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We introduce the Mutual Information Machine (MIM), a probabilistic auto-encoder for learning joint distributions over observations and latent variables. MIM reflects three design principles: 1) low divergence, to encourage the encoder and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Micha Livne , Kevin Swersky , David J. Fleet

A Feed Forward Error Back Propagation Artificial Neural Network(ANN) algorithm is developed for electron/positron identification in a wide momentum region (10 - 300 GeV/c). The method was proposed for the Transition Radiation Detector of…

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The performance of muon reconstruction in CMS is evaluated using a large data sample of cosmic-ray muons recorded in 2008. Efficiencies of various high-level trigger, identification, and reconstruction algorithms have been measured for a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-27 CMS Collaboration

Advances in accelerator technology have led to significant improvements in the quality of muon beams over the past decades. Investigations of the muon and muonium enable precise measurements of fundamental constants, as well as searches for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-18 Siyuan Chen , Mingchen Sun , Jian Tang

Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve competitive performance across diverse natural language processing (NLP) tasks, yet pretraining is computationally demanding, making optimizer efficiency an important practical consideration. Muon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Jingru Li , Yibo Fan , Huan Li

Quantum machine learning integrates the strengths of quantum computing and machine learning, enabling models to learn complex features using fewer parameters than their classical counterparts. Due to the increasing complexity of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Emma Andrews , Prabhat Mishra

The numerical computations of many quantities of theoretical and phenomenological interest are plagued by statistical errors which increase exponentially with the distance of the sources in the relevant correlators. Notable examples are…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Leonardo Giusti , Marco Cè , Stefan Schaefer

Cosmic-ray muon tomography is a promising technique for border security applications, leveraging highly penetrating cosmic-ray muons and their interactions with various materials to generate 3D images of large and dense objects, such as…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Anzori Sh. Georgadze

A fast leading-order Monte Carlo generator for the process $e^+e^-\to\mu^+\mu^-\gamma$ is described. In fact, using the $e^+e^-\to\mu^+\mu^-\gamma $ process as an example, we provide a pedagogical demonstration of how a Monte Carlo…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-30 Z. K. Silagadze

Mutation analysis has many applications, such as assessing the quality of test cases, fault localization, test input generation, security analysis, etc. Such applications involve running test suite against a large number of program mutants…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Ali Ghanbari , Andrian Marcus

The Standard Model prediction for muon-electron scattering beyond leading order requires the inclusion of QCD contributions which cannot be computed perturbatively. At next-to- and next-to-next-to-leading order, they arise from one- and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-29 Matteo Fael , Massimo Passera

Flexible numerologies are being considered as part of designs for 5G systems to support vertical services with diverse requirements such as enhanced mobile broadband, ultra-reliable low-latency communications, and massive machine type…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Sridhar Rajagopal , Md. Saifur Rahman

This paper reports the development of TOUCANS, a new Monte Carlo neutron transport code fully written using the Geant4 toolkit. It aims at modeling complex systems easily and rapidly, thanks to a simple key-value input file. While its main…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-04-10 L. Thulliez , B. Mom , E. Dumonteil

The past several decades have seen significant advancement in applications using cosmic-ray muons for tomography scanning of unknown objects. One of the most promising developments is the application of this technique in border security for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-05 Z. Zaher , H. Lay , T. Dorigo , A. Giammanco , V. Gulik , C. Hrytsiuk , V. A. Kudryavtsev , M. Lagrange , T. Metspalu , G. C. Strong , C. Turkoglu , P. Vischia

We introduce the Mutual Information Machine (MIM), a novel formulation of representation learning, using a joint distribution over the observations and latent state in an encoder/decoder framework. Our key principles are symmetry and mutual…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-10 Micha Livne , Kevin Swersky , David J. Fleet

The Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm is a widely recognised as an efficient method for sampling a specified posterior distribution. However, when the posterior is multi-modal, conventional MCMC algorithms either tend to become…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-19 Yi-Ming Hu , Martin Hendry , Ik Siong Heng

With the complication of future communication scenarios, most conventional signal processing technologies of multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) become unreliable, which are designed based on ideal assumptions, such as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Yuhao Chi , Lei Liu , Guanghui Song , Ying Li , Yong Liang Guan , Chau Yuen

Computationally inexpensive algorithm for detecting of dispersed transients has been developed using Cumulative Sums (CUSUM) scheme for detecting abrupt changes in statistical characteristics of the signal. The efficiency of the algorithm…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-28 Gene Soudlenkov , Vyacheslav V. Kitaev

In the Muon package under study, the tracks are extrapolated using an algorithm which accounts for the magnetic field and the ionization (dE/dx). We improved the calculation of the field dependent term to increase the muon detection…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Milstene , G. Fisk , A. Para

We present an efficient self-contained algorithm for computing the modified Bessel function of the first kind $I_{\nu}(z)$, implemented in a robust Fortran code supporting double and quadruple (quad) precision. The algorithm overcomes the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Mofreh R. Zaghloul , Steven G. Johnson