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Publications (23)

cs.DC2020

Time-Based Roofline for Deep Learning Performance Analysis

Yunsong Wang, Charlene Yang, Steven Farrell +3

Deep learning applications are usually very compute-intensive and require a long run time for training and inference. This has been tackled by researchers from both hardware and so…

physics.ins-det2020

Track Seeding and Labelling with Embedded-space Graph Neural Networks

Nicholas Choma, Daniel Murnane, Xiangyang Ju +16

To address the unprecedented scale of HL-LHC data, the Exa.TrkX project is investigating a variety of machine learning approaches to particle track reconstruction. The most promisi…

hep-ex2023

Applications of Deep Learning to physics workflows

Manan Agarwal, Jay Alameda, Jeroen Audenaert +65

Modern large-scale physics experiments create datasets with sizes and streaming rates that can exceed those from industry leaders such as Google Cloud and Netflix. Fully processing…

q-bio.BM2026

Yeti: A compact protein structure tokenizer for reconstruction and multi-modal generation

Nabin Giri, Steven Farrell, Kristofer E. Bouchard

Multimodal models that jointly reason over protein sequences, structures, and function annotations within a unified representation hold immense potential for integrating multimodal…

physics.ins-det2022

Reconstruction of Large Radius Tracks with the Exa.TrkX pipeline

Chun-Yi Wang, Xiangyang Ju, Shih-Chieh Hsu +22

Particle tracking is a challenging pattern recognition task at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the High Luminosity-LHC. Conventional algorithms, such as those based on the Kalm…

cs.LG2026

Zatom-1: Towards a Multimodal Foundation Model for 3D Molecules and Materials

Alex Morehead, Miruna Cretu, Antonia Panescu +14

General-purpose 3D modeling in chemistry encompasses molecules and materials, requiring both generative and predictive capabilities. However, most existing AI approaches are optimi…

astro-ph.CO2026

FAIR Universe Weak Lensing ML Uncertainty Challenge: Handling Uncertainties and Distribution Shifts for Precision Cosmology

Biwei Dai, Po-Wen Chang, Wahid Bhimji +15

Weak gravitational lensing, the correlated distortion of background galaxy shapes by foreground structures, is a powerful probe of the matter distribution in our universe and allow…

physics.ins-det2020

Graph Neural Networks for Particle Reconstruction in High Energy Physics detectors

Xiangyang Ju, Steven Farrell, Paolo Calafiura +20

Pattern recognition problems in high energy physics are notably different from traditional machine learning applications in computer vision. Reconstruction algorithms identify and…

cs.LG2021

MLPerf HPC: A Holistic Benchmark Suite for Scientific Machine Learning on HPC Systems

Steven Farrell, Murali Emani, Jacob Balma +40

Scientific communities are increasingly adopting machine learning and deep learning models in their applications to accelerate scientific insights. High performance computing syste…

hep-ex2018

Novel deep learning methods for track reconstruction

Steven Farrell, Paolo Calafiura, Mayur Mudigonda +11

For the past year, the HEP.TrkX project has been investigating machine learning solutions to LHC particle track reconstruction problems. A variety of models were studied that drew…

cs.DC2025

Understanding the Landscape of Ampere GPU Memory Errors

Zhu Zhu, Yu Sun, Dhatri Parakal +9

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have become a de facto solution for accelerating high-performance computing (HPC) applications. Understanding their memory error behavior is an ess…

physics.ins-det2022

Accelerating the Inference of the Exa.TrkX Pipeline

Alina Lazar, Xiangyang Ju, Daniel Murnane +21

Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been successfully used for a variety of particle reconstruction problems in high energy physics, including particle tracking. The Exa.Tr…

cs.LG2022

Benchmarking GPU and TPU Performance with Graph Neural Networks

xiangyang Ju, Yunsong Wang, Daniel Murnane +3

Many artificial intelligence (AI) devices have been developed to accelerate the training and inference of neural networks models. The most common ones are the Graphics Processing U…

hep-ph2025

FAIR Universe HiggsML Uncertainty Dataset and Competition

Lisa Benato, Wahid Bhimji, Paolo Calafiura +26

The FAIR Universe HiggsML Uncertainty Challenge focused on measuring the physical properties of elementary particles with imperfect simulators. Participants were required to comput…

physics.comp-ph2016

Multi-threaded Geant4 on the Xeon-Phi with Complex High-Energy Physics Geometry

Steven Farrell, Andrea Dotti, Makoto Asai +2

To study the performance of multi-threaded Geant4 for high-energy physics experiments, an application has been developed which generalizes and extends previous work. A highly-compl…

cs.DC2020

Hierarchical Roofline Performance Analysis for Deep Learning Applications

Charlene Yang, Yunsong Wang, Steven Farrell +2

This paper presents a practical methodology for collecting performance data necessary to conduct hierarchical Roofline analysis on NVIDIA GPUs. It discusses the extension of the Em…

physics.comp-ph2024

Graph Neural Network-based Tracking as a Service

Haoran Zhao, Andrew Naylor, Shih-Chieh Hsu +8

Recent studies have shown promising results for track finding in dense environments using Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based algorithms. However, GNN-based track finding is computati…

hep-ph2026

Fair Universe Higgs Uncertainty Challenge

Ragansu Chakkappai, Wahid Bhimji, Paolo Calafiura +16

This competition in high-energy physics (HEP) and machine learning was the first to strongly emphasise uncertainties in cross-section measurement. Parti…

cs.LG2021

The Tracking Machine Learning challenge : Throughput phase

Sabrina Amrouche, Laurent Basara, Paolo Calafiura +18

This paper reports on the second "Throughput" phase of the Tracking Machine Learning (TrackML) challenge on the Codalab platform. As in the first "Accuracy" phase, the participants…

cs.LG2024

Comprehensive Performance Modeling and System Design Insights for Foundation Models

Shashank Subramanian, Ermal Rrapaj, Peter Harrington +6

Generative AI, in particular large transformer models, are increasingly driving HPC system design in science and industry. We analyze performance characteristics of such transforme…

hep-ex2021

The Tracking Machine Learning challenge : Accuracy phase

Sabrina Amrouche, Laurent Basara, Paolo Calafiura +24

This paper reports the results of an experiment in high energy physics: using the power of the "crowd" to solve difficult experimental problems linked to tracking accurately the tr…

physics.comp-ph2018

A Roadmap for HEP Software and Computing R&D for the 2020s

Johannes Albrecht, Antonio Augusto Alves, Guilherme Amadio +307

Particle physics has an ambitious and broad experimental programme for the coming decades. This programme requires large investments in detector hardware, either to build new facil…

hep-ex2023

Hierarchical Graph Neural Networks for Particle Track Reconstruction

Ryan Liu, Paolo Calafiura, Steven Farrell +3

We introduce a novel variant of GNN for particle tracking called Hierarchical Graph Neural Network (HGNN). The architecture creates a set of higher-level representations which corr…