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Jets with a large radius $R\gtrsim 1$ and grooming algorithms are widely used to fully capture the decay products of boosted heavy particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Unlike most discriminating variables used in such studies, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Benjamin Nachman , Pascal Nef , Ariel Schwartzman , Maximilian Swiatlowski , Chaowaroj Wanotayaroj

The commonly used latent space embedding techniques, such as Principal Component Analysis, Factor Analysis, and manifold learning techniques, are typically used for learning effective representations of homogeneous data. However, they do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Yasin Yilmaz , Mehmet Aktukmak , Alfred O. Hero

We apply techniques from Bayesian generative statistical modeling to uncover hidden features in jet substructure observables that discriminate between different a priori unknown underlying short distance physical processes in multi-jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-24 Barry M. Dillon , Darius A. Faroughy , Jernej F. Kamenik

QCD-jets at the LHC are described by simple physics principles. We show how super-resolution generative networks can learn the underlying structures and use them to improve the resolution of jet images. We test this approach on massless…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-03 Pierre Baldi , Lukas Blecher , Anja Butter , Julian Collado , Jessica N. Howard , Fabian Keilbach , Tilman Plehn , Gregor Kasieczka , Daniel Whiteson

The study of the substructure of collimated particles from quarks and gluons, or jets, has the promise to reveal the details how color charges interact with the QCD plasma medium created in colliders such as RHIC and the LHC. Traditional…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-05 Yue Shi Lai

At the extreme energies of the Large Hadron Collider, massive particles can be produced at such high velocities that their hadronic decays are collimated and the resulting jets overlap. Deducing whether the substructure of an observed jet…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-06-01 Pierre Baldi , Kevin Bauer , Clara Eng , Peter Sadowski , Daniel Whiteson

Recent innovations from machine learning allow for data unfolding, without binning and including correlations across many dimensions. We describe a set of known, upgraded, and new methods for ML-based unfolding. The performance of these…

The study of the internal structure of hadronic jets has become in recent years a very active area of research in particle physics. Jet substructure techniques are increasingly used in experimental analyses by the LHC collaborations, both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-10 Simone Marzani , Gregory Soyez , Michael Spannowsky

The task of reconstructing particles from low-level detector response data to predict the set of final state particles in collision events represents a set-to-set prediction task requiring the use of multiple features and their correlations…

Fitting an unknown number of hyperplanes to data is a fundamental yet challenging problem in machine learning, characterized by its non-convexity, non-differentiability, and unknown model order. Existing approaches often struggle with local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zhiqin Cheng , Yu Zhan , Mingjin Zhang , Lingbo Liu , Liang Lin

Generative modeling of 3D shapes has become an important problem due to its relevance to many applications across Computer Vision, Graphics, and VR. In this paper we build upon recently introduced 3D mesh-convolutional Variational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Jake Levinson , Avneesh Sud , Ameesh Makadia

We introduce a generative model to simulate radiation patterns within a jet using the Lund jet plane. We show that using an appropriate neural network architecture with a stochastic generation of images, it is possible to construct a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Stefano Carrazza , Frédéric A. Dreyer

A complete representation of 3D objects requires characterizing the space of deformations in an interpretable manner, from articulations of a single instance to changes in shape across categories. In this work, we improve on a prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Stavros Tsogkas , Sven Dickinson , Allan Jepson

Latent representations are an important theme in modern machine learning. Any network training with the notion of locality introduces a latent geometry which we can analyze with the help of differential geometry, specifically information…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-07 Rebecca Maria Kuntz , Tilman Plehn , Björn Malte Schäfer , Benedikt Schosser , Sophia Vent

As recent generative models can generate photo-realistic images, people seek to understand the mechanism behind the generation process. Interpretable generation process is beneficial to various image editing applications. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Yu-Ding Lu , Hsin-Ying Lee , Hung-Yu Tseng , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Unfolding is an important procedure in particle physics experiments which corrects for detector effects and provides differential cross section measurements that can be used for a number of downstream tasks, such as extracting fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-19 Jay Chan , Benjamin Nachman

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the first machine that provides high enough energy to produce large numbers of boosted top quarks. The decay products of these top quarks are confined to a cone in the top quark flight direction and can be…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-09-14 Sebastian Schätzel

A recent study in turbulent flow simulation demonstrated the potential of generative diffusion models for fast 3D surrogate modeling. This approach eliminates the need for specifying initial states or performing lengthy simulations,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-30 Abdullah Saydemir , Marten Lienen , Stephan Günnemann

The study of the shape and sub-structure of high p_T jets produced in hadron collisions is becoming an increasingly important component of LHC phenomenology in the context of new particle discoveries. We study here the state of the art for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-19 Mrinal Dasgupta

Representing 3D shape is a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence, which has numerous applications within computer vision and graphics. One avenue that has recently begun to be explored is the use of latent representations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Stavros Tsogkas , Allan Jepson , Sven Dickinson