Name: Round Table on Machine Learning @ DESY 2020
Start: 2020-12-04T10:30:00+01:00
End: 2020-12-04T12:30:00+01:00
Location: Zoom

Round Table on Machine Learning @ DESY 2020

Friday, 4 December 2020 - 10:30

Monday, 30 November 2020
Tuesday, 1 December 2020
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Thursday, 3 December 2020
Friday, 4 December 2020
10:30 Welcome - Philipp Heuser (IT (Informationstechnik))
Welcome
- Philipp Heuser (IT (Informationstechnik))
10:30 - 10:35
10:35 ML related news from IT - Frank Schluenzen (IT (Informationstechnik))
ML related news from IT
- Frank Schluenzen (IT (Informationstechnik))
10:35 - 10:42
10:42 AI technologies for particle accelerator operation - Ilya Agapov (DESY)
AI technologies for particle accelerator operation
- Ilya Agapov (DESY)
10:42 - 10:49
The M devision is pursuing an ambitious goal of bringing AI into accelerator operation within the next years. Several groups are involved in a broadening spectrum of AI and ML R&D activities, some of which I will present. This will include surrogate modelling and virtual diagnostics, reinforcement learning for accelerator operation, virtual environments for training and evaluation of control agents, and deep neural networks for modelling and control of accelerators.
10:49 Towards online data reduction for serial crystallography using ML methods - Alireza Sadri (DESY)
Towards online data reduction for serial crystallography using ML methods
- Alireza Sadri (DESY)
10:49 - 10:56
The ML methods are explored to enable detecting crystals in SFX data and extract their properties online to avoid storing the entire dataset.
10:56 Machine Intelligence @ DESY Theory - Paul Ayan (DESY)
Machine Intelligence @ DESY Theory
- Paul Ayan (DESY)
10:56 - 11:03
I will highlight some efforts at using Interpretable Machine Learning for HEP Pheno analysis and modeling COVID-19 data.
11:03 Getting High: High Fidelity Simulation of High Granularity Calorimeters with High Speed - Engin Eren (DESY)
Getting High: High Fidelity Simulation of High Granularity Calorimeters with High Speed
- Engin Eren (DESY)
11:03 - 11:10
Accurate simulation of physical processes is crucial for the success of modern particle physics. However, simulating the development and interaction of particle showers with calorimeter detectors is a time consuming process and drives the computing needs of large experiments at the LHC and future colliders. Recently, generative machine learning models based on deep neural networks have shown promise in speeding up this task by several orders of magnitude. We investigate the use of a new architecture -- the Bounded Information Bottleneck Autoencoder -- for modelling electromagnetic showers in the central region of the Silicon-Tungsten calorimeter of the proposed International Large Detector. Combined with a novel second post-processing network, this approach achieves an accurate simulation of differential distributions including for the first time the shape of the minimum-ionizing-particle peak compared to a full GEANT4 simulation for a high-granularity calorimeter with 27k simulated channels. The results are validated by comparing to established architectures. Our results further strengthen the case of using generative networks for fast simulation and demonstrate that physically relevant differential distributions can be described with high accuracy.
11:10 Reconstruction of Long Lived Particles at CMS using graph neural networks - Lisa Benato (Hamburg University)
Reconstruction of Long Lived Particles at CMS using graph neural networks
- Lisa Benato (Hamburg University)
11:10 - 11:17
CMS standard reconstruction algorithms are not designed for challenging signatures such as decays of long lived particles: we will show two applications that can overcome these limitations by using graph neural networks.
11:17 NN
NN
11:17 - 11:24

11:24 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:24 - 11:34
11:34 ML developments for analysis, simulation, and fast decision making - Gregor Kasieczka (Institut fuer Experimentalphysik / UHH)
ML developments for analysis, simulation, and fast decision making
- Gregor Kasieczka (Institut fuer Experimentalphysik / UHH)
11:34 - 11:41
I will give a brief overview of recent machine learning projects in our group. This will include graph networks as a promising tool for the reconstruction of complex data, statistical aspects of generative models, new tools for automated decorrelation and background estimation, as well as plans for hardware-accelerated ML.
11:41 Semantic Segmentation in the MDLMA project - Ivo-Matteo Baltruschat (IT (IT Scientific Computing))
Semantic Segmentation in the MDLMA project
- Ivo-Matteo Baltruschat (IT (IT Scientific Computing))
11:41 - 11:48
DESY-IT, HZG and University Lübeck collaborate on the development of multimodal multitask learning methods involving the semantic segmentation of synchrotron CT data collected at Petra III.
11:48 Classification of diffraction patterns in single particle imaging experiments performed at X- ray free-electron lasers using a convolutional neural network - Alexandr Ignatenko (DESY)
Classification of diffraction patterns in single particle imaging experiments performed at X- ray free-electron lasers using a convolutional neural network
- Alexandr Ignatenko (DESY)
11:48 - 11:55
We show the results of classification for two convolutional neural networks with different depth and architecture, by applying them to different representations of the same data from a single particle imaging (SPI) experiment.
11:55 Teaching ML in High Energy Physics - Oleg Filatov (DESY)
Teaching ML in High Energy Physics
- Oleg Filatov (DESY)
11:55 - 12:02
We introduce a course of ML concepts for High Energy Physics-minded audience. The course balances between being concise, rich in theory and practical to build the skills required for modern HEP analysts. Infused with a classical Data Science approach, the course moreover includes variety of examples and an overview of recent ML applications in HEP. Aside from showcasing current developments we also discuss future prospects, plans and ideas.
12:02 ML Flow for developing machine learning - Erik Genthe (DESY)
ML Flow for developing machine learning
- Erik Genthe (DESY)
12:02 - 12:09
12:09 Helmholtz Imaging Platform - HIP - Sara Krause-Solberg (DESY)
Helmholtz Imaging Platform - HIP
- Sara Krause-Solberg (DESY)
12:09 - 12:16
12:16 Helmholtz AI - Consultant Team - Peter Steinbach (HZDR)
Helmholtz AI - Consultant Team
- Peter Steinbach (HZDR)
12:16 - 12:23
12:23 Wrap up / Conclusions - Philipp Heuser (IT (Informationstechnik))
Wrap up / Conclusions
- Philipp Heuser (IT (Informationstechnik))
12:23 - 12:30