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The search for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) at collider experiments requires model-independent strategies to avoid missing possible discoveries of unexpected signals. Anomaly detection (AD) techniques offer a promising approach…

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In recent years, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have won numerous contests in pattern recognition and machine learning. ANNS have been applied to problems ranging from speech recognition to prediction of protein secondary structure,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-07-09 Kanhaiya Gupta

Machine learning techniques in particle physics are most powerful when they are trained directly on data, to avoid sensitivity to theoretical uncertainties or an underlying bias on the expected signal. To be able to train on data in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-21 Andrew Blance , Michael Spannowsky , Philip Waite

The lack of evidence for new interactions and particles at the Large Hadron Collider has motivated the high-energy physics community to explore model-agnostic data-analysis approaches to search for new physics. Autoencoders are unsupervised…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-20 Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Michael Spannowsky , Michihisa Takeuchi

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

There is a growing need for machine learning-based anomaly detection strategies to broaden the search for Beyond-the-Standard-Model (BSM) physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and elsewhere. The first step of any anomaly detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-18 Gregor Kasieczka , Radha Mastandrea , Vinicius Mikuni , Benjamin Nachman , Mariel Pettee , David Shih

Many domains of high energy physics analysis are starting to explore machine learning techniques. Powerful methods can be used to identify and measure rare processes from previously insurmountable backgrounds. One of the most profound…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-16 Benjamin Tannenwald , Christopher Neu , Ang Li , Gracemarie Buehlmann , Anna Cuddeback , Leigh Hatfield , Ruhi Parvatam , Colby Thompson

We propose a supervised anomaly detection method based on neural density estimators, where the negative log likelihood is used for the anomaly score. Density estimators have been widely used for unsupervised anomaly detection. By the recent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-15 Tomoharu Iwata , Yuki Yamanaka

Vector boson fusion proposed initially as an alternative channel for finding heavy Higgs has now established itself as a crucial search scheme to probe different properties of the Higgs boson or for new physics. We explore the merit of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-20 Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Akanksha Bhardwaj , Partha Konar , Aruna Kumar Nayak

Machine learning techniques are becoming an integral component of data analysis in High Energy Physics (HEP). These tools provide a significant improvement in sensitivity over traditional analyses by exploiting subtle patterns in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-10-04 Aishik Ghosh , Benjamin Nachman , Daniel Whiteson

Much hope for finding new physics phenomena at microscopic scale relies on the observations obtained from High Energy Physics experiments, like the ones performed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). However, current experiments do not…

We deploy an advanced Machine Learning (ML) environment, leveraging a multi-scale cross-attention encoder for event classification, towards the identification of the $gg\to H\to hh\to b\bar b b\bar b$ process at the High Luminosity Large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-16 A. Hammad , S. Moretti , M. Nojiri

In many extensions of the Standard Model the Higgs boson can decay into two light scalars each of which then subsequently decay into two photons. The underlying event is h $\to$ 4$\gamma$, but the kinematics from boosted light scalar decays…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 Benjamin Sheff , Noah Steinberg , James D. Wells

We present an application of anomaly detection techniques based on deep recurrent autoencoders to the problem of detecting gravitational wave signals in laser interferometers. Trained on noise data, this class of algorithms could detect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-15 Eric A. Moreno , Jean-Roch Vlimant , Maria Spiropulu , Bartlomiej Borzyszkowski , Maurizio Pierini

The detection of anomalies is essential mining task for the security and reliability in computer systems. Logs are a common and major data source for anomaly detection methods in almost every computer system. They collect a range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Sasho Nedelkoski , Jasmin Bogatinovski , Alexander Acker , Jorge Cardoso , Odej Kao

Analyses of collider data, often assisted by modern Machine Learning methods, condense a number of observables into a few powerful discriminants for the separation of the targeted signal process from the contributing backgrounds. These…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Philipp Windischhofer , Miha Zgubic , Daniela Bortoletto

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

Active learning has been utilized as an efficient tool in building anomaly detection models by leveraging expert feedback. In an active learning framework, a model queries samples to be labeled by experts and re-trains the model with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Minkyung Kim , Junsik Kim , Jongmin Yu , Jun Kyun Choi

In this paper, we explore the use of advanced machine learning (ML) techniques to enhance the sensitivity of double Higgs boson searches in the \( HH \to b\bar{b}\gamma\gamma \) decay channel at $\sqrt{s} = $ 13.6 TeV. Two ML models are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-11 Mohamed Belfkir , Mohamed Amin Loualidi , Salah Nasri

In particle physics, semi-supervised machine learning is an attractive option to reduce model dependencies searches beyond the Standard Model. When utilizing semi-supervised techniques in training machine learning models in the search for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-09-16 Benjamin Lieberman , Joshua Choma , Salah-Eddine Dahbi , Bruce Mellado , Xifeng Ruan