July 30, 2026 to August 5, 2026
Natal Convention Center
America/Sao_Paulo timezone

PanopTag: Simultaneously Tagging All Jets in a Particle Collision Event

Jul 30, 2026, 3:30 PM
15m
Room #1 (Praiamar Natal Hotel & Convention)

Room #1

Praiamar Natal Hotel & Convention

R. Francisco Gurgel, 33 - Ponta Negra, Natal - RN, 59090-050
Talk Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Quantum Computing in HEP Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Quantum Computing in HEP

Speaker

Brendon Bullard (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Description

Jet tagging, identifying the origin of jets produced in particle collisions, is a critical classification task in high-energy physics. Despite the revolutionary impact of deep learning on jet tagging over the past decade, the paradigm has remained unchanged. In particular, jets are classified independently, one at a time. This single-jet approach ignores correlations, overlaps, and wider event context between jets. We introduce \textsc{PanopTag}, a new paradigm for jet tagging that departs from traditional single-jet tagging approaches. Rather than classifying jets independently, \textsc{PanopTag} simultaneously tags all jets by employing an encoder-decoder architecture that uses jet kinematics as queries to cross-attend to particle flow object embeddings. We evaluate \textsc{PanopTag} on heavy-flavor $(b/c)$-tagging and demonstrate remarkable performance improvements over state-of-the-art single-jet baselines that are only accessible by exploiting event-level features and correlations between jets.

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Author

Brendon Bullard (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Co-authors

Umar Sohail Qureshi (Stanford University) Ariel Gustavo Schwartzman (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

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