arXiv:2606. 14813v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Jet tagging at the Large Hadron Collider increasingly relies on deep learning models trained on massive simulated datasets, leading to high computational costs and limited robustness to detector mismodeling.
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.
The paper introduces a data‑driven method for pairing events at the Large Hadron Collider using the energy mover's distance (EMD) to measure similarity, thereby creating augmentation‑free views for self‑supervised pre‑training. By matching distinct events based on EMD, the approach preserves the physics content of each event without handcrafted distortions. Experiments on QCD jets demonstrate that this pairing technique yields semantic jet embeddings with downstream discrimination power comparable to or better than traditional augmentation‑based baselines.
arXiv:2601.11719v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Self-supervised learning, in the context of foundation model training, is a powerful pre-training method for learning feature representations witho...
The paper compares convolutional neural networks (CNN), Vision Transformers (ViT), and hierarchical Swin Transformers for quark‑gluon jet classification using a three‑channel jet‑image representation. CNN and Swin models outperform ViT, indicating that local jet substructure is crucial for discrimination. The study also shows that block‑wise fine‑tuning, Momentum Contrast pretraining, and a compact Swin variant can improve performance while reducing parameters.
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.
The largest machine learning models in particle physics are also the most expensive to train, yet the return on scaling a given architecture cannot be estimated before that compute is spent. Scaling laws have been fit for jets, but none has yet been shown to predict the performance of models it was not fit on.
arXiv:2607. 23377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The largest machine learning models in particle physics are also the most expensive to train, yet the return on scaling a given architecture cannot be estimated before that compute is spent.
VyPER is a new geometric learning framework that reconstructs particle collider events by representing them as hypergraphs with a physics-inspired topology. It tackles two key tasks: assigning measured jets and leptons to their parent particles through supervised hyperedge classification, and predicting neutrino kinematics using a diffusion model, all optimized jointly with a shared loss function. The authors evaluate VyPER on various proton‑proton collision processes, showing improved performance over existing analytical and machine‑learning methods and enabling more precise measurements in Higgs, electroweak, and top‑quark studies.
arXiv:2512. 04149v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Next token prediction is an attractive pre-training task for jet foundation models, in that it is simulation free and enables excellent generative capabilities that can transfer across datasets.
The paper introduces HyPER, a hypergraph-based graph neural network architecture designed to reconstruct short-lived particles in collider experiments. By leveraging hypergraph representation learning, HyPER builds more powerful and efficient representations of collider events, enabling accurate reconstruction of parent particles from final-state objects. In simulations, HyPER outperforms existing state‑of‑the‑art techniques while using fewer parameters, and its flexible hypergraph approach can be applied to a wide range of physics processes.
arXiv:2512. 07420v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Jet identification plays a central role in analyzing data from high-energy collider experiments.
arXiv:2606. 19781v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural scaling laws describe how model performance improves as a power law in compute, model size, and dataset size.