8–13 Jun 2025
OAC conference center, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece.
Europe/Athens timezone

Differentiable Programming in the Scikit-HEP Ecosystem

9 Jun 2025, 16:00
25m
OAC conference center, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece.

OAC conference center, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece.

Talk Methods and tools Methods and tools

Speaker

Mohamed Aly (Princeton University (US))

Description

Using tooling from the Scikit-HEP ecosystem we implement differentiable analysis pipelines for representative HEP analysis use cases and provide complimentary examples to the IRIS-HEP Analysis Grand Challenge. This presentation details the process and related development work and covers the example workflows that benefit from gradient-based optimization, compared to bespoke hand optimization, the challenges that were faced during the process, and the approaches used to address these challenges. We also provide context on future work in this area as well as provide recommendations for broader engagement of the field.

Authors

Alexander Held (University of Wisconsin Madison (US)) Jay Ajitbhai Sandesara (University of Wisconsin Madison (US)) Lino Oscar Gerlach (Princeton University (US)) Manfred Peter Fackeldey (Princeton University (US)) Matthew Feickert (University of Wisconsin Madison (US)) Mohamed Aly (Princeton University (US))

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