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

123 citations · 125 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.AR2026

Alkaid: A Compiler Framework for Ultra-Low-Latency Kernels on Hardware

Chang Sun, Zhiqiang Que, Dimitrios Danopoulos +3

Ultra-low-latency machine learning and data processing pipelines operating on the sub-microsecond level often contain static dataflow kernels that require fine-grained bitwidth con…

hep-ex2026

Knowledge Distillation of a Normalising Flow for Real-Time Anomaly Detection at LHC Level-1 Trigger

Jaiman Abson, Florencia Canelli, Valentina Guglielmi +4

We present a new strategy for unsupervised anomaly detection at the hardware-based first stage of event processing (Level-1 trigger) of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). A normalisi…

hep-ex2026

Scouting Super Resolution: from HLT-Level Reconstruction to Offline-like Quality

Maurizio Pierini

Data scouting, introduced by the CMS collaboration in 2011, is a technique to extend the reach of the experiment beyond what full-event storage bandwidth allows: rather than the co…

cs.CL2026

SigmaScale: LLM Compression with SVD-based Low-Rank Decomposition and Learned Scaling Matrices

Ernests Lavrinovics, Marco Letizia, Roy Janco +3

We present SigmaScale, a method for learning auxiliary scaling matrices to aid truncated Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) based Large Language Model (LLM) compression. Instea…

cs.LG2026

Taming the Exponential: A Fast Softmax Surrogate for Integer-Native Edge Inference

Dimitrios Danopoulos, Enrico Lupi, Michael Kagan +1

Softmax can become a computational bottleneck in the Transformer model's Multi-Head Attention (MHA) block, particularly in small models under low-precision inference, where exponen…

cs.LG2026

PQuantML: A Tool for End-to-End Hardware-aware Model Compression

Roope Niemi, Anastasiia Petrovych, Arghya Ranjan Das +9

PQuantML is a new open-source, hardware-aware neural network model compression library tailored to end-to-end workflows. Motivated by the need to deploy performant models to enviro…

cs.LG2026

CHLU: The Causal Hamiltonian Learning Unit as a Symplectic Primitive for Deep Learning

Pratik Jawahar, Maurizio Pierini

Current deep learning primitives dealing with temporal dynamics suffer from a fundamental dichotomy: they are either discrete and unstable (LSTMs) \citep{pascanu_difficulty_2013},…

cs.LG2026

Towards Tensor Network Models for Low-Latency Jet Tagging on FPGAs

Alberto Coppi, Ema Puljak, Lorenzo Borella +6

We present a systematic study of Tensor Network (TN) models $\unicode{x2013}$ Matrix Product States (MPS) and Tree Tensor Networks (TTN) $\unicode{x2013}$ for real-time jet tagging…

cs.LG2026

AIE4ML: An End-to-End Framework for Compiling Neural Networks for the Next Generation of AMD AI Engines

Dimitrios Danopoulos, Enrico Lupi, Chang Sun +4

Efficient AI inference on AMD's Versal AI Engine (AIE) is challenging due to tightly coupled VLIW execution, explicit datapaths, and local memory management. Prior work focused on…

hep-ex2025

Knowledge is Overrated: A zero-knowledge machine learning and cryptographic hashing-based framework for verifiable, low latency inference at the LHC

Pratik Jawahar, Caterina Doglioni, Maurizio Pierini

Low latency event-selection (trigger) algorithms are essential components of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) operation. Modern machine learning (ML) models have shown great offline per…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Tensor Network for Anomaly Detection in the Latent Space of Proton Collision Events at the LHC

Ema Puljak, Maurizio Pierini, Artur Garcia-Saez

The pursuit of discovering new phenomena at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) demands constant innovation in algorithms and technologies. Tensor networks are mathematical models on t…

cs.LG2025

tn4ml: Tensor Network Training and Customization for Machine Learning

Ema Puljak, Sergio Sanchez-Ramirez, Sergi Masot-Llima +3

Tensor Networks have emerged as a prominent alternative to neural networks for addressing Machine Learning challenges in foundational sciences, paving the way for their application…

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…