ML4Jets2025

from Sunday, 17 August 2025 (03:00) to Saturday, 23 August 2025 (05:00)
California Institute of Technology (CHEN100)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
17 Aug 2025
18 Aug 2025
19 Aug 2025
20 Aug 2025
21 Aug 2025
22 Aug 2025
AM
08:45 --- Registration ---
09:30 Welcome - Prof. Maria Spiropulu (California Institute of Technology)  
09:40
Invited Plenaries - Jennifer Ngadiuba (FNAL) (until 11:00)
09:40 AI for gravitational waves - Philip Coleman Harris (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
10:20 End-to-end particle reconstruction for current and future colliders - Eilam Gross (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Invited Plenaries - Maurizio Pierini (CERN) (until 12:50)
11:30 Progress on AI-based jet tagging - Javier Mauricio Duarte (Univ. of California San Diego (US))  
12:10 Uncertainty quantification in machine learning: A selective overview - Prasanth Shyamsundar (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)  
09:00
Invited Plenaries -Dr Jean-Roch Vlimant (California Institute of Technology (US)) (until 10:20)
09:00 AI for particle accelerators [Remote] - Auralee Edelen  
09:40 Foundation models for astrophysics & cosmology [Remote] - Gautham Narayan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / SkAI Institute)  
10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:50
Anomaly Detection - Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB)) (until 12:50)
10:50 Anomaly detections in 3 lepton channel using AutoEncoders - Alfredo Castaneda (Universidad de Sonora (MX))  
11:10 Event-level Observables based on Optimal Transport for Resonant Anomaly Detection - Aditya Bhargava  
11:30 Anomaly Detection Results from CMS - Oz Amram (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
11:50 Weakly supervised anomaly detection with event-level variables - Liam Brennan (Univ. of California Santa Barbara (US))  
12:10 Improving the model agnostic sensitivity of weakly supervised anomaly detection - Marie Hein (RWTH Aachen University)  
12:30 Testing the Robustness of Via Machinae Stellar Stream Detections Using Resonant Anomaly Detection - Rafael Porto  
10:50
Fast ML - Melissa Quinnan (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) (until 12:50)
10:50 Convolutional Neural Networks for pile-up suppression in the ATLAS Global Trigger - Noah Clarke Hall (University College London)  
11:10 Towards a Self-Driving Trigger: Adaptive Response to Anomalies in Real Time - Abhijith Gandrakota (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
11:30 DECADE: Selecting the unexpected with decorrelated anomaly triggers - Noah Clarke Hall (University College London)  
11:50 It's not a FAD: how to use Flows for Anomaly Detection on FPGAs - Francesco Vaselli (Scuola Normale Superiore & INFN Pisa (IT))  
12:10 Comparative Analysis of FPGA and GPU Performance for Machine Learning-Based Track Reconstruction at LHCb - Fotis Giasemis (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
12:30 Jet calibration with in-situ pileup suppression for the L1 trigger - Ben Carlson (Westmont College)  
09:00
Invited Plenaries - Abhijith Gandrakota (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) (until 10:20)
09:00 Likelihood free inference - Aishik Ghosh (University of California Irvine (US))  
09:40 AI-driven detector design - Shah Rukh Qasim (University of Zurich (CH))  
10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:50
Anomaly Detection - Oz Amram (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) (until 12:50)
10:50 Isolating Unisolated Upsilons with Anomaly Detection in CMS Open Data - Radha Mastandrea (LBNL)  
11:30 Incorporating Physical Priors into Weakly-Supervised Anomaly Detection - Gurpreet Singh (University of California, Berkeley)  
11:50 Anomaly Detection applied to the Quality Control of new detector components - Louis Vaslin (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))  
12:10 Debiasing Ultrafast Anomaly Detection with Posterior Agreement - Denis-Patrick Odagiu Denis-Patrick Odagiu (ETH Zurich (CH))  
12:30 Anomaly Detection in High-Energy Particle Collisions at the LHC - Runze Li (Yale University (US))  
10:50
Reconstruction and Analysis - Vinicius Massami Mikuni (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) (until 12:50)
10:50 Neural autoregressive flows for data-driven background estimation in a search for four-top quark production in the all-hadronic final state with CMS at 13 TeV - Melissa Quinnan (Univ. of California San Diego (US))  
11:10 Fast and Precise Track Fitting with Machine Learning - Daniel Whiteson (University of California Irvine (US))  
11:30 MaskFormers for Reconstruction Tasks in High Energy Physics - Max Hart (University College London (GB))  
11:50 A Graph Neural Network Approach for General Reconstruction of Non-Helical Tracks [remote] - Levi Condren (University of California Irvine (US))  
12:10 Machine Learning for Dark Matter searches at the LHC - Rafal Maselek  
12:30 $\texttt{DeepSub}$: Deep Learning for Thermal Background Subtraction in Heavy-Ion Collisions [remote] - Umar Sohail Qureshi (Vanderbilt University)  
09:30
Invited Plenaries - David Shih (until 10:50)
09:30 AI-based end-to-end simulation - Andrea Rizzi (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))  
10:10 AI at the extreme edge - Jannicke Pearkes (University of Colorado Boulder (US))  
10:50 --- Coffee break ---
11:20
Jet Physics - Raghav Kansal (Caltech / Fermilab) (until 13:00)
11:20 Deep Learning Methods for Jet Tagging and Process Classification Using Image Processing - Mr Jhoao Gabriel Martins Campos Almeida Arneiro (Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP) (BR))  
11:40 HEP-JEPA: Towards a found model for high energy physics using joint embedding predictive architecture [Remote] - Jai Bardhan  
12:00 Jet tagging with the Lund Jet Plane - Ethan Lewis Simpson (The University of Manchester (GB))  
12:20 [Remote] Integrating Energy Flow Networks with Jet Substructure Observables for Enhanced Jet Quenching Studies - João A. Gonçalves (LIP - IST)  
12:40 Comparing Continuous and Tokenized Jet Generation Approaches for Precision Modeling - Ian Pang  
11:20
Theory - Rikab Gambhir (MIT) (until 12:40)
11:20 Autonomous Model Building with Reinforcement Learning: An Application with Lepton Flavor Symmetries - Jake Rudolph (UC Irvine)  
11:40 Observable Optimization for Precision Theory: Machine Learning Energy Correlators - Katherine Fraser (Harvard University)  
12:00 Giving machine learning a boost towards respecting (approximate) symmetries - Inbar Savoray (UC Berkeley)  
12:20 An Energy Correlation Function tagger for gluon-gluon resonances - Connor Moore (University of Notre Dame (US))  
09:00
Reconstruction and Analysis -Dr Claudius Krause (HEPHY Vienna (ÖAW)) (until 10:40)
09:20 Boosting HH(4b) beyond boosted HH(4b): a calibratable full-particle search framework - Tianyi Yang (Peking University (CN))  
09:40 Going HyPER: Enhancing collider measurements with hypergraph learning - Ethan Lewis Simpson (The University of Manchester (GB))  
10:00 Machine Learning-Assisted Measurement of Lepton-Jet Azimuthal Angular Asymmetries and of the complete final state in Deep-Inelastic Scattering at HERA - Vinicius Massami Mikuni (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
10:20 Optimal Transport for $e/\pi^0$ Particle Classification in LArTPC Neutrino Experiments - Jessica N. Howard (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics)  
09:00
Theory - Prasanth Shyamsundar (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) (until 10:20)
09:00 Explicit versus implicit physics priors for separating nearly identical classes - Tanvi Wamorkar (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
09:20 Machine Learning Neutrino-Nucleus Cross Sections [remote] - Dr Karla Tame-Narvaez (Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory)  
09:40 A novel loss function to optimise signal significance in particle physics [remote] - Jai Bardhan  
10:00 Machine Learning Symmetries in Physics from First Principles - Konstantin Matchev (University of Alabama (US))  
10:20
Quantum - Prasanth Shyamsundar (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) (until 11:00)
10:20 1 Particle - 1 Qubit: Particle Physics Data Encoding for Quantum Machine Learning - Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB))  
10:40 Quantum-Enhanced Inference for Four-Top-Quark Signal Classification at the LHC Using Graph Neural Networks [remote] - Mr Syed Haider Ali (Department of Physics & Applied Mathematics, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), P. O. Nilore 45650, Islamabad)  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Invited Plenaries - Jennifer Ngadiuba (FNAL) (until 12:10)
11:30 AI for Mathematics - Ali Shehper  
PM
16:30 --- Welcome reception ---
12:50 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Event Generation and Detector Simulation - Andrea Rizzi (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT)) (until 15:20)
14:00 DLScanner and LeStrat-Net: Machine learning for improved Monte Carlo exploration - Raymundo Ramos (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)  
14:20 Stay Positive: Neural Refinement of Simulated Event Weights - Dennis Daniel Nick Noll (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (US))  
14:40 EveNet: Towards a Generalist Event Transformer for Unified Understanding and Generation of Collider Data - Yulei Zhang (University of Washington (US))  
15:00 CMS FlashSim: an end-to-end ML approach speeds up simulation in CMS - Francesco Vaselli (Scuola Normale Superiore & INFN Pisa (IT))  
14:00
Jet Physics - Philip Coleman Harris (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)) (until 15:20)
14:00 Machine Learning Approaches for Investigating Jet Quenching in Quark-Gluon Plasma via Jet Substructures Analysis - Leonardo Lima Da Silva (Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP) (BR)) Marcelo Gameiro Munhoz (Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP) (BR))  
14:20 IAFormer: Interaction-Aware Transformer network for collider data analysis - Dr Ahmed Hammad (KEK, Japan)  
14:40 Representation Learning of Jets with Physics-Informed Self-Distillations - Zichun Hao (California Institute of Technology)  
15:00 Particle transformers for boosted H→WW identification - Raghav Kansal (Caltech / Fermilab)  
15:20 --- Coffee break ---
15:50
Summary of Day; Q&A (until 16:30)
15:50 Monday Summary - Dr Jean-Roch Vlimant (California Institute of Technology (US))  
16:30
Keynote (until 17:30)
16:30 Anima Anandkumar (Caltech)  
12:50 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Jet Physics - Raghav Kansal (Caltech / Fermilab) (until 15:20)
14:00 Get Your Jets in Shape: Conditioning Heads and Backbones - Ian Pang  
14:20 A comparison of self-supervised pre-training methods for foundation models in jet physics - Joschka Birk (Hamburg University (DE))  
14:40 Heavy-Flavour Frontier: Tagging at ATLAS with GN3 - Diptaparna Biswas (Universitaet Siegen (DE))  
15:00 Blooming LHC analyses with all-inclusive pretrained boosted-jet models - Dawei Fu (Peking University (CN)) Congqiao Li (Peking University (CN))  
14:00
Uncertainties & Interpretability -Prof. Mariel Pettee (University of Wisconsin--Madison) (until 15:20)
14:00 Physics-guided Machine Learning in Cosmology [remote] - Leonora KARDUM  
14:20 Fair Universe HiggsML Uncertainty Challenge: Benchmark for Uncertainty-Aware Machine Learning in High Energy Physics - Po-Wen Chang  
14:40 Unbinned inclusive cross-section measurements with machine-learned systematic uncertainties - Dr Claudius Krause (HEPHY Vienna (ÖAW))  
15:00 Tackling interpretability with physical baselines for Integrated Gradients [remote] - Jai Bardhan  
15:20 --- Coffee break ---
15:50
Summary of Day; Q&A (until 16:30)
15:50 Tuesday Summary - Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB))  
16:30
Keynote (until 17:30)
16:30 Stefano Soatto (AWS AI)  
12:50 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Jet Physics - Daniel Whiteson (University of California Irvine (US)) (until 15:20)
14:00 Transformer-based tagger for boosted Higgs - Edoardo Critelli (UCL (GB))  
14:20 Fragmentation tagging - Yevgeny Kats (Ben-Gurion University)  
14:40 The Pareto Frontier of Resilient Jet Tagging - Rikab Gambhir (MIT)  
15:00 Fast Jet Tagging with MLP-Mixers on FPGAs - Chang Sun (California Institute of Technology (US))  
14:00
Unfolding & Inference - Eilam Gross (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)) (until 15:20)
14:00 Data-Driven High Dimensional Statistical Inference with Generative Models - Oz Amram (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
14:20 A High-Dimensional, Unbinned Standard Model Measurement with the ATLAS Experiment - Mariel Pettee (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
14:40 Higgs Signal Strength Estimation with a Dual-Branch GNN under Systematic Uncertainties [remote] - Daohan Wang (HEPHY ÖAW)  
15:00 wifi Ensembles for Simulation-Based Inference with Systematic Uncertainties - Sean Benevedes (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  
15:20 --- Coffee break ---
15:50
Keynote (until 16:50)
15:50 Katie Bouman (Caltech)  
16:50 --- Group photo ---
18:00 --- ML4JETS BANQUET ---
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:10
Fast ML - Jannicke Pearkes (University of Colorado Boulder (US)) (until 15:30)
14:10 Spatially Aware Linear Transformer (SAL-T) for Efficient Particle Jet Identification - Aaron Wang (University of Illinois Chicago (US))  
14:30 Real-Time event reconstruction for Nuclear Physics Experiments using Artificial Intelligence - Gagik Gavalian (Jefferson National Lab)  
14:50 GELATO: A Generic Event-Level Anomalous Trigger Option for ATLAS - Sagar Addepalli (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
15:10 Real-Time Compression of CMS Detector Data Using Conditional Autoencoders - Zachary Baldwin (Carnegie Mellon University)  
14:10
Unfolding & Inference - Aishik Ghosh (University of California Irvine (US)) (until 15:30)
14:10 Forward folding versus unfolding in the age of ML - Kevin Thomas Greif (University of California Irvine (US))  
14:30 Discriminative versus Generative Approaches to Simulation-based Inference - Sascha Diefenbacher (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
14:50 On focusing statistical power for searches and measurements in particle physics - James Carzon (Carnegie Mellon University)  
15:10 Generator Based Inference (GBI) - Alkaid Cheng (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Keynote (until 17:00)
16:00 Jeff Nessen (Google AI)  
17:00
Summary of Day; Q&A - David Shih (until 17:30)
17:00 Thursday Summary - David Shih  
12:10 Summary & Highlights - Andrea Rizzi (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))  
12:30 Closing remarks - Jennifer Ngadiuba (FNAL)