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Machine learning for the LHC physics program: a 2025-2026 stocktake
Jesse Thaler
The first sentence of this abstract--and the introduction to these proceedings--was authored by a human, but the bulk of this document was generated by an agentic AI system. In thi…
Simplex Demixing: Disentangling Multiple Light-Flavor Jets at Colliders
Gregorio de la Fuente, Jesse Thaler
Providing a practical and hadron-level definition of multiple jet flavors has been a long-standing challenge in collider physics. Previous work has introduced a data-driven, operat…
Reweighting Adversarial Networks for Unbinned Unfolding
Umar Sohail Qureshi, Krish Desai, Jesse Thaler +1
Differential cross sections are the currency of scientific exchange in particle and nuclear physics. Recently, machine learning methods have enabled unbinned and high-dimensional c…
Interpreting "Interpretability" and Explaining "Explainability" in Machine Learning in Physics
Rikab Gambhir, Luisa Lucie-Smith, Jesse Thaler
We review the concepts of interpretability and explainability as they apply to machine learning in physics. We define interpretability as concerning the structural transparency of…
Many Wrongs Make a Right: Leveraging Biased Simulations Towards Unbiased Parameter Inference
Ezequiel Alvarez, Sean Benevedes, Manuel Szewc +1
In particle physics, as in many areas of science, parameter inference relies on simulations to bridge the gap between theory and experiment. Recent developments in simulation-based…
Improving parton shower predictions via precision moments of energy flow polynomials
Benoît Assi, Kyle Lee, Jesse Thaler
We study conceptual and practical aspects of using maximum-entropy reweighting to upgrade parton-shower event samples with higher-accuracy theoretical constraints. Our approach pro…
Isolating Unisolated Upsilons with Anomaly Detection in CMS Open Data
Rikab Gambhir, Radha Mastandrea, Benjamin Nachman +1
We present the first study of anti-isolated Upsilon decays to two muons () in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. Using a machine learning (ML)-bas…
SPECTER: Efficient Evaluation of the Spectral EMD
Rikab Gambhir, Andrew J. Larkoski, Jesse Thaler
The Energy Mover's Distance (EMD) has seen use in collider physics as a metric between events and as a geometric method of defining infrared and collinear safe observables. Recentl…
Moments of Clarity: Streamlining Latent Spaces in Machine Learning using Moment Pooling
Rikab Gambhir, Athis Osathapan, Jesse Thaler
Many machine learning applications involve learning a latent representation of data, which is often high-dimensional and difficult to directly interpret. In this work, we propose "…