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Machine learning techniques are used for treating jets as images to explore the performance of boosted top quark tagging. Tagging performances are studied in both hadronic and leptonic channels of top quark decay, employing a convolutional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-22 Soham Bhattacharya , Monoranjan Guchait , Aravind H. Vijay

Identification of boosted, hadronically-decaying top quarks is a problem of central importance for physics goals of the Large Hadron Collider. We present a theoretical analysis of top quark tagging, establishing zeroth-order, minimal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-04 Andrew J. Larkoski

The performance of taggers for hadronically decaying top quarks and $W$ bosons in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider is presented. A set of techniques based on jet shape…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-06-05 ATLAS Collaboration

When using machine learning techniques in decision-making processes, the interpretability of the models is important. In the present paper, we adopted the Shapley additive explanation (SHAP), which is based on fair profit allocation among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Yasunobu Nohara , Koutarou Matsumoto , Hidehisa Soejima , Naoki Nakashima

This paper describes a method for detecting a rare top quark decay into a charm quark and a Higgs boson (H), which decays further into b quarks, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and introduces a tagging algorithm to identify boosted tops…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-18 Shreecheta Chowdhury , Amit Chakraborty , Saunak Dutta

Nowadays, deep neural networks are widely used in a variety of fields that have a direct impact on society. Although those models typically show outstanding performance, they have been used for a long time as black boxes. To address this,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Huawei Sun , Lorenzo Servadei , Hao Feng , Michael Stephan , Robert Wille , Avik Santra

A method is introduced for distinguishing top jets (boosted, hadronically decaying top quarks) from light quark and gluon jets using jet substructure. The procedure involves parsing the jet cluster to resolve its subjets, and then imposing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 David E. Kaplan , Keith Rehermann , Matthew D. Schwartz , Brock Tweedie

In recent years, two parallel research trends have emerged in machine learning, yet their intersections remain largely unexplored. On one hand, there has been a significant increase in literature focused on Individual Treatment Effect (ITE)…

Shapley values have seen widespread use in machine learning as a way to explain model predictions and estimate the importance of covariates. Accurately explaining models is critical in real-world models to both aid in decision making and to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-19 Daniel de Marchi , Michael Kosorok , Scott de Marchi

A framework is presented to extract and understand decision-making information from a deep neural network (DNN) classifier of jet substructure tagging techniques. The general method studied is to provide expert variables that augment inputs…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-01-11 Garvita Agarwal , Lauren Hay , Ia Iashvili , Benjamin Mannix , Christine McLean , Margaret Morris , Salvatore Rappoccio , Ulrich Schubert

At the LHC, tagging boosted heavy particle resonances which decay hadronically, such as top quarks and Higgs bosons, can play an essential role in new physics searches. In events with high multiplicity, however, the standard approach to tag…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-21 Koichi Hamaguchi , Seng Pei Liew , Martin Stoll

High-momentum top quarks are a natural physical system in collider experiments for testing models of new physics, and jet substructure methods are key both to exploiting their largest decay mode and to assuaging resolution difficulties as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-27 Jack Y. Araz , Andy Buckley , Benjamin Fuks

The performance of top taggers, for example in resonance searches, can be significantly enhanced through an increased set of variables, with a special focus on final-state radiation. We study the production and the decay of a heavy gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-23 Gregor Kasieczka , Tilman Plehn , Torben Schell , Thomas Strebler , Gavin P. Salam

Machine learning algorithms have the capacity to discern intricate features directly from raw data. We demonstrated the performance of top taggers built upon three machine learning architectures: a BDT that uses jet-level variables…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-06 Rameswar Sahu , Kirtiman Ghosh

Tabular data stands out as one of the most frequently encountered types in high energy physics. Unlike commonly homogeneous data such as pixelated images, simulating high-dimensional tabular data and accurately capturing their correlations…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-04-30 Cheng Jiang , Sitian Qian , Huilin Qu

Recent literature on deep neural networks for tagging of highly energetic jets resulting from top quark decays has focused on image based techniques or multivariate approaches using high-level jet substructure variables. Here, a sequential…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-10 Jannicke Pearkes , Wojciech Fedorko , Alison Lister , Colin Gay

An important technique to explore a black-box machine learning (ML) model is called SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanation). SHAP values decompose predictions into contributions of the features in a fair way. We will show that for a boosted…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-01 Michael Mayer

This paper aims to explore models based on the extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) approach for business risk classification. Feature selection (FS) algorithms and hyper-parameter optimizations are simultaneously considered during model…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-25 Yan Wang , Xuelei Sherry Ni

The ubiquity of top-rich final states in the context of beyond the Standard Model (BSM) searches has led to their status as extensively studied signatures at the LHC. Over the past decade, numerous endeavours have been undertaken in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-23 Rameswar Sahu , Saiyad Ashanujjaman , Kirtiman Ghosh

This research paper explores the impact of various input parameters, including Infill percentage, Layer Height, Extrusion Temperature, and Print Speed, on the resulting Tensile Strength in objects produced through additive manufacturing.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Akshansh Mishra , Vijaykumar S Jatti