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Sub-GeV light dark matter often requires new light mediators, such as a dark $Z$ boson in the $L_\mu - L_\tau$ gauge theory. We study the search potential for such a $Z^\prime$ boson via the process $\mu e^- \to \mu e^- X$, with $X$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-13 Zijian Wang , Leyun Gao , Zhuo Chen , Cheng-en Liu , Jinning Li , Qite Li , Chen Zhou , Qiang Li , Yu Xu , Xueheng Zhang , Liangwen Chen , Zhiyu Sun , Ce Zhang

Neural networks in many varieties are touted as very powerful machine learning tools because of their ability to distill large amounts of information from different forms of data, extracting complex features and enabling powerful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Stephen Notley , Malik Magdon-Ismail

When optimizing a nonlinear objective, one can employ a neural network as a surrogate for the nonlinear function. However, the resulting optimization model can be time-consuming to solve globally with exact methods. As a result, local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Jiatai Tong , Yilin Zhu , Thiago Serra , Samuel Burer

Accurate lesion segmentation is crucial for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. However, lesions often resemble surrounding tissues and exhibit ill-defined boundaries, leading to unstable predictions in boundary/transition regions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Shuokun Cheng , Jinghao Shi , Kun Sun

It has been demonstrated in various contexts that monotonicity leads to better explainability in neural networks. However, not every function can be well approximated by a monotone neural network. We demonstrate that monotonicity can still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Jakob Paul Zimmermann , Georg Loho

Muons from extensive air showers appear as rings in images taken with imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, such as VERITAS. These muon-ring images are used for the calibration of the VERITAS telescopes, however the calibration accuracy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Kevin Flanagan , John Quinn , Darryl Wright , Hugh Dickinson , Patrick Wilcox , Michael Laraia , Stephen Serjeant

Optical approaches have made great strides towards the goal of high-speed, energy-efficient computing necessary for modern deep learning and AI applications. Read-in and read-out of data, however, limit the overall performance of existing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Alexander Song , Sai Nikhilesh Murty Kottapalli , Rahul Goyal , Bernhard Schölkopf , Peer Fischer

Generative deep learning methods built upon Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) provide a great tool for predicting non-linear structure in cosmology. In this work we predict high resolution dark matter halos from large scale, low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-25 David Schaurecker , Yin Li , Jeremy Tinker , Shirley Ho , Alexandre Refregier

Structured low-rank (SLR) algorithms, which exploit annihilation relations between the Fourier samples of a signal resulting from different properties, is a powerful image reconstruction framework in several applications. This scheme relies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Aniket Pramanik , Hemant Aggarwal , Mathews Jacob

We establish a hybrid seesaw mechanism to explain small neutrino masses and predict cold dark matter candidate in the context of the B-L gauge symmetry extension of the Standard Model. In this model a new scalar doublet and two new fermion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Tong Li , Wei Chao

The chiral magnetic wave (CMW) is a collective mode in quark-gluon plasma originated from the chiral magnetic effect (CME) and chiral separation effect. Its detection in heavy-ion collisions is challenging due to significant background…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-02 Yuan-Sheng Zhao , Xu-Guang Huang

With the great promise of deep learning, discoveries of new particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may be imminent. Following the discovery of a new Beyond the Standard model particle in an all-hadronic channel, deep learning can also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-30 Jakub Filipek , Shih-Chieh Hsu , John Kruper , Kirtimaan Mohan , Benjamin Nachman

The system of light electroweakinos and heavy squarks gives rise to one of the most challenging signatures to detect at the LHC. It consists of missing transverse energy recoiled against a few hadronic jets originating either from QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-03 Rafał Masełek , Mihoko M. Nojiri , Kazuki Sakurai

Low-light image enhancement is a crucial preprocessing task for some complex vision tasks. Target detection, image segmentation, and image recognition outcomes are all directly impacted by the impact of image enhancement. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Mengfei Wu , Xucheng Xue , Taiji Lan , Xinwei Xu

We present a novel view that unifies two frameworks that aim to solve sequential prediction problems: learning to search (L2S) and recurrent neural networks (RNN). We point out equivalences between elements of the two frameworks. By…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Khanh Nguyen

A persistence of several anomalies in muon physics, such as the muon anomalous magnetic moment and the muonic hydrogen Lamb shift, hints at new light particles beyond the Standard Model. We address a subset of these models that have a new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-08 Chien-Yi Chen , Maxim Pospelov , Yi-Ming Zhong

Modern deep networks are highly complex and their inferential outcome very hard to interpret. This is a serious obstacle to their transparent deployment in safety-critical or bias-aware applications. This work contributes to post-hoc…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Konstantinos P. Panousis , Sotirios Chatzis

We consider simplified dark matter models where a dark matter candidate couples to the standard model (SM) particles via an $s$-channel spin-2 mediator, and study constraints on the model parameter space from the current LHC data. Our focus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-28 Sabine Kraml , Ursula Laa , Kentarou Mawatari , Kimiko Yamashita

We focus on a fundamental task of detecting meaningful line structures, a.k.a. semantic line, in natural scenes. Many previous methods regard this problem as a special case of object detection and adjust existing object detectors for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Kai Zhao , Qi Han , Chang-Bin Zhang , Jun Xu , Ming-Ming Cheng

Network compression is crucial to making the deep networks to be more efficient, faster, and generalizable to low-end hardware. Current network compression methods have two open problems: first, there lacks a theoretical framework to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Ziqi Zhou , Li Lian , Yilong Yin , Ze Wang