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Neural network-based anomaly detection methods have shown to achieve high performance. However, they require a large amount of training data for each task. We propose a neural network-based meta-learning method for supervised anomaly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-02 Tomoharu Iwata , Atsutoshi Kumagai

At the CERN Large Hadron Collider experiment, the non-resonant double Higgs production via vector-boson fusion represents a unique mean to probe the VVHH (V=Z, W$^{\pm}$) Higgs self-coupling at the current center of mass energies. Such a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-03-01 Brunella D'Anzi , Nicola De Filippis , Walaa Elmetenawee , Giorgia Miniello

Machine learning is becoming increasingly popular in the context of particle physics. Supervised learning, which uses labeled Monte Carlo (MC) simulations, remains one of the most widely used methods for discriminating signals beyond the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-29 Franck Rothen , Samuel Klein , Matthew Leigh , Tobias Golling

Current deep learning methods for anomaly detection in text rely on supervisory signals in inliers that may be unobtainable or bespoke architectures that are difficult to tune. We study a simpler alternative: fine-tuning Transformers on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Kimberly T. Mai , Toby Davies , Lewis D. Griffin

The application of machine learning techniques for anomaly detection in particle accelerators has gained popularity in recent years. These efforts have ranged from the analysis of quenches in radio frequency cavities and superconducting…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-12-16 Jonathan P. Edelen , Nathan M. Cook

High-dimensional feature spaces in particle physics events pose a fundamental challenge to density-estimation-based weakly supervised anomaly detection, whose fidelity degrades rapidly with an increasing number of dimensions. We propose a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-30 Runze Li , Benjamin Nachman , Dennis Noll

Anomaly detection in High Energy Physics requires identifying rare signals against overwhelming backgrounds, without prior knowledge of the signal. We present the first application of masked-token prediction, a technique from Large Language…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-24 Ambre Visive , Roberto Ruiz de Austri , Polina Moskvitina , Clara Nellist , Sascha Caron

We investigate a method of model-agnostic anomaly detection through studying jets, collimated sprays of particles produced in high-energy collisions. We train a transformer neural network to encode simulated QCD "event space" dijets into a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Barry M. Dillon , Radha Mastandrea , Benjamin Nachman

With the Large Hadron Collider's Run 3 in progress, the 125 GeV Higgs boson couplings are being examined in greater detail, while searching for additional scalars. Multi-Higgs frameworks allow Higgs couplings to significantly deviate from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-30 Fernando Abreu de Souza , Rafael Boto , Miguel Crispim Romão , Pedro N. Figueiredo , Jorge C. Romão , João P. Silva

Anomaly detection is to identify samples that do not conform to the distribution of the normal data. Due to the unavailability of anomalous data, training a supervised deep neural network is a cumbersome task. As such, unsupervised methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Vahid Reza Khazaie , Anthony Wong , John Taylor Jewell , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Anomaly detection is critical for the secure and reliable operation of industrial control systems. As our reliance on such complex cyber-physical systems grows, it becomes paramount to have automated methods for detecting anomalies,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Mayra Macas , Chunming Wu , Walter Fuertes

This technical report describes two methods that were developed for Task 2 of the DCASE 2020 challenge. The challenge involves an unsupervised learning to detect anomalous sounds, thus only normal machine working condition samples are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-22 Alexandrine Ribeiro , Luis Miguel Matos , Pedro Jose Pereira , Eduardo C. Nunes , Andre L. Ferreira , Paulo Cortez , Andre Pilastri

In this work, a novel deep neural network, designed to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of unsupervised sound anomaly detection, is presented. The proposed model exploits an attention module and separable convolutions to identify…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-14 Michael Neri , Marco Carli

In this paper, we show how to adapt and deploy anomaly detection algorithms based on deep autoencoders, for the unsupervised detection of new physics signatures in the extremely challenging environment of a real-time event selection system…

Anomaly detection methods used in a recent search for new phenomena by CMS at the CERN LHC are presented. The methods use machine learning to detect anomalous jets produced in the decay of new massive particles. The effectiveness of these…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-24 CMS Collaboration

High $p_T$ Higgs production at hadron colliders provides a direct probe of the internal structure of the $gg \to H$ loop with the $H \to b\bar{b}$ decay offering the most statistics due to the large branching ratio. Despite the overwhelming…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-05 Joshua Lin , Marat Freytsis , Ian Moult , Benjamin Nachman

Determining the form of the Higgs potential is one of the most exciting challenges of modern particle physics. Higgs pair production directly probes the Higgs self-coupling and should be observed in the near future at the High-Luminosity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-15 Radha Mastandrea , Benjamin Nachman , Tilman Plehn

Anomaly detection on the attributed network has recently received increasing attention in many research fields, such as cybernetic anomaly detection and financial fraud detection. With the wide application of deep learning on graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Yuanjun Shi

Three important issues are often encountered in Supervised and Semi-Supervised Classification: class-memberships are unreliable for some training units (label noise), a proportion of observations might depart from the main structure of the…

Applications · Statistics 2020-07-02 Andrea Cappozzo , Francesca Greselin , Thomas Brendan Murphy

In this work, we deep-learn light charged Higgs signal in top quark decays which poses difficulties due to strong W boson contamination. We construct Deep Neural Networks (DNN) with appropriate architecture and determine signal extraction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-06 Guleser. K. Demir , Nasuf Sonmez , Hatice Dogan