arXiv:2606. 10959v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Spacecraft navigation often requires Bayesian inference from sparse nonlinear measurements that produce curved, multimodal, or geometrically constrained posterior distributions.
By Batu Candan, Simone Servadio
The paper introduces the Belief Flow Filter (BFF), a generative filtering framework that encodes the evolving posterior distribution directly into flow matching model weights and updates them via test‑time gradient descent. By avoiding particle representations and Gaussian assumptions, BFF aligns structurally with Bayesian filtering and targets the recursive filtering operator. Empirical results on five physical systems—including chaotic dynamics, sparse observations, and a tokamak plasma estimation task—show that BFF outperforms existing methods in most benchmark metrics.
By Ruiqi Feng, Chongyi Wang, Tao Zhang, Tailin Wu
arXiv:2607. 01012v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data assimilation models state dynamics conditioned on sequential observations, and has wide-ranging scientific applications.
By Chandni Nagda, Mayank Shrivastavam Gudrun Thorkelsdottir, Gan Zhang, Morteza Mardani, Arindam Banerjee
arXiv:2606. 14373v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The workflow from particle collision to physics analysis passes through a series of reconstruction steps that are traditionally modular and disconnected, with no shared representation linking low-level detector data to high-level analysis tasks.
By Farouk Mokhtar, Joosep Pata, Michael Kagan, Javier Duarte
arXiv:2610.11737v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Bayesian physics-informed neural networks (B-PINNs) are a popular framework for parameter and state inference from sparse or noisy observations. They...
By Michael Obermayr, Robert Peharz
The paper introduces a model calibration method using optimal transport to address discrepancies between simulation and experimental data in high-dimensional machine learning applications. Applied to jet tagging in particle physics, the technique calibrates a 128‑dimensional latent representation from a general‑purpose classifier, ensuring downstream derived quantities are properly calibrated. This enables more reliable use of foundation models for jet flavor analysis in LHC experiments and offers a general framework for correcting high‑dimensional simulations across scientific fields.
By Malte Algren, Tobias Golling, Francesco Armando Di Bello, Christopher Pollard
Generative Monte Carlo (GMC) is a new particle transport simulation method that embeds generative AI into solving the linear Boltzmann equation. By treating cell transmission as a conditional generation task, neural networks trained with conditional flow matching produce particle exit states—position, direction, and path length—without simulating scattering histories. GMC generalizes across materials using optical coordinate scaling, matches standard Monte Carlo’s statistical accuracy and convergence, and achieves constant‑cost per cell transmission, offering significant speedups in optically thick regimes.
By Joseph A. Farmer, Aidan Murray, Johannes Krotz, Ryan G. McClarren
arXiv:2609.37227v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Inference-time steering adapts pretrained diffusion and flow-based models to new tasks, e.g., to generate samples from a conditional distribution or sa...
By Adhithyan Kalaivanan, Zheng Zhao, Jens Sj\"olund, Fredrik Lindsten
Neural Transport Nested Sampling (NTNS) is a new sampling algorithm that merges nested sampling with neural flow-based methods to sample from Boltzmann distributions of molecular systems. It employs a flow-matching velocity as the drift in a Metropolis–Hastings corrected Langevin kernel within a nested sampling loop, requiring only target energy evaluations and enabling scalable estimation of the full partition function for high-dimensional particle systems. Benchmarks on Lennard–Jones clusters up to 55 particles show NTNS reduces interatomic distance and energy Wasserstein errors by more than an order of magnitude compared to leading neural baselines, while also providing a calibrated, temperature-resolved partition function estimate that captures phase structure from a single run.
By David Yallup, Will Handley
The paper introduces a Deep Sets surrogate for optimal transport (OT) that respects key metric properties—non-negativity, exchange symmetry, and zero self-distance—while leaving the triangle inequality unconstrained. Applied to the Energy Mover's Distance between collider events, the Metric-Aware Particle Flow Network achieves percent‑level mean absolute percentage error and markedly higher inference throughput compared to other exact and approximate methods. The architectural constraints also dramatically reduce triangle‑inequality violations, improving geometric fidelity across a large set of held‑out event triplets.
By Lauren Hay, Rishabh Jain, Matt LeBlanc, Jennifer Roloff
arXiv:2609.30498v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Sequential inference estimates latent states from noisy and incomplete observations. Particle Filters (PFs), a class of Monte Carlo methods based on...
By Apoorv Srivastava, Eric Darve
Panda Diplomacy introduces a point‑cloud self‑distillation framework that enables a single foundation‑model architecture and objective to be pre‑trained across three distinct particle‑detector modalities—liquid argon time‑projection chambers, collider TPCs, and water Cherenkov detectors—without extensive modification. Using only 1,000 labeled images for downstream adaptation, the resulting Panda V2 model matches or surpasses specialized baselines that require orders of magnitude more supervision, achieving state‑of‑the‑art particle‑clustering performance with 70× fewer labeled events on sPHENIX and up to 1,000× fewer labels on LArTPC data. Linear probes further demonstrate that the model’s latent space captures physically meaningful structures such as particle causality and track curvature.
By Samuel Young, C\'esar Jes\'us-Valls, Kazuhiro Terao