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Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) rely on detailed simulations of particle collisions to build expectations of what experimental data may look like under different theory modeling assumptions. Petabytes of simulated data are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-02-06 Michela Paganini , Luke de Oliveira , Benjamin Nachman

Detailed detector simulation is the major consumer of CPU resources at LHCb, having used more than 90% of the total computing budget during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. As data is collected by the upgraded LHCb detector…

Heterogeneous graph convolutional networks have gained great popularity in tackling various network analytical tasks on heterogeneous network data, ranging from link prediction to node classification. However, most existing works ignore the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Pengyang Yu , Chaofan Fu , Yanwei Yu , Chao Huang , Zhongying Zhao , Junyu Dong

Heterogeneous graphs, comprising diverse node and edge types connected through varied relations, are ubiquitous in real-world applications. Message-passing heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) have emerged as a powerful model class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Junwei Su , Lingjun Mao , Zheng Da , Chuan Wu

Heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) have demonstrated strong capability in modeling complex semantics across multi-type nodes and relations. However, their scalability to large-scale graphs remains challenging due to structural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Fuyan Ou , Siqi Ai , Yulin Hu

Numerical simulation of multi-phase fluid dynamics in porous media is critical for many energy and environmental applications in Earth's subsurface. Data-driven surrogate modeling provides computationally inexpensive alternatives to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Jiamin Jiang , Bo Guo

Machine Learning surrogates for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), particularly Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Transformers, have become a new important approach for accelerating physics simulations. However, we identify a critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Paul Garnier , Vincent Lannelongue , Elie Hachem

Simulating physics processes and detector responses is essential in high energy physics and represents significant computing costs. Generative machine learning has been demonstrated to be potentially powerful in accelerating simulations,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-05 Tadej Novak , Borut Paul Kerševan

In high-energy physics, the increasing luminosity and detector granularity at the Large Hadron Collider are driving the need for more efficient data processing solutions. Machine Learning has emerged as a promising tool for reconstructing…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-01 Fotis I. Giasemis , Vladimir Lončar , Bertrand Granado , Vladimir Vava Gligorov

The heterogeneity of breast cancer presents considerable challenges for its early detection, prognosis, and treatment selection. Convolutional neural networks often neglect the spatial relationships within histopathological images, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Akhila Krishna K , Ravi Kant Gupta , Nikhil Cherian Kurian , Pranav Jeevan , Amit Sethi

Most of the computing resources pledged to the LHCb experiment at CERN are necessary to the production of simulated samples used to predict resolution functions on the reconstructed quantities and the reconstruction and selection…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-01-06 Lucio Anderlini

Graph convolutional network (GCN) based approaches have achieved significant progress for solving complex, graph-structured problems. GCNs incorporate the graph structure information and the node (or edge) features through message passing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Saurav Manchanda , Da Zheng , George Karypis

Natural physical, chemical, and biological dynamical systems are often complex, with heterogeneous components interacting in diverse ways. We show how simple graph neural networks can be designed to jointly learn the interaction rules and…

The physics reach of the HL-LHC will be limited by how efficiently the experiments can use the available computing resources, i.e. affordable software and computing are essential. The development of novel methods for charged particle…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-08 Catherine Biscarat , Sylvain Caillou , Charline Rougier , Jan Stark , Jad Zahreddine

This work presents a novel reconfigurable architecture for Low Latency Graph Neural Network (LL-GNN) designs for particle detectors, delivering unprecedented low latency performance. Incorporating FPGA-based GNNs into particle detectors…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Zhiqiang Que , Hongxiang Fan , Marcus Loo , He Li , Michaela Blott , Maurizio Pierini , Alexander Tapper , Wayne Luk

High energy physics experiments essentially rely on simulated data for physics analyses. However, running detailed simulation models requires a tremendous amount of computation resources. New approaches to speed up detector simulation are…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-03-01 Alexander Rogachev , Fedor Ratnikov

Molecular dynamics simulations can generate atomically detailed trajectories of complex systems, but analyzing these dynamics can be challenging when systems lack well-established quantitative descriptors (features). Graph neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zihan Pengmei , Spencer C. Guo , Chatipat Lorpaiboon , Aaron R. Dinner

In this paper, we explore the potential of generative machine learning models as an alternative to the computationally expensive Monte Carlo (MC) simulations commonly used by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments. Our objective is to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-21 Allison Xu , Shuo Han , Xiangyang Ju , Haichen Wang

We present a fast simulation application based on a Deep Neural Network, designed to create large analysis-specific datasets. Taking as an example the generation of W+jet events produced in sqrt(s)= 13 TeV proton-proton collisions, we train…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Cheng Chen , Olmo Cerri , Thong Q. Nguyen , Jean-Roch Vlimant , Maurizio Pierini

The next decade will see an order of magnitude increase in data collected by high-energy physics experiments, driven by the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). The reconstruction of charged particle trajectories (tracks) has always been a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-25 Anthony Correia , Fotis I. Giasemis , Nabil Garroum , Vladimir Vava Gligorov , Bertrand Granado