Third Machine Learning in High Energy Physics Summer School 2017

Europe/London
Reading University (Reading)

Reading University

Reading

Reading University, Reading, United Kingdom
Andrey Ustyuzhanin (Yandex School of Data Analysis (RU)), Ulrik Egede (Imperial College (GB))
Description

The Third Machine Learning summer school organized by Yandex School of Data AnalysisLaboratory of Methods for Big Data Analysis of National Research University Higher School of Economics and Imperial College London will be held in Reading, UK from 17 to 23 July 2017.

The school is intended to cover the relatively young area of data analysis and computational research that has started to emerge in High Energy Physics (HEP). It is known by several names including “Multivariate Analysis”, “Neural Networks”, “Classification/Clusterization techniques”. In more generic terms, these techniques belong to the field of “Machine Learning”, which is an area that is based on research performed in Statistics and has received a lot of attention from the Data Science community.

There are plenty of essential problems in High energy Physics that can be solved using Machine Learning methods. These vary from online data filtering and reconstruction to offline data analysis.

Students of the school will receive a theoretical and practical introduction to this new field and will be able to apply acquired knowledge to solve their own problems. Topics ranging from decision trees to deep learning and hyperparameter optimization will be covered with concrete examples and hands-on tutorials. A special data-science competition will be organized within the school to allow participants to get better feeling of real-life ML applications scenarios.

Expected number of students for the school is 50-60 people.

Pre-requisites for participation

Upon completion of the school participants would be able to

  • formulate a HEP-related problem in ML-friendly terms
  • select quality criteria for a given problem
  • understand and apply principles of widely-used classification models (e.g. boosting, bagging, BDT, neural networks, etc) to practical cases
  • optimize features and parameters of a given model in efficient way under given restrictions
  • select the best classifier implementation amongst a variety of ML libraries (scikit-learn, xgboost, deep learning libraries, etc)
  • define & conduct reproducible data-driven experiments

School competition

Details on the school Machine Learning competition are provided on the dedicated page.

Organizers

Imperial College London

Partners

Sponsors

The school is sponsored by Winton which allows us to provide a subsidy for students who are not able to afford the registration fee out of their own funds. See registration fee page for details. 

GPU resources in the cloud are provided by Microsoft Azure.

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        'Welcome to MLHEP' Opening Words
        Speakers: Andrey Ustyuzhanin (Yandex School of Data Analysis (RU)), Ulrik Egede (Imperial College (GB))
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        Lecture 1. Introduction. Why ML works. Overfitting. Model Selection. Figures of Merits. Linear Models. Regularization. Logistic Regression.
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        Competition Introduction
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        Seminar 1. Python data crunching: numpy, root_numpy, pandas (very short), matplotlib.
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        Lecture 2. Decision Trees. Bagging. Ensembles. RandomForest. AdaBoost. GB-Reweighting. Gradient Boosting. Decorrelation of features with predictions.
        Speaker: Alexey Artemov (Yandex)
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        Seminar 2. Matplotlib, Trees & Linear Models in SciKit Learn. Overfitting checks & prevention.
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        Lecture 3. Ensembling: Adaboost, Stacking. Gradient Boosting.
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        Lecture 4. Hyperparameters optimization techniques and methods. Feature selection. TPE. Gaussian Processes
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        Seminar 4. Optimization of hyper-parameters, applications to challenge.
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        Lecture 5. Introduction into Neural Network models. Multi-layered Perceptron. Backpropagation.
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        Seminar 5. Computing gradient by hand. Tensorflow. Keras. Remote machine setup. Getting familiar with GPU.
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        Lecture 6. Intro into Deep learning. Convolutional Neural Network. Model zoo. Augmentation.
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        Guest Lecture
        Speaker: Noel Dawe (University of Melbourne (AU))
    • Practice: challenge & industry: ML Projects & Problems @ HEP Reading University

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        Lecture 7. Dimensionality Reduction. PCA. LDA. LLE. TSNE. Autoencoders.
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    • 19:00
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      School dinner at the Bel & Dragon placed at Blake's lock on the river Kennet. https://goo.gl/maps/UFhMauYXAs12

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        Lecture 8 Generative Adversarial Networks, Metric Learning.
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        Seminar 8 Generative Adversarial Networks (physics)
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