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This work is the result of a collaboration with Prof. A. Nwala and his team at Data Science, W&M. We utilized our network ELUQuant, originally developed for event-level uncertainty quantification in DIS, for bot detection with uncertainty quantification
Link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.13929
Abstract:
Social bots remain a major vector for spreading disinformation on social media and a menace to the public. Despite the progress made in developing multiple sophisticated social bot detection algorithms and tools, bot detection remains a challenging, unsolved problem that is fraught with uncertainty due to the heterogeneity of bot behaviors, training data, and detection algorithms. Detection models often disagree on whether to label the same account as bot or human-controlled. However, they do not provide any measure of uncertainty to indicate how much we should trust their results. We propose to address both bot detection and the quantification of uncertainty at the account level — a novel feature of this research. This dual focus is crucial as it allows us to leverage additional information related to the quantified uncertainty of each prediction, thereby enhancing decision-making and improving the reliability of bot classifications. Specifically, our approach facilitates targeted interventions for bots when predictions are made with high confidence and suggests caution (e.g., gathering more data) when predictions are uncertain
AI-assisted Design Bootcamp: it has been really nice to host this bootcamp at W&M, and wonderful interaction with all the attendees. Below a link to the Git Book of this experience, and a picture with the participants
https://aid2e.github.io/boot-camp-2024/intro.html
ArXiv link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.07376
Imaging Cherenkov detectors are crucial for particle identification (PID) in nuclear and particle physics experiments. Fast reconstruction algorithms are essential for near real-time alignment, calibration, data quality control, and efficient analysis. At the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), the ePIC detector will feature a dual Ring Imaging Cherenkov (dual-RICH) detector in the hadron direction, a
Detector of Internally Reflected Cherenkov (DIRC) in the barrel, and a proximity focus RICH in the electron direction. This paper focuses on the DIRC detector, which presents complex hit patterns and is also used for PID of pions and kaons in the GlueX experiment at JLab. We present Deep(er)RICH, an extension of the seminal DeepRICH work, offering improved and faster PID compared to traditional methods and, for the first time, fast and accurate simulation. This advancement addresses a major bottleneck in Cherenkov detector simulations involving photon tracking through complex optical elements. Our results leverage advancements in Vision Transformers, specifically hierarchical Swin Transformer and normalizing flows. These methods enable direct learning from real data and the reconstruction of complex topologies. We conclude by discussing the implications and future extensions of this work, which can offer capabilities for PID for multiple cutting- edge experiments like the future EIC.
Dr. Karthik Suresh, a current postdoctoral researcher in Data Science at William & Mary has been awarded the prestigious JSA Ph.D. Thesis Prize for his outstanding doctoral thesis at Jefferson Lab. Dr. Suresh completed his Ph.D. at the University of Regina, where he was co-supervised by Professor Zisis Papandreou and W&M Assistant Professor of Data Science, Cristiano Fanelli. He then transitioned to William & Mary to collaborate with Dr. Fanelli on a grant-funded project focused on AI-assisted Detector Design for the Electron Ion Collider.
M. Diefenthaler, C. Fanelli, L. O. Gerlach, W. Guan, T. Horn, A. Jentsch, M. Lin, K. Nagai, H. Nayak, C. Pecar, K. Suresh, A. Vossen, T. Wang, T. Wenaus (AID (2) E collaboration)
Cristiano Fanelli, James Giroux, Patrick Moran, Hemalata Nayak, Karthik Suresh, Eric Walter
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.05752.pdf [2404.05752v1 physics.data-an]
Information on the corresponding hackathon event can be found at https://eic.ai/hackathons
K. Suresh, N. Kackar, L. Schleck, C. Fanelli, arXiv:2403.15729v1 [cs.CL] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.15729.pdf
The app can be accessed through https://rags4eic-ai4eic.streamlit.app/
Link to 2023 Hackathon: Physics Event Classification Using Large Language Models (organized by C. Fanelli, J. Giroux, P. Moran, K. Suresh)
Our paper has been accepted to the NeurIPS 2023 workshop on Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences
Workshop website: https://ml4physicalsciences.github.ioOur Data Science team will collaborate in this project with W&M co-PI (Prof. Mordijck) to organize a yearly summer school on AI/ML for fusion energy at William & Mary.
Prof. Fanelli at W&M will be lead PI of the project AIDE (AI-assisted Detector design at the Electron Ion Collider). EIC is an accelerator project under construction at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) that will probe the internal structure and forces of protons and neutrons that compose the atomic nucleus. This collaborative project involves co-PIs of national labs at Brookhaven National Lab and Jefferson Lab, as well as of other universities, Catholic University of America, and Duke University.
Prof. Fanelli will be co-PI of the project AI-Optimized Polarization, led by Jefferson Lab. W&M will collaborate to provide a continuous AI/ML control for the polarized beam at the GlueX experiment in Hall D.
More info at:
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDOEOS/bulletins/36b5803
Lectures on AI/ML for Nuclear Physics and the Electron Ion Collider
More info at:
https://www.jlab.org/conference/hugs2023
https://cfteach.github.io/HUGS23/intro.html
