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Data taking at the LHC is the beginning of a new era in particle physics which will lead us towards understanding the completion of the Standard Model at and beyond the TeV scale. I discuss different approaches to new physics searches:…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-28 Tilman Plehn

Machine learning (ML) is a subfield of artificial intelligence. The term applies broadly to a collection of computational algorithms and techniques that train systems from raw data rather than a priori models. ML techniques are now…

This chapter gives an overview of the core concepts of machine learning (ML) -- the use of algorithms that learn from data, identify patterns, and make predictions or decisions without being explicitly programmed -- that are relevant to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-12-15 Javier M. Duarte , Uros Seljak , Kazu Terao

These notes were compiled as lecture notes for a course developed and taught at the University of the Southern California. They should be accessible to a typical engineering graduate student with a strong background in Applied Mathematics.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Deep Ray , Orazio Pinti , Assad A. Oberai

The popularity of Machine Learning (ML) has been increasing in the last decades in almost every area, being the commercial and scientific fields the most notorious ones. Concerning particle physics, ML has been proved as a useful resource…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-12-17 Xabier Cid Vidal , Lorena Dieste Maroñas , Álvaro Dósil Suárez

In recent years, machine learning has emerged as a powerful computational tool and novel problem-solving perspective for physics, offering new avenues for studying strongly interacting QCD matter properties under extreme conditions. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-05 Kai Zhou , Lingxiao Wang , Long-Gang Pang , Shuzhe Shi

Machine learning encompasses a set of tools and algorithms which are now becoming popular in almost all scientific and technological fields. This is true for molecular dynamics as well, where machine learning offers promises of extracting…

This lecture note is intended to prepare early-year master's and PhD students in data science or a related discipline with foundational ideas in machine learning. It starts with basic ideas in modern machine learning with classification as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Kyunghyun Cho

Machine learning is a rapidly growing field with the potential to revolutionize many areas of science, including physics. This review provides a brief overview of machine learning in physics, covering the main concepts of supervised,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Francisco A. Rodrigues

Machine learning (ML) is becoming an increasingly important component of cutting-edge physics research, but its computational requirements present significant challenges. In this white paper, we discuss the needs of the physics community…

Recent years have witnessed the fast development of machine learning potentials (MLPs) and their widespread applications in chemistry, physics, and material science. By fitting discrete ab initio data faithfully to continuous and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Junfan Xia , Yaolong Zhang , Bin Jiang

We develop a machine learning method for mapping data originating from both Standard Model processes and various theories beyond the Standard Model into a unified representation (latent) space while conserving information about the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-23 Anna Hallin , Gregor Kasieczka , Sabine Kraml , André Lessa , Louis Moureaux , Tore von Schwartz , David Shih

I present a concise review of where we stand in particle physics today. First, I will discuss the status of the Standard Model, its open problems and the expected answers from the LHC. Then I will briefly review the avenues for New Physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-18 Guido Altarelli

This paper summarizes some challenges encountered and best practices established in several years of teaching Machine Learning for the Physical Sciences at the undergraduate and graduate level. I discuss motivations for teaching ML to…

Physics Education · Physics 2021-08-20 Viviana Acquaviva

These brief lecture notes cover the basics of neural networks and deep learning as well as their applications in the quantum domain, for physicists without prior knowledge. In the first part, we describe training using backpropagation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Florian Marquardt

Machine learning (ML) is transforming all areas of science. The complex and time-consuming calculations in molecular simulations are particularly suitable for a machine learning revolution and have already been profoundly impacted by the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-11-11 Frank Noé , Alexandre Tkatchenko , Klaus-Robert Müller , Cecilia Clementi

Machine learning is poised as a very powerful tool that can drastically improve our ability to carry out scientific research. However, many issues need to be addressed before this becomes a reality. This article focuses on one particular…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 Weinan E , Jiequn Han , Linfeng Zhang

Machine learning algorithms learn a desired input-output relation from examples in order to interpret new inputs. This is important for tasks such as image and speech recognition or strategy optimisation, with growing applications in the IT…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Schuld , I. Sinayskiy , F. Petruccione

Our predictions for particle physics processes are realized in a chain of complex simulators. They allow us to generate high-fidelity simulated data, but they are not well-suited for inference on the theory parameters with observed data. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-03 Johann Brehmer , Kyle Cranmer

This article reveals the future prospects of quantum algorithms in high energy physics (HEP). Particle identification, knowing their properties and characteristics is a challenging problem in experimental HEP. The key technique to solve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Kapil K. Sharma