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hep-ph2026

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…

hep-ph2026

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…

hep-ph2026

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…

hep-ph2026

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…

hep-ph2026

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…

hep-ph2025★ 5 cited

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…

hep-ph2024

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…

hep-ph2024

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 "…