On scientific understanding with artificial intelligence

M Krenn, R Pollice, SY Guo, M Aldeghi… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
An oracle that correctly predicts the outcome of every particle physics experiment, the
products of every possible chemical reaction or the function of every protein would …

Machine learning in the search for new fundamental physics

G Karagiorgi, G Kasieczka, S Kravitz… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Compelling experimental evidence suggests the existence of new physics beyond the well-
established and tested standard model of particle physics. Various current and upcoming …

The LHC Olympics 2020 a community challenge for anomaly detection in high energy physics

G Kasieczka, B Nachman, D Shih… - Reports on progress …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A new paradigm for data-driven, model-agnostic new physics searches at colliders is
emerging, and aims to leverage recent breakthroughs in anomaly detection and machine …

Classifying anomalies through outer density estimation

A Hallin, J Isaacson, G Kasieczka, C Krause… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We propose a new model-agnostic search strategy for physics beyond the standard model
(BSM) at the LHC, based on a novel application of neural density estimation to anomaly …

Model-agnostic search for dijet resonances with anomalous jet substructure in proton-proton collisions at = 13 TeV

CMS collaboration - arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.03747, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a model-agnostic search for narrow resonances in the dijet final state in
the mass range 1.8-6 TeV. The signal is assumed to produce jets with substructure atypical …

Challenges for unsupervised anomaly detection in particle physics

K Fraser, S Homiller, RK Mishra, B Ostdiek… - Journal of High Energy …, 2022 - Springer
A bstract Anomaly detection relies on designing a score to determine whether a particular
event is uncharacteristic of a given background distribution. One way to define a score is to …

Better latent spaces for better autoencoders

BM Dillon, T Plehn, C Sauer, P Sorrenson - SciPost Physics, 2021 - scipost.org
Autoencoders as tools behind anomaly searches at the LHC have the structural problem that
they only work in one direction, extracting jets with higher complexity but not the other way …

[HTML][HTML] Learning new physics from an imperfect machine

RT d'Agnolo, G Grosso, M Pierini, A Wulzer… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
We show how to deal with uncertainties on the Standard Model predictions in an agnostic
new physics search strategy that exploits artificial neural networks. Our approach builds …

Online-compatible unsupervised nonresonant anomaly detection

V Mikuni, B Nachman, D Shih - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
There is a growing need for anomaly detection methods that can broaden the search for new
particles in a model-agnostic manner. Most proposals for new methods focus exclusively on …

Anomaly detection under coordinate transformations

G Kasieczka, R Mastandrea, V Mikuni, B Nachman… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
There is a growing need for machine-learning-based anomaly detection strategies to
broaden the search for beyond-the-Standard-Model physics at the Large Hadron Collider …