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In this paper, we present the results of charged particle track reconstruction in CLAS12 using artificial intelligence. In our approach, we use neural networks working together to identify tracks based on the raw signals in the Drift Chambers. A Convolutional Auto-Encoder is used to de-noise raw data by removing the hits that do not satisfy the patterns for tracks, and second Multi-Layer Perceptron is used to identify tracks from combinations of clusters in the drift chambers. Our method increases the tracking efficiency by 50% for multi-particle final states already conducted experiments. The de-noising results indicate that future experiments can run at higher luminosity without degradation of the data quality. This in turn will lead to significant benefits for the CLAS12 physics program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) data principles serve as a framework for examining, evaluating, and improving data sharing to advance scientific endeavors. There is an emerging trend to adapt these principles for machine learning models—algorithms that learn from data without specific coding—and, more generally, AI models, due to AI's swiftly growing impact on scientific and engineering sectors. In this paper, we propose a practical definition of the FAIR principles for AI models and provide a template program for their adoption. We exemplify this strategy with an implementation from high-energy physics, where a graph neural network is employed to detect Higgs bosons decaying into two bottom quarks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Computer paralinguistic analysis is widely used in security systems, biometric research, call centers and banks. Paralinguistic models estimate different physical properties of voice, such as pitch, intensity, formants and harmonics to classify emotions. The main goal is to find such features that would be robust to outliers and will retain variety of human voice properties at the same time. Moreover, the model used must be able to estimate features on a time scale for an effective analysis of voice variability. In this paper a paralinguistic model based on Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BLSTM) neural network is described, which was trained for vocal-based emotion recognition. The main advantage of this network architecture is that each module of the network consists of several interconnected layers, providing the ability to recognize flexible long-term dependencies in data, which is important in context of vocal analysis. We explain the architecture of a bidirectional neural network model, its main advantages over regular neural networks and compare experimental results of BLSTM network with other models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The evolution of modern heterogeneous accelerators, such as GPUs, has significantly advanced the landscape of artificial intelligence (AI). There is a notable surge to adopt AI within the nuclear physics domain (AI4NP). While most AI4NP studies focus on feasibility analysis, our attention is directed towards evaluating their performance on contemporary GPUs that integrate tensor cores. We first benchmark the throughput of hyperparameterized multi-layer perceptron (MLP) models. We then examine the performance of an AI4NP application: Hydra. We assess the performance gain and accuracy loss caused by the tensor cores for low-precision floating-point operations. Our experiments encompass the PyTorch and TensorFlow Keras frameworks on NVIDIA's T4 and A100 GPUs. We explore the behavior of different GPU hardware platforms and AI software tools. This study can be a valuable resource for guiding the performance optimization of larger-scale deployments of AI4NP applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The continuous growth in model complexity in high-energy physics (HEP) collider experiments demands increasingly time-consuming model fits. We show first results on the application of conditional invertible networks (cINNs) to this challenge. Specifically, we construct and train a cINN to learn the mapping from signal strength modifiers to observables and its inverse. The resulting network infers the posterior distribution of the signal strength modifiers rapidly and for low computational cost. We present performance indicators of such a setup including the treatment of systematic uncertainties. Additionally, we highlight the features of cINNs estimating the signal strength for a vector boson associated Higgs production analysis of simulated samples of events, which include a simulation of the CMS detector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]