arXiv Machine Learning

Learning the Geometry of Collider Events with Metric-Aware Deep Sets

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.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 19

HEPTv2: End-to-End Efficient Point Transformer for Charged Particle Reconstruction

arXiv:2606. 20437v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Charged-particle tracking -- reconstructing trajectories from sparse detector measurements -- is a fundamental high-energy-physics inference problem and a canonical example of learning under extreme combinatorial ambiguity.

By Siqi Miao, Shitij Govil, Jack P. Rodgers, Mia Liu, Javier Duarte, Shih-Chieh Hsu, Yuan-Tang Chou, Pan Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 8

ScatterPrism: convergence for generative simulation and inverse problems in particle and nuclear physics

arXiv:2604. 01313v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-fidelity simulations and complex inverse problems, such as detector modeling and unfolding, are computationally intensive bottlenecks across subatomic physics, yet essential for accurate physical interpretation.

By Zeyu Xia, Tyler Kim, Trevor Reed, Judy Fox, Geoffrey Fox, Adam Szczepaniak
arXiv AI
Jun 16

JetParticle-JEPA: An Efficient Self-Supervised Representation Learning method for Jet Tagging in High-Energy Physics

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.

By Guillaume Letellier (LPCC), Antonin Vacheret (LPCC), Fr\'ed\'eric Jurie
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

Mind the Gap: Navigating Inference with Optimal Transport Maps

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
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

A Lightweight Foundation Model for Collider Physics with Multi-Domain Adaptation

arXiv:2607. 27501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a lightweight approach to foundation modeling (\textbf{NEXUS}) that leverages pre-trained learning from collider physics data towards out-of-domain tasks in other scientific datasets, using a fully connected autoencoder model with approximately 3 million parameters.

By Liangyu Wu, Qibin Liu, Alexander Yue, Julia Gonski
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21

Routing by Reaching: Composition of Pre-trained GFlowNets for Multi-Objective Generation

arXiv:2602. 21565v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) learn to sample diverse candidates in proportion to a reward function, making them well-suited for scientific discovery, where exploring multiple promising solutions is crucial.

By Seokwon Yoon, Youngbin Choi, Seunghyuk Cho, Seungbeom Lee, MoonJeong Park, Dongwoo Kim