High Energy Physics

Shi Qiu, Junyi Deng, Yiwei Deng et al.

This benchmark provides a rigorous, expert-validated test for evaluating AI agents' capability to autonomously reproduce scientific research, revealing systematic failures that must be addressed for progress in AI-driven science.

Nathaniel S. Woodward, Zhiqi Gao, Yurii Kvasiuk et al.

This work provides a foundation for developing domain-specific reasoning capabilities in small LLMs for theoretical physics, addressing the scarcity of verifiable training data.

Darius A. Faroughy, Sofia Palacios Schweitzer, Ian Pang et al.

This benchmark addresses the need for realistic, domain-specific evaluation of AI agents in scientific research, particularly for complex, long-horizon tasks.

Vasilis Niarchos, Constantinos Papageorgakis, Alexander G. Stapleton et al.

This work provides a controlled testbed for evaluating interaction structures in AI-driven scientific discovery, offering practical insights for researchers using LLMs in theoretical physics.

Justin Berman, Francois Charton, Andres Luna et al.

This work addresses a key bottleneck in high-precision calculations for particle and gravitational-wave physics, offering a practical improvement for multi-loop integral reduction.

Zachary Bogorad, Ibrahim Elsharkawy, Yonatan Kahn et al.

For high-energy physicists, this provides interpretable and reliable generative models that respect physical conservation laws exactly, addressing a key limitation of approximate methods.

Ahmed Hammad, Mihoko Nojiri

For researchers using LLMs in scientific computing, the framework enhances reproducibility and understanding of generated analyses.

Oz Amram, Darius A. Faroughy, Tjarko Gerdes et al.

For researchers training large generative models for collider physics, this work provides the first empirical evidence that scaling laws for jet generation differ from language models, highlighting fundamental limits in data and compute scaling.

Judy Fox, Geoffrey Fox

For scientists and researchers, this work provides practical agentic AI systems that automate data curation and report generation, though the approach is incremental.

Nathan Benjamin, A. Liam Fitzpatrick, Wei Li et al.

This work addresses the challenge of identifying unknown CFTs in theoretical physics, particularly in a parameter range lacking known examples, though it is incremental as it builds on existing modular bootstrap methods with technical improvements.

Gregor Krzmanc, Vinicius Mikuni, Benjamin Nachman et al.

This work demonstrates that particle physics foundation models can generalize across vastly different energy scales and detector technologies, enabling detector-agnostic inference for the particle physics community.

Karim Benakli

For theoretical physicists exploring extra dimensions, this work provides a novel information-theoretic perspective on Kaluza-Klein towers as communication carriers, but remains speculative and incremental.

Saurabh Rai, Sanmay Ganguly

For jet physics practitioners, this work demonstrates that mechanistic interpretability methods from NLP can uncover physically meaningful circuits in jet taggers, providing a new tool for understanding and validating deep learning models in high-energy physics.

Sascha Diefenbacher, Sofia Palacios Schweitzer, Gregor Kasieczka

This work addresses the problem of validating generative models for physicists using them as fast surrogates and density estimators.

Ibrahim Elsharkawy, Joschka Birk, Vinicius Mikuni et al.

For researchers building foundation models in simulation-based sciences, this study provides a systematic comparison of pre-training objectives, revealing task-specific optimal strategies and the need for multi-objective pre-training for transfer across classification and generation.

Karla Tame-Narvaez, Steven Gardiner, Aleksandra Ćiprijanović et al.

This work addresses the need for more precise nuclear interaction simulations in neutrino physics, though it is incremental as it builds on existing tuning methods with a machine learning approach.

Sven Krippendorf, Joseph Tooby-Smith

This provides a correctness-first, reusable workflow for theoretical physicists to handle combinatorially difficult model-building problems with theorem-backed guarantees, though it is incremental as it builds on existing ITP methods in a specific domain.

Ethan Baker, Hongwan Liu, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma

For cosmologists studying CMB spectral distortions, this provides the first fully open-source code for such computations, though the scientific contribution is incremental.

Diego F. Vasquez Plaza, Vidya Manian

This addresses the problem of precise jet classification for physicists at the LHC, offering incremental improvements over existing methods.

Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, Tracy R. Slatyer, Yitian Sun et al.

This work provides a flexible, probabilistic framework for astrophysical gamma-ray analyses, addressing the long-standing GCE puzzle by accounting for a continuum of spatial morphologies.