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The identification of jets containing $b$ hadrons is important for the physics programme of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Several algorithms to identify jets containing $b$ hadrons are described, ranging from those…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-04-06 ATLAS Collaboration

Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) data is organized in multiple levels (per-subject, per-day, etc.) and this particular structure should be taken into account in machine learning algorithms used in EMA like decision trees and its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Gerasimos Spanakis , Gerhard Weiss , Anne Roefs

Studying heavy-flavor jets in pp collision is important since they can test pQCD calculations and be used as a reference for heavy-ion collisions. Jets in this analysis are reconstructed from charged particles using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-28 Hadi Hassan , Neelkamal Mallick , D. J. Kim

The identification of b jets is a crucial issue to study and characterize various channels like top quark events and many new physics scenarios. Different b-tagging techniques are defined in CMS which benefit from the long life time, high…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-01-26 Cristina Ferro

Gradient boosted trees are competition-winning, general-purpose, non-parametric regressors, which exploit sequential model fitting and gradient descent to minimize a specific loss function. The most popular implementations are tailored to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Lorenzo Nespoli , Vasco Medici

The MUST (Mass Unspecific Supervised Tagging) method has proven to be successful in implementing generic jet taggers capable of discriminating various signals over a wide range of jet masses. We implement the MUST concept by using eXtreme…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-26 J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra , E. Arganda , F. R. Joaquim , R. M. Sandá Seoane , J. F. Seabra

High-level triggering is a vital component in many modern particle physics experiments. This paper describes a modification to the standard boosted decision tree (BDT) classifier, the so-called "bonsai" BDT, that has the following important…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-11 Vladimir Vava Gligorov , Mike Williams

The ubiquity of top-rich final states in the context of beyond the Standard Model (BSM) searches has led to their status as extensively studied signatures at the LHC. Over the past decade, numerous endeavours have been undertaken in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-23 Rameswar Sahu , Saiyad Ashanujjaman , Kirtiman Ghosh

Modern machine learning techniques, such as convolutional, recurrent and recursive neural networks, have shown promise for jet substructure at the Large Hadron Collider. For example, they have demonstrated effectiveness at boosted top or W…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-17 Katherine Fraser , Matthew D. Schwartz

Jet tagging has become an essential tool for new physics searches at the high-energy frontier. For jets that contain energetic charged leptons we introduce Feature Extended Supervised Tagging (FEST) which, in addition to jet substructure,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra

Neural networks have proved to be very robust at processing unstructured data like images, text, videos, and audio. However, it has been observed that their performance is not up to the mark in tabular data; hence tree-based models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Tushar Sarkar

Interest in deep learning in collider physics has been growing in recent years, specifically in applying these methods in jet classification, anomaly detection, particle identification etc. Among those, jet classification using neural…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-05 Camellia Bose , Amit Chakraborty , Shreecheta Chowdhury , Saunak Dutta

In this article, we review recent machine learning methods used in challenging particle identification of heavy-boosted particles at high-energy colliders. Our primary focus is on attention-based Transformer networks. We report the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-19 A. Hammad , Mihoko M Nojiri

We present the development and validation of a new multivariate $b$ jet identification algorithm ("$b$ tagger") used at the CDF experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron. At collider experiments, $b$ taggers allow one to distinguish particle jets…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-12-07 J. Freeman , W. Ketchum , J. D. Lewis , S. Poprocki , A. Pronko , V. Rusu , P. Wittich

Machine learning based on convolutional neural networks can be used to study jet images from the LHC. Top tagging in fat jets offers a well-defined framework to establish our DeepTop approach and compare its performance to QCD-based top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-17 Gregor Kasieczka , Tilman Plehn , Michael Russell , Torben Schell

We describe a strategy for constructing a neural network jet substructure tagger which powerfully discriminates boosted decay signals while remaining largely uncorrelated with the jet mass. This reduces the impact of systematic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-11-08 Chase Shimmin , Peter Sadowski , Pierre Baldi , Edison Weik , Daniel Whiteson , Edward Goul , Andreas Søgaard

Boosted decision trees enjoy popularity in a variety of applications; however, for large-scale datasets, the cost of training a decision tree in each round can be prohibitively expensive. Inspired by ideas from the multi-arm bandit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Maryam Aziz , Jesse Anderton , Javed Aslam

The identification of jets originating from beauty quarks in heavy-ion collisions is important to study the properties of the hot and dense matter produced in such collisions. A variety of algorithms for b-jet tagging was elaborated at the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Gyulnara Eyyubova , Lukáš Kramárik

We present an algorithm for classification tasks on big data. Experiments conducted as part of this study indicate that the algorithm can be as accurate as ensemble methods such as random forests or gradient boosted trees. Unlike ensemble…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-27 Rajiv Sambasivan , Sourish Das

Jet flavour tagging is crucial in experimental high-energy physics. A tagging algorithm, DeepJetTransformer, is presented, which exploits a transformer-based neural network that is substantially faster to train than state-of-the-art graph…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-02-11 Freya Blekman , Florencia Canelli , Alexandre De Moor , Kunal Gautam , Armin Ilg , Anna Macchiolo , Eduardo Ploerer