activity
20242026
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7 papers

hep-ex2026

RINO: Renormalization Group Distillation with No Labels

Zichun Hao, Raghav Kansal, Abhijith Gandrakota +6

Supervised machine learning in high-energy physics (HEP) requires training on labeled simulations of particle collisions, which are known to be unfaithful to the underlying physics…

cs.LG2026

Conditional Capacity and Routing in Mixture-of-Experts Particle Transformers

Kaushik Pendiyala, Haris Zia, Trevin Lee +8

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models can increase parameter capacity without proportionally increasing active computation, but it is unclear how this trade-off behaves in particle-physi…

hep-ex2026

Patch Hierarchical Attention Transformer for Efficient Particle Jet Tagging

Aaron Wang, Zihan Zhao, Alan Xia +5

Real-time jet tagging is critical for identifying short-lived particle decays in the high-throughput detectors of the Large Hadron Collider, where real-time trigger systems respons…

hep-ph2025

Why Is Attention Sparse In Particle Transformer?

Timothy Legge, Aaron Wang, Jacob Ortiz +7

Transformer-based models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in jet tagging at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), with the Particle Transformer (ParT) representing a lead…

cs.LG2025

Spatially Aware Linear Transformer (SAL-T) for Particle Jet Tagging

Aaron Wang, Zihan Zhao, Subash Katel +6

Transformers are very effective in capturing both global and local correlations within high-energy particle collisions, but they present deployment challenges in high-data-throughp…

hep-ph2024

Learning Symmetry-Independent Jet Representations via Jet-Based Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture

Subash Katel, Haoyang Li, Zihan Zhao +3

In high energy physics, self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have the potential to aid in the creation of machine learning models without the need for labeled datasets for a vari…

hep-ex2024

Large-Scale Pretraining and Finetuning for Efficient Jet Classification in Particle Physics

Zihan Zhao, Farouk Mokhtar, Raghav Kansal +2

This study introduces an innovative approach to analyzing unlabeled data in high-energy physics (HEP) through the application of self-supervised learning (SSL). Faced with the incr…