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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…

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Collisions at high-energy particle colliders are a traditionally fruitful source of exotic particle discoveries. Finding these rare particles requires solving difficult signal-versus-background classification problems, hence machine…

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Despite extensive theoretical motivation for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) of particle physics, searches at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have found no significant evidence for BSM physics. Therefore, it is essential to broaden…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-21 Jack H. Collins , Kiel Howe , Benjamin Nachman

Machine learning has been used in high energy physics for a long time, primarily at the analysis level with supervised classification. Quantum computing was postulated in the early 1980s as way to perform computations that would not be…

Some of the most astonishing and prominent properties of Quantum Mechanics, such as entanglement and Bell nonlocality, have only been studied extensively in dedicated low-energy laboratory setups. The feasibility of these studies in the…

In an era where data underpins decision-making across science, politics, and economics, ensuring high data quality is of paramount importance. Conventional computing algorithms for enhancing data quality, including anomaly detection, demand…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Sven Groppe , Valter Uotila , Jinghua Groppe

The advent of quantum computers has justified the development of quantum machine learning algorithms , based on the adaptation of the principles of machine learning to the formalism of qubits. Among such quantum algorithms, anomaly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Sebastiano Corli , Lorenzo Moro , Daniele Dragoni , Massimiliano Dispenza , Enrico Prati

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

We present studies of quantum algorithms exploiting machine learning to classify events of interest from background events, one of the most representative machine learning applications in high-energy physics. We focus on variational quantum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-06 Koji Terashi , Michiru Kaneda , Tomoe Kishimoto , Masahiko Saito , Ryu Sawada , Junichi Tanaka

Anomaly detection is a crucial task in cyber security. Technological advancement brings new cyber-physical threats like network intrusion, financial fraud, identity theft, and property invasion. In the rapidly changing world, with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Sounak Bhowmik , Himanshu Thapliyal

We propose a novel use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as unsupervised anomaly detectors in particle physics. Using lightweight LLM-like networks with encoder-based architectures trained to reconstruct background events via masked-token…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-28 Ambre Visive , Polina Moskvitina , Clara Nellist , Roberto Ruiz de Austri , Sascha Caron

We present a novel hybrid quantum-classical vision transformer architecture incorporating quantum orthogonal neural networks (QONNs) to enhance performance and computational efficiency in high-energy physics applications. Building on…

Detecting mission-critical anomalous events and data is a crucial challenge across various industries, including finance, healthcare, and energy. Quantum computing has recently emerged as a powerful tool for tackling several machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Jason Zev Ludmir , Sophia Rebello , Jacob Ruiz , Tirthak Patel

We investigate the possibility to apply quantum machine learning techniques for data analysis, with particular regard to an interesting use-case in high-energy physics. We propose an anomaly detection algorithm based on a parametrized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Simone Bordoni , Denis Stanev , Tommaso Santantonio , Stefano Giagu

With increasing energy and luminosity available at the Large Hadron collider (LHC), we get a chance to take a pure bottom-up approach solely based on data. This will extend the scope of our understanding about Nature without relying on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-16 Minho Kim , Pyungwon Ko , Jae-hyeon Park , Myeonghun Park

Photonic Quantum Computers provides several benefits over the discrete qubit-based paradigm of quantum computing. By using the power of continuous-variable computing we build an anomaly detection model to use on searches for New Physics.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-01 Andrew Blance , Michael Spannowsky

We apply several machine learning algorithms to the problem of anomaly detection in operational data for large-scale, high-voltage electric power grids. We observe important differences in the performance of the algorithms. Neural networks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Marc Gillioz , Guillaume Dubuis , Étienne Voutaz , Philippe Jacquod

We investigate whether a novel method of quantum machine learning (QML) can identify anomalous events in X-ray light curves as transient events and apply it to detect such events from the XMM-Newton 4XMM-DR14 catalog. The architecture we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-14 Taiki Kawamuro , Shinya Yamada , Shigehiro Nagataki , Shunji Matsuura , Yusuke Sakai , Satoshi Yamada

In this paper we propose a new strategy, based on anomaly detection methods, to search for new physics phenomena at colliders independently of the details of such new events. For this purpose, machine learning techniques are trained using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-30 M. Crispim Romao , N. F. Castro , R. Pedro

The Hamiltonian of an isolated quantum mechanical system determines its dynamics and physical behaviour. This study investigates the possibility of learning and utilising a system's Hamiltonian and its variational thermal state estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Jack Y. Araz , Michael Spannowsky