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Anomaly detection in High Energy Physics requires identifying rare signals against overwhelming backgrounds, without prior knowledge of the signal. We present the first application of masked-token prediction, a technique from Large Language…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-24 Ambre Visive , Roberto Ruiz de Austri , Polina Moskvitina , Clara Nellist , Sascha Caron

Autoencoders are certainly among the most studied and used Deep Learning models: the idea behind them is to train a model in order to reconstruct the same input data. The peculiarity of these models is to compress the information through a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Gabriele Martino , Davide Moroni , Massimo Martinelli

Inspired by the complexity and diversity of biological neurons, a quadratic neuron is proposed to replace the inner product in the current neuron with a simplified quadratic function. Employing such a novel type of neurons offers a new…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Jing-Xiao Liao , Bo-Jian Hou , Hang-Cheng Dong , Hao Zhang , Xiaoge Zhang , Jinwei Sun , Shiping Zhang , Feng-Lei Fan

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 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

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

Anomaly detection is a fundamental problem in computer vision area with many real-world applications. Given a wide range of images belonging to the normal class, emerging from some distribution, the objective of this task is to construct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Chengwei Chen , Pan Chen , Haichuan Song , Yiqing Tao , Yuan Xie , Shouhong Ding , Lizhuang Ma

Anomaly detection is referred to as a process in which the aim is to detect data points that follow a different pattern from the majority of data points. Anomaly detection methods suffer from several well-known challenges that hinder their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Kasra Babaei , Zhi Yuan Chen , Tomas Maul

Exploiting the rapid advances in probabilistic inference, in particular variational Bayes and variational autoencoders (VAEs), for anomaly detection (AD) tasks remains an open research question. Previous works argued that training VAE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Adrian Alan Pol , Victor Berger , Gianluca Cerminara , Cecile Germain , Maurizio Pierini

Anomaly detection algorithms have been proved to be useful in the search of new physics beyond the Standard Model. However, a prerequisite for using an anomaly detection algorithm is that the signal to be sought is indeed anomalous. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-23 Ji-Chong Yang , Yu-Chen Guo , Li-Hua Cai

Deep autoencoder has been extensively used for anomaly detection. Training on the normal data, the autoencoder is expected to produce higher reconstruction error for the abnormal inputs than the normal ones, which is adopted as a criterion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Dong Gong , Lingqiao Liu , Vuong Le , Budhaditya Saha , Moussa Reda Mansour , Svetha Venkatesh , Anton van den Hengel

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

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

Despite extensive theoretical motivation for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) of particle physics, searches at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have found no significant evidence for BSM physics. Therefore, it is essential to broaden…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-21 Jack H. Collins , Kiel Howe , Benjamin Nachman

We investigate a method of model-agnostic anomaly detection through studying jets, collimated sprays of particles produced in high-energy collisions. We train a transformer neural network to encode simulated QCD "event space" dijets into a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Barry M. Dillon , Radha Mastandrea , Benjamin Nachman

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

A common belief in designing deep autoencoders (AEs), a type of unsupervised neural network, is that a bottleneck is required to prevent learning the identity function. Learning the identity function renders the AEs useless for anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Bang Xiang Yong , Alexandra Brintrup

Anomaly detection refers to the task of finding unusual instances that stand out from the normal data. In several applications, these outliers or anomalous instances are of greater interest compared to the normal ones. Specifically in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Manpreet Singh Minhas , John Zelek

Deep learning methods can classify various unstructured data such as images, language, and voice as input data. As the task of classifying anomalies becomes more important in the real world, various methods exist for classifying using deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-06 UJu Gim , YeongHyeon Park

Anomaly detection without priors of the anomalies is challenging. In the field of unsupervised anomaly detection, traditional auto-encoder (AE) tends to fail based on the assumption that by training only on normal images, the model will not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Yajie Cui , Zhaoxiang Liu , Shiguo Lian