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most citedUltrafast jet classification on FPGAs for the HL-LHC

10 citations · 19 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

hep-th2026

Flux Vacua, Asymptotic Periods, and Relatively Anosov Representations

Paul Balavoine, Severin Lüst

We develop a topological method to detect classical flux vacua of M-theory on Calabi-Yau fourfolds with a single complex structure modulus using only asymptotic period data and mon…

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…

cs.AR2026

FQTree: Fine-grained Quantization and Hardware Generation of Boosted Decision Trees

Zhiqiang Que, Chang Sun, Haiyang Wang +6

Boosted decision trees (BDTs) are widely used in latency-critical applications, but efficient hardware deployment remains challenging. Existing designs often rely on uniform or man…

cs.AR2026

HGQ-LUT: Fast LUT-Aware Training and Efficient Architectures for DNN Inference

Chang Sun, Zhiqiang Que, Bakhtiar Zadeh +4

Lookup-table (LUT) based neural networks can deliver ultra-low latency and excellent hardware efficiency on FPGAs by mapping arithmetic operations directly onto the logic primitive…

quant-ph2026

Low-Latency FPGA Control System for Real-Time Neural Network Processing in CCD-Based Trapped-Ion Qubit Measurement

Binglei Lou, Gautham Duddi Krishnaswaroop, Filip Wojcicki +5

Accurate and low-latency qubit state measurement is critical for trapped-ion quantum computing. While deep neural networks (DNNs) have been integrated to enhance detection fidelity…

cs.LG2026

JetFormer: A Scalable and Efficient Transformer for Jet Tagging from Offline Analysis to FPGA Triggers

Ruoqing Zheng, Chang Sun, Qibin Liu +7

We present JetFormer, a versatile and scalable encoder-only Transformer architecture for particle jet tagging at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Unlike prior approaches that are o…

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…

physics.ins-det2025

Sub-microsecond Transformers for Jet Tagging on FPGAs

Lauri Laatu, Chang Sun, Arianna Cox +7

We present the first sub-microsecond transformer implementation on an FPGA achieving competitive performance for state-of-the-art high-energy physics benchmarks. Transformers have…

cs.AR2025★ 3 cited

da4ml: Distributed Arithmetic for Real-time Neural Networks on FPGAs

Chang Sun, Zhiqiang Que, Vladimir Loncar +2

Neural networks with a latency requirement on the order of microseconds, like the ones used at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, are typically deployed on FPGAs fully unrolled and pi…

cs.AR2024

Enthuse: Efficient Adaptable High-throughput Streaming Aggregation Engines

Philippos Papaphilippou, Wayne Luk

Aggregation queries are a series of computationally-demanding analytics operations on counted, grouped or time series data. They include tasks such as summation or finding the medi…

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…

hep-ex2024★ 10 cited

Ultrafast jet classification on FPGAs for the HL-LHC

Patrick Odagiu, Zhiqiang Que, Javier Duarte +13

Three machine learning models are used to perform jet origin classification. These models are optimized for deployment on a field-programmable gate array device. In this context, w…