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Parameters Is All You Need: Tiny Neural Networks for Particle Physics (arxiv.org)
2 points by PaulHoule on Nov 7, 2023 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: A neural network shrunk to just 19 tunable numbers, built so its answer stays the same when collision particles are reordered or the event is rotated. It spots jets from top quarks more accurately than generic networks with tens of thousands of parameters.

Abstract · 19 Parameters Is All You Need: Tiny Neural Networks for Particle Physics

As particle accelerators increase their collision rates, and deep learning solutions prove their viability, there is a growing need for lightweight and fast neural network architectures for low-latency tasks such as triggering. We examine the potential of one recent Lorentz- and permutation-symmetric architecture, PELICAN, and present its instances with as few as 19 trainable parameters that outperform generic architectures with tens of thousands of parameters when compared on the binary classification task of top quark jet tagging.

Alexander Bogatskiy, Timothy Hoffman, Jan T. Offermann
arXiv:2310.16121 · hep-ph, cs.LG, hep-ex · submitted Oct 24, 2023 · updated Dec 13, 2023
abstract · pdf · html · 5 pages, submitted to the "Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences" NeurIPS 2023 Workshop

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