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Jet constituents provide a more detailed description of a jet's radiation pattern than global observables. In simulations for ATLAS Run-2 data (2015-2018), transformer-based taggers trained on low-level inputs outperformed traditional…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-19 F. L. Castillo , J Levêque

Many searches for physics beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) rely on top tagging algorithms, which discriminate between boosted hadronic top quarks and the much more common jets initiated by light quarks and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-27 Leandro G. Almeida , Mihailo Backovic , Mathieu Cliche , Seung J. Lee , Maxim Perelstein

A deep-learning approach based on the transformer architecture is developed to distinguish between jets originating from quarks and gluons. The algorithm operates on jets with transverse momentum $p_{\text{T}} > 20$ and pseudorapidity…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-04 ATLAS Collaboration

We present the first sub-microsecond transformer implementation on an FPGA achieving competitive performance for state-of-the-art high-energy physics benchmarks. Transformers have shown exceptional performance on multiple tasks in modern…

Classification of jets as originating from light-flavor or heavy-flavor quarks is an important task for inferring the nature of particles produced in high-energy collisions. The large and variable dimensionality of the data provided by the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-12-07 Daniel Guest , Julian Collado , Pierre Baldi , Shih-Chieh Hsu , Gregor Urban , Daniel Whiteson

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

Machine learning-based jet classifiers are able to achieve impressive tagging performance in a variety of applications in high-energy and nuclear physics. However, it remains unclear in many cases which aspects of jets give rise to this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-20 Dimitrios Athanasakos , Andrew J. Larkoski , James Mulligan , Mateusz Ploskon , Felix Ringer

Deep neural networks trained for jet tagging are typically specific to a narrow range of transverse momenta or jet masses. Given the large phase space that the LHC is able to probe, the potential benefit of classifiers that are effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-03 Matthew J. Dolan , Ayodele Ore

Recent efforts have shown machine learning to be useful for the prediction of nonlinear fluid dynamics. Predictive accuracy is often a central motivation for employing neural networks, but the pattern recognition central to the network…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-23 Shizheng Wen , Michael W. Lee , Kai M. Kruger Bastos , Earl H. Dowell

We introduce a new and highly efficient tagger for hadronically decaying top quarks, based on a deep neural network working with Lorentz vectors and the Minkowski metric. With its novel machine learning setup and architecture it allows us…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-26 Anja Butter , Gregor Kasieczka , Tilman Plehn , Michael Russell

We apply gradient boosting machine learning techniques to the problem of hadronic jet substructure recognition using classical subjettiness variables available within a common parameterized detector simulation package DELPHES. Per-jet…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-01-25 Petr Baroň , Jiří Kvita , Radek Přívara , Jan Tomeček , Rostislav Vodák

We introduce a jet tagger based on a neural network analyzing the Minkowski Functionals (MFs) of pixellated jet images. The MFs are geometric measures of binary images, and they can be regarded as a generalization of the particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-11 Sung Hak Lim , Mihoko M. Nojiri

We present a systematic study of Tensor Network (TN) models $\unicode{x2013}$ Matrix Product States (MPS) and Tree Tensor Networks (TTN) $\unicode{x2013}$ for real-time jet tagging in high-energy physics, with a focus on low-latency…

A tagging algorithm to identify jets that are significantly displaced from the proton-proton (pp) collision region in the CMS detector at the LHC is presented. Displaced jets can arise from the decays of long-lived particles (LLPs), which…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-10-16 CMS Collaboration

Jet tagging is a crucial classification task in high energy physics. Recently the performance of jet tagging has been significantly improved by the application of deep learning techniques. In this study, we introduce a new architecture for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-29 Minxuan He , Daohan Wang

In this article, we review recent machine learning methods used in challenging particle identification of heavy-boosted particles at high-energy colliders. Our primary focus is on attention-based Transformer networks. We report the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-19 A. Hammad , Mihoko M Nojiri

We present the development and validation of a new multivariate $b$ jet identification algorithm ("$b$ tagger") used at the CDF experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron. At collider experiments, $b$ taggers allow one to distinguish particle jets…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-12-07 J. Freeman , W. Ketchum , J. D. Lewis , S. Poprocki , A. Pronko , V. Rusu , P. Wittich

Machine learning has played a pivotal role in advancing physics, with deep learning notably contributing to solving complex classification problems such as jet tagging in the field of jet physics. In this experiment, we aim to harness the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-27 Mauricio A. Diaz , Giorgio Cerro , Jacan Chaplais , Srinandan Dasmahapatra , Stefano Moretti

We study the performance of the Particle Transformer (ParT) for jet flavor tagging using ILD full simulation events (1M jets) as well as fast simulation samples (10M and 1M jets). We perform 3-category ($b/c/d$), 6-category ($b/c/d/u/s/g$),…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-03-20 Taikan Suehara , Takahiro Kawahara , Tomohiko Tanabe , Risako Tagami

Machine learning (ML) algorithms, particularly attention-based transformer models, have become indispensable for analyzing the vast data generated by particle physics experiments like ATLAS and CMS at the CERN LHC. Particle Transformer…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-10 Aaron Wang , Abhijith Gandrakota , Jennifer Ngadiuba , Vivekanand Sahu , Priyansh Bhatnagar , Elham E Khoda , Javier Duarte