmentations of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-29 Barry M. Dillon , Luigi Favaro , Friedrich Feiden , Tanmoy Modak , Tilman Plehn

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

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 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

This paper presents a novel method of searching for boosted hadronically decaying objects by treating them as anomalous elements of a contaminated dataset. A Variational Recurrent Neural Network (VRNN) is used to model jets as sequences of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 Alan Kahn , Julia Gonski , Inês Ochoa , Daniel Williams , Gustaaf Brooijmans

We introduce a powerful student-teacher framework for the challenging problem of unsupervised anomaly detection and pixel-precise anomaly segmentation in high-resolution images. Student networks are trained to regress the output of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Paul Bergmann , Michael Fauser , David Sattlegger , Carsten Steger

This Letter describes a search for narrowly resonant new physics using a machine-learning anomaly detection procedure that does not rely on a signal simulations for developing the analysis selection. Weakly supervised learning is used to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-01-12 ATLAS Collaboration

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…

Complete anomaly detection strategies that are both signal sensitive and compatible with background estimation have largely focused on resonant signals. Non-resonant new physics scenarios are relatively under-explored and may arise from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-08 Kehang Bai , Radha Mastandrea , Benjamin Nachman

This study explores the application of autoencoder-based machine learning techniques for anomaly detection to identify exoplanet atmospheres with unconventional chemical signatures using a low-dimensional data representation. We use the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Alexander Roman , Emilie Panek , Roy T. Forestano , Eyup B. Unlu , Katia Matcheva , Konstantin T. Matchev

We present a new algorithm for anomaly detection called Anomaly Awareness. The algorithm learns about normal events while being made aware of the anomalies through a modification of the cost function. We show how this method works in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Charanjit K. Khosa , Veronica Sanz

The search for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) at collider experiments requires model-independent strategies to avoid missing possible discoveries of unexpected signals. Anomaly detection (AD) techniques offer a promising approach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-05 Fernando Abreu de Souza , Maura Barros , Nuno Filipe Castro , Miguel Crispim Romão , Céu Neiva , Rute Pedro