EPIGRAPHY Kickoff School & Workshop (Lisbon)

Jan 12, 2026, 9:00 AM → Jan 15, 2026, 6:00 PM Europe/Lisbon

Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1 (Instituto Superior Técnico)

Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB)), Ines Ochoa (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT)), Patricia Conde Muino (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT)), Thea Aarrestad (ETH Zurich (CH))

The first EPIGRAPHY (Edge deeP learnInG foR pArticle PHYsics) school & workshop will be hosted at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Alameda Campus, Lisbon, January 12 - 15, 2026. 

In-person participation is limited to registered participants, but online participation is open to all.

This event is co-organised by the Laboratory of Instrumentation and Particle Physics (LIP), INESC-ID and IST.

 

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Local Organising Committee Inês Ochoa (LIP) Patricia Conde Muino (LIP, IST) Nuno Roma (INESC-ID, IST) Pedro Tomás (INESC-ID, IST) Ana Rita Ferreira Carvalho (LIP, IST) Bruno Rodrigues (LIP, FCUL)

Scientific Committee Benedikt Maier (Imperial College) Thea Aarrestad (ETH Zurich) Sioni Summers (CERN) Santeri Laurila (Helsinki Institute of Physics) Joosep Pata (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics) Nuno Roma (INESC-ID, IST) Deniz Sunar Cerci (Yildiz Technical University)

 

 

 

Mon, January 12

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM General

General Intro

WGX Next Steps

9:00 AM Welcome & Introduction

Speakers: Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB)), Ines Ochoa (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT))

EPIGRPAHY_Kickoff_Jan12.pdf

TecnicoGues.pdf

9:30 AM → 12:00 PM WG1: Architecture-specific compression techniques

first tutorial

introduction-FPGAs

LHC_FastML.mp4

quantization & tutorial

9:30 AM Introduction to LHC data with ML and FastML

Speaker: Maciej Mikolaj Glowacki (CERN)

Machine Learning With LHC Data-epigraphy.pdf

Notebook exercise

10:45 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM Neural network quantization with Brevitas

Speaker: Giuseppe Franco (AMD)

Brevitas Introduction.pdf

video1461099156.mp4

12:00 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM WG1: Architecture-specific compression techniques

first tutorial

introduction-FPGAs

LHC_FastML.mp4

quantization & tutorial

1:30 PM Introduction to FPGAs & hls4ml

Speaker: Christopher Edward Brown (CERN)

Introduction_to_FPGAs.pdf

Notebook exercise

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Coffee break

3:30 PM → 6:00 PM WG1: Architecture-specific compression techniques

first tutorial

introduction-FPGAs

LHC_FastML.mp4

quantization & tutorial

3:30 PM Quantization for FPGAs

Speaker: Chang Sun (California Institute of Technology (US))

HGQ2 usage examples

JSC HLF with HGQ(-LUT) w/ da4ml

JSC HLF with HGQ w/ hls4ml

slides.pdf

5:00 PM An example from A to Z: Jet tagging with quantised GNNs and Transformers

Speaker: Lauri Antti Olavi Laatu (Imperial College (GB))

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/16ssNbl3SRF_3z8Fj-B8o95SBEX0fnctv?usp=sharing

train_hgq_epigraph.ipynb

video1117961818.mp4

Tue, January 13

9:00 AM → 11:30 AM WG2: Advanced compression with XAI

xAI and tutorial

xAI: outside perspective

9:00 AM An introduction to XAI

Speaker: Stefano Giagu (Sapienza Università di Roma and INFN Roma (IT))

EPIGRAPHY_xAI_Introduction.pdf

10:15 AM Tutorial & Practicals on Knowledge Distillation

Speaker: Andrea Ciardiello

Notebook (solution)

Notebook (student)

Slides

Slides

11:30 AM → 12:30 PM Lunch

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM WG2: Advanced compression with XAI

xAI and tutorial

xAI: outside perspective

12:30 PM XAI: An outside perspective

Speaker: Marte Eggen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

EPIGRAPHY Methods in XAI.pdf

1:30 PM → 4:30 PM WG4: ASIC-for-AI design

ASICs at CMS

ASICs FCC-ee

Smart Pixels

1:30 PM Introduction to ASICs

Speaker: Marcelino dos Santos (IST)

Introduction to ASICs design.pdf

Introduction to ASICs design.pptx

video1058036541.mp4

2:45 PM Coffee break

3:30 PM ASICs at CMS

Speaker: Davide Ceresa (CERN)

CMS_OT_EPIGRAPHY.pdf

GMT20260113-153101_Recording_1920x1080.mp4

4:30 PM → 6:15 PM Outreach

4:30 PM Fast Artificial Intelligence to solve the mysteries of the Universe

Speaker: Thea Aarrestad (ETH Zurich (CH))

5:15 PM Panel Discussion

Wed, January 14

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM WG1

Announcements_Wednesday.pdf

WG1

9:00 AM Challenges & Opportunities in CMS

Speaker: Emyr Clement (University of Bristol (GB))

Emyr_EPIGRAPHY26.pdf

9:30 AM Challenges & Opportunities for ATLAS through the NGT Project

Speaker: David Reikher (CERN)

EPIGRAPHY-NGT-WP2-jan-14-2026-5.pdf

10:00 AM Challenges & Opportunities in Edge Inference for Belle II

Speaker: Isabel Haide (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

epigraphy_kickoff_belleii.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM WG4: ASIC-for-AI design

ASICs at CMS

ASICs FCC-ee

Smart Pixels

11:00 AM AI on ASICs: SmartPixels

Speaker: Danush Shekar (University of Illinois Chicago (US))

danush_EPIGRAPHY26.pdf

danush_EPIGRAPHY26.pptx

12:00 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 2:00 PM WG4: ASIC-for-AI design

ASICs at CMS

ASICs FCC-ee

Smart Pixels

1:30 PM Towards ASICs for the FCC-ee

Speaker: Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB))

EPIGRAPHY_FCCee.pdf

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM WG1-5

data challenge discussion

Intro to dataset

PQuantML

Transformers on FPGAs

2:00 PM Transformers on FPGAs

Speaker: Arianna Cox (Imperial College (GB))

slides

slides

2:30 PM PQuantML

Speaker: Roope Oskari Niemi

PQuantML_EPIGRAPHY.pdf

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Industry

Fast Decision Forests

3:00 PM Fast Decision Forests (Google)

Speaker: Richard Stotz

[EXTERNAL] Decision Forests at Google - EPIGRAPHY, 2026.pdf

slides

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM → 6:00 PM WG1-5

data challenge discussion

Intro to dataset

PQuantML

Transformers on FPGAs

4:00 PM Introduction to dataset

Speaker: Philip Oliver Ploner (ETH Zurich (CH))

260114_EPIGRAPHY.pdf

4:30 PM Data challenge ideation & creation

Speakers: Akseli Suutari (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (FI)), Arianna Cox (Imperial College (GB)), Christopher Edward Brown (CERN), Dorian Sloot (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT)), Ioannis Xiotidis (CERN), Sebastian Dittmeier (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE)), Sioni Paris Summers (CERN), Torben Ferber (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

Dataset

Defining the task

epigraphy_data_challenge.pdf

EPIGRAPHY_ What makes a good challenge_.docx

EPIGRAPHY_ What makes a good challenge_.pdf

7:00 PM → 9:00 PM Social dinner

Thu, January 15

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Learning from other communities

EuCAIF

NGT and MLQC4FC

9:00 AM EuCAIF

Speaker: Maurizio Pierini (CERN)

EuCAIF_COSTmeeting.pdf

NGT_EPIGRAPHY_202601.pdf

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Coffee break

10:30 AM → 12:00 PM Learning from other communities

EuCAIF

NGT and MLQC4FC

10:30 AM Next-Generation Trigger

Speaker: Sebastian Dittmeier (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

NGT_EPIGRAPHY_202601.pdf

11:15 AM CA24146 - Machine Learning and Quantum Computing for Future Colliders (MLQC4FC)

Speakers: Riccardo Torre (Dipartimento di Fisica - Università di Pisa and INFN Sezione di Pisa), Riccardo Torre (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))

Slides

Slides

12:00 PM → 1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM → 2:30 PM General

General Intro

WGX Next Steps

1:00 PM WG1: Next Steps

Speakers: Sebastian Dittmeier (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE)), Sioni Paris Summers (CERN), Torben Ferber (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

epigraphy_wg1_next_steps.pdf

1:15 PM WG2: Next Steps

Speakers: Santeri Laurila (CERN & Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI)), Stefano Giagu (Sapienza Università di Roma and INFN Roma (IT))

EPIGRAPHY_WG2_plans_LisbonJan26.pdf

1:30 PM WG3: Next steps

Speakers: Ines Ochoa (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT)), Joosep Pata (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))

Epigraphy WG3_ End-to-end, 2026 kickoff meeting (1).pdf

1:45 PM WG4: Next steps

Speakers: André David (CERN), Nuno Roma

2:00 PM WG5: Next steps

Speakers: Deniz Sunar Cerci (Yildiz Technical University (TR)), Felice Pantaleo (CERN), Salim Cerci (Yildiz Technical University (TR))

WG5_15012026.pdf

2:15 PM EPIGRAPHY: Next steps

Speakers: Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB)), Thea Aarrestad (ETH Zurich (CH))

EPIGRAPHY_Closeout.pdf

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM Coffee break