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20202026
most citedAutomatic heterogeneous quantization of deep neural networks for low-latency inference on the edge for particle detectors

196 citations · 763 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

hep-ex2026

Building an AI-native Research Ecosystem for Experimental Particle Physics: A Community Vision

Thea Klaeboe Aarrestad, Alaa Abdelhamid, Haider Abidi +457

Experimental particle physics seeks to understand the universe by probing its fundamental particles and forces and exploring how they govern the large-scale processes that shape co…

cs.AR2025

hls4ml: A Flexible, Open-Source Platform for Deep Learning Acceleration on Reconfigurable Hardware

Jan-Frederik Schulte, Benjamin Ramhorst, Chang Sun +50

We present hls4ml, a free and open-source platform that translates machine learning (ML) models from modern deep learning frameworks into high-level synthesis (HLS) code that can b…

hep-ex2025★ 8 cited

Physics Briefing Book: Input for the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics

Jorge de Blas, Monica Dunford, Emanuele Bagnaschi +127

The European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP) reflects the vision and presents concrete plans of the European particle physics community for advancing human knowledge in fundam…

hep-ex2025

It's not a FAD: first results in using Flows for unsupervised Anomaly Detection at 40 MHz at the Large Hadron Collider

Francesco Vaselli, Chang Sun, Thea Aarrestad +7

We present the first implementation of a Continuous Normalizing Flow (CNF) model for unsupervised anomaly detection within the realistic, high-rate environment of the Large Hadron…

cs.LG2024★ 6 cited

HGQ: High Granularity Quantization for Real-time Neural Networks on FPGAs

Chang Sun, Zhiqiang Que, Thea K. Årrestad +4

Neural networks with sub-microsecond inference latency are required by many critical applications. Targeting such applications deployed on FPGAs, we present High Granularity Quanti…

cs.CV2022

Real-time semantic segmentation on FPGAs for autonomous vehicles with hls4ml

Nicolò Ghielmetti, Vladimir Loncar, Maurizio Pierini +8

In this paper, we investigate how field programmable gate arrays can serve as hardware accelerators for real-time semantic segmentation tasks relevant for autonomous driving. Consi…

hep-ex2022

Lightweight Jet Reconstruction and Identification as an Object Detection Task

Adrian Alan Pol, Thea Aarrestad, Ekaterina Govorkova +8

We apply object detection techniques based on deep convolutional blocks to end-to-end jet identification and reconstruction tasks encountered at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC…

cs.LG2021★ 77 cited

Applications and Techniques for Fast Machine Learning in Science

Allison McCarn Deiana, Nhan Tran, Joshua Agar +84

In this community review report, we discuss applications and techniques for fast machine learning (ML) in science -- the concept of integrating power ML methods into the real-time…

hep-ph2021

Detecting long-lived particles trapped in detector material at the LHC

Jan Kieseler, Juliette Alimena, Jasmine Simms +3

We propose to implement a two-stage detection strategy for exotic long-lived particles that could be produced at the CERN LHC, become trapped in detector material, and decay later.…

hep-ph2021★ 43 cited

Improving Variational Autoencoders for New Physics Detection at the LHC with Normalizing Flows

Pratik Jawahar, Thea Aarrestad, Nadezda Chernyavskaya +5

We investigate how to improve new physics detection strategies exploiting variational autoencoders and normalizing flows for anomaly detection at the Large Hadron Collider. As a wo…

physics.ins-det2021★ 77 cited

Autoencoders on FPGAs for real-time, unsupervised new physics detection at 40 MHz at the Large Hadron Collider

Ekaterina Govorkova, Ema Puljak, Thea Aarrestad +11

In this paper, we show how to adapt and deploy anomaly detection algorithms based on deep autoencoders, for the unsupervised detection of new physics signatures in the extremely ch…

physics.data-an2021

LHC physics dataset for unsupervised New Physics detection at 40 MHz

Ekaterina Govorkova, Ema Puljak, Thea Aarrestad +3

In particle detectors at the Large Hadron Collider, tens of terabytes of data are produced every second from proton-proton collisions occurring at a rate of 40 megahertz. This data…

cs.LG2021★ 24 cited

Accelerating Recurrent Neural Networks for Gravitational Wave Experiments

Zhiqiang Que, Erwei Wang, Umar Marikar +10

This paper presents novel reconfigurable architectures for reducing the latency of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) that are used for detecting gravitational waves. Gravitational i…

hep-ph2021★ 34 cited

Vector Boson Scattering Processes: Status and Prospects

Diogo Buarque Franzosi, Michele Gallinaro, Richard Ruiz +26

Insight into the electroweak (EW) and Higgs sectors can be achieved through measurements of vector boson scattering (VBS) processes. The scattering of EW bosons are rare processes…

hep-ph2021★ 123 cited

The Dark Machines Anomaly Score Challenge: Benchmark Data and Model Independent Event Classification for the Large Hadron Collider

T. Aarrestad, M. van Beekveld, M. Bona +36

We describe the outcome of a data challenge conducted as part of the Dark Machines Initiative and the Les Houches 2019 workshop on Physics at TeV colliders. The challenged aims at…

hep-ex2021★ 4 cited

Jet Single Shot Detection

Adrian Alan Pol, Thea Aarrestad, Katya Govorkova +8

We apply object detection techniques based on Convolutional Neural Networks to jet reconstruction and identification at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. In particular, we focus on C…

cs.LG2021★ 8 cited

hls4ml: An Open-Source Codesign Workflow to Empower Scientific Low-Power Machine Learning Devices

Farah Fahim, Benjamin Hawks, Christian Herwig +27

Accessible machine learning algorithms, software, and diagnostic tools for energy-efficient devices and systems are extremely valuable across a broad range of application domains.…

cs.LG2021★ 131 cited

Fast convolutional neural networks on FPGAs with hls4ml

Thea Aarrestad, Vladimir Loncar, Nicolò Ghielmetti +17

We introduce an automated tool for deploying ultra low-latency, low-power deep neural networks with convolutional layers on FPGAs. By extending the hls4ml library, we demonstrate a…

physics.ins-det2020★ 32 cited

Accelerated Charged Particle Tracking with Graph Neural Networks on FPGAs

Aneesh Heintz, Vesal Razavimaleki, Javier Duarte +18

We develop and study FPGA implementations of algorithms for charged particle tracking based on graph neural networks. The two complementary FPGA designs are based on OpenCL, a fram…

hep-ex2020

Searching for diboson resonances in the boosted all-hadronic final state at TeV with CMS

Thea Aarrestad

This article summarises three searches for diboson resonances in the all-hadronic final state using data collected at a center-of-mass energy of TeV with the CMS…

physics.ins-det2020★ 196 cited

Automatic heterogeneous quantization of deep neural networks for low-latency inference on the edge for particle detectors

Claudionor N. Coelho, Aki Kuusela, Shan Li +7

Although the quest for more accurate solutions is pushing deep learning research towards larger and more complex algorithms, edge devices demand efficient inference and therefore r…