Build Big or Build Smart: Examing Scale and Domain Knowledge in Machine Learning for Fundamental Physics

Europe/Berlin
Auditorium (IAS)

Auditorium

IAS

Lichtenbergstraße 2a 85748 Garching bei München
Lukas Heinrich, Margarita Osadchy, Michael Kagan, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, Tobias Golling
Description

This Topical Workshop is embedded into the large MIAPbP Workshop examining the connection of inductive bias versus scale in AI/ML models for fundamental physics.

 

The workshop also provides a discussion forum for the EuCAIF (European Coalition for AI in Fundamental Physics) Working Group 1 on "Foundation Models". During the workshop, we will discuss how to chart a common European strategy towards building large-scale AI/ML models to process high-dimensional theoretical and experimental data in particle physics, astronomy, cosmology and related fields.

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Topic: EuCAIF Workshop: Build Big or Build Smart
Time: Sep 3, 2025 09:00 AM Zurich
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Registration
Registration MIAPbP / EuCAIF WG1
Participants
    • 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
      EuCAIF WG1 Discussions 2h
    • 9:00 AM 9:10 AM
      Intro and Welcome 10m
      Speaker: Lukas Heinrich (TUM)
    • 9:10 AM 10:10 AM
      End-to-End ML for Neutrinos 1h
      Speaker: Kazuhiro Terao
    • 10:10 AM 11:00 AM
      Foundation Models in HEP 50m
      Speaker: Anna Hallin
    • 11:00 AM 11:20 AM
      Coffee Break 20m
    • 11:20 AM 11:50 AM
      The limits of ML methods in HEP 30m
      Speaker: Humberto Reyes
    • 1:15 PM 2:15 PM
      Foundation Models in Astro/Cosmo 1h
      Speaker: Francois Lanusse
    • 2:15 PM 3:00 PM
      Foundation Models in Nuclear Physics (remote) 45m
      Speaker: Yihui Ren
    • 3:00 PM 3:20 PM
      Coffee Break 20m
    • 3:20 PM 3:45 PM
      Build Big Meets Build Smart To Explore The Universe 25m
      Speaker: Carol Cuesta
    • 3:45 PM 4:20 PM
      Calibration of High-Dimensional Latent Representations 35m
      Speaker: Malte Algren
    • 4:20 PM 5:00 PM
      Large Physics Models 40m
      Speaker: Sascha Caron
    • 9:00 AM 9:35 AM
      Transformers and Symmetries 35m
      Speaker: Jonas Spinner
    • 9:35 AM 10:10 AM
      SBI in Gravitational Waves 35m
      Speaker: Annalena Kofler
    • 10:10 AM 10:30 AM
      Coffee Break 20m
    • 10:30 AM 11:05 AM
      What we actually want: The misspecified promise of FMs 35m
      Speaker: Micah Bowles
    • 11:05 AM 11:40 AM
      Transfomers for SKA 35m
      Speaker: Ayodele Ore
    • 11:40 AM 12:00 PM
      Closeout 20m
      Speaker: Lukas Heinrich (TUM)
    • 2:00 PM 4:00 PM
      Informal Discussions 2h