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

EveNet: A Foundation Model for Particle Collision Data Analysis

Jul 30, 2026, 3:00 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

Yulei Zhang (University of Washington (US))

Description

While deep learning is transforming data analysis in high-energy physics, computational challenges limit its potential. We address these challenges in the context of collider physics by introducing EveNet, an event-level foundation model pretrained on 500 million simulated collision events using a hybrid objective of self-supervised learning and physics-informed supervision. By leveraging a shared particle-cloud representation, EveNet outperforms state-of-the-art baselines across diverse tasks, including searches for heavy resonances and exotic Higgs decays, and demonstrates exceptional data efficiency in low-statistics regimes. Crucially, we validate the transferability of the model to experimental data by rediscovering the $\Upsilon$ meson in CMS Open Data and show its capacity for precision physics through the robust extraction of quantum correlation observables stable against systematic uncertainties. These results indicate that EveNet can successfully encode the fundamental physical structure of particle interactions, which offers a unified and resource-efficient framework to accelerate discovery at current and future colliders.

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Authors

Bai-Hong Zhou (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute (CN)) Ben Nachman (Stanford University (US)) George Wei-Shu Hou (National Taiwan University (TW)) Qibin Liu (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Shih-Chieh Hsu (University of Washington Seattle (US)) Shu Li (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. (CN)) Ting-Hsiang Hsu (National Taiwan University (TW)) Vinicius Massami Mikuni (Nagoya University (JP)) Yuan-Tang Chou (University of Washington (US)) Yue Xu (University of Washington (US)) Yulei Zhang (University of Washington (US))

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