arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

Similarity Pairing with Energy Mover's Distance for Self-Supervised Pre-Training at the LHC

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.

By Ho Fung Tsoi, Dylan Rankin
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 18

Comparison of Image Processing Models in Quark Gluon Jet Classification

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.

By Daeun Kim, Jaeyoon Cho, Jiwon Lee, Wonjun Jeong, Hyeongwoo Noh, Giyeong Kim, Seunghwan Yang, MinJung Kweon