ML4Jets2025

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

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
17 Aug 2025
18 Aug 2025
19 Aug 2025
20 Aug 2025
21 Aug 2025
22 Aug 2025
AM
09:00 --- Registration ---
09:40
Invited Plenaries (until 11:00)
09:40 Progresses on AI-based jet tagging - Huilin Qu (CERN)  
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 (until 12:50)
11:30 AI for gravitational waves - Philip Coleman Harris (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
12:10 Uncertainty quantification in machine learning: A selective overview - Prasanth Shyamsundar (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)  
09:00
Invited Plenaries (until 10:20)
09:00 AI for particle accelerators - Auralee Edelen  
09:40 Foundation models for astrophysics & cosmology - Gautham Narayan (SkAI)  
10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:50
Anomaly Detection (until 12:50)
10:50 Anomaly detections in 3 lepton channel using AutoEncoders #35  
11:10 Event-level Observables based on Optimal Transport for Resonant Anomaly Detection - Aditya Bhargava  
11:30 Anomaly Detection Results from CMS - CMS Collaboration  
11:50 Weakly supervised anomaly detection with event-level variables  
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 (until 12:50)
10:50 Convolutional Neural Networks for pile-up suppression in the ATLAS Global Trigger  
11:10 Towards a Self-Driving Trigger: Adaptive Response to Anomalies in Real Time  
11:30 DECADE: Selecting the unexpected with decorrelated anomaly triggers  
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  
12:30 Real-Time event reconstruction for Nuclear Physics Experiments using Artificial Intelligence - Gagik Gavalian (Jefferson National Lab)  
09:00
Invited Plenaries (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 (until 12:50)
10:50 Isolating Unisolated Upsilons with Anomaly Detection in CMS Open Data  
11:10 A Novel Anomaly Detection Approach for Primary Vertex Selection at the HL-LHC - Wasikul Islam (University of Wisconsin-Madison (US))  
11:30 Incorporating Physical Priors into Weakly-Supervised Anomaly Detection  
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  
12:30 Anomaly Detection in High-Energy Particle Collisions at the LHC - Runze Li (Yale University (US))  
10:50
Reconstruction and Analysis (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  
11:10 A Graph Neural Network Approach for General Reconstruction of Non-Helical Tracks  
11:30 MaskFormers for Reconstruction Tasks in High Energy Physics  
11:50 Fast and Precise Track Fitting with Machine Learning  
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 - Umar Sohail Qureshi (Vanderbilt University)  
09:30
Invited Plenaries (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 (until 13:00)
11:20 Deep Learning Methods for Jet Tagging and Process Classification Using Image Processing  
11:40 HEP-JEPA: Towards a found model for high energy physics using joint embedding predictive architecture  
12:00 Jet tagging with the Lund Jet Plane  
12:20 Fast Jet Tagging with MLP-Mixers on FPGAs  
12:40 Comparing Continuous and Tokenized Jet Generation Approaches for Precision Modeling - Ian Pang  
11:20
Theory (until 13:00)
11:20 Multi-scale Optimal Transport for Complete Collider Events - Lynn Lin  
11:40 Autonomous Model Building with Reinforcement Learning: An Application with Lepton Flavor Symmetries  
12:00 Observable Optimization for Precision Theory: Machine Learning Energy Correlators - Katherine Fraser (Harvard University)  
12:20 Giving machine learning a boost towards respecting (approximate) symmetries  
12:40 An Energy Correlation Function tagger for gluon-gluon resonances  
09:00
Reconstruction and Analysis (until 11:00)
09:00 Search for keV-scale Sterile Neutrinos with TRISTAN at KATRIN Using a Neural Network-Based Approach  
09:20 Simultaneous reconstruction of boosted, resolved, and semi-boosted top-quark events with symmetry-preserving attention networks - Thomas Coulter Sievert (California Institute of Technology (US))  
09:40 Boosting HH(4b) beyond boosted HH(4b): a calibratable full-particle search framework  
10:00 Going HyPER: Enhancing collider measurements with hypergraph learning  
10:20 Machine Learning-Assisted Measurement of Lepton-Jet Azimuthal Angular Asymmetries and of the complete final state in Deep-Inelastic Scattering at HERA  
10:40 Optimal Transport for $e/\pi^0$ Particle Classification in LArTPC Neutrino Experiments - Jessica N. Howard (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics)  
09:00
Theory (until 10:20)
09:00 Explicit versus implicit physics priors for separating nearly identical classes  
09:20 Machine Learning Neutrino-Nucleus Cross Sections  
09:40 A novel loss function to optimise signal significance in particle physics  
10:00 Machine Learning Symmetries in Physics from First Principles  
10:20
Quantum (until 11:00)
10:20 1 Particle - 1 Qubit: Particle Physics Data Encoding for Quantum Machine Learning  
10:40 Quantum-Enhanced Inference for Four-Top-Quark Signal Classification at the LHC Using Graph Neural Networks - 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 (until 12:10)
11:30 AI in HEP Theory - Ali Shehper  
PM
17:30 --- Welcome reception ---
12:50 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Event Generation and Detector Simulation (until 15:20)
14:00 DLScanner and LeStrat-Net: Machine learning for improved Monte Carlo exploration  
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 - CMS Collaboration  
14:00
Jet Physics (until 15:20)
14:00 Machine Learning Approaches for Investigating Jet Quenching in Quark-Gluon Plasma via Jet Substructures Analysis  
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 - CMS Collaboration  
15:20 --- Coffee break ---
15:50
Day Summary & Q/A (until 16:30)
15:50 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Keynote (until 17:30)
12:50 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Jet Physics (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  
15:00 Blooming LHC analyses with all-inclusive pretrained boosted-jet models - Congqiao Li (Peking University (CN))  
14:00
Uncertainties & Interpretability (until 15:20)
14:00 Physics-guided Machine Learning in Cosmology  
14:20 Fair Universe HiggsML Uncertainty Challenge: Benchmark for Uncertainty-Aware Machine Learning in High Energy Physics  
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  
15:20 --- Coffee break ---
15:50
Day Summary & Q/A (until 16:30)
16:30
Keynote (until 17:30)
12:50 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Jet Physics (until 15:20)
14:00 Transformer-based tagger for boosted Higgs  
14:20 Fragmentation tagging - Yevgeny Kats (Ben-Gurion University)  
14:40 The Pareto Frontier of Resilient Jet Tagging - Rikab Gambhir (MIT)  
15:00 Integrating Energy Flow Networks with Jet Substructure Observables for Enhanced Jet Quenching Studies - João A. Gonçalves (LIP - IST)  
14:00
Unfolding & Inference (until 15:20)
14:00 Data-Driven High Dimensional Statistical Inference with Generative Models  
14:20 A High-Dimensional, Unbinned Standard Model Measurement with the ATLAS Experiment  
14:40 Higgs Signal Strength Estimation with a Dual-Branch GNN under Systematic Uncertainties  
15:00 wifi Ensembles for Simulation-Based Inference with Systematic Uncertainties - Sean Benevedes (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  
15:20 --- Coffee break ---
15:50
Day Summary & Q/A (until 16:30)
18:00 --- Social dinner ---
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:10
Fast ML (until 15:30)
14:10 Efficient Transformers for Jet Tagging  
14:30 Jet calibration with in-stiu pileu suppression for the L1 trigger - Ben Carlson (Westmont College)  
14:50 GELATO: A Generic Event-Level Anomalous Trigger Option for ATLAS  
15:10 Real-Time Compression of CMS Detector Data Using Conditional Autoencoders - Zachary Baldwin (Carnegie Mellon University)  
14:10
Unfolding & Inference (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  
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
Day Summary & Q/A (until 16:40)
12:10 Closing remarks