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

Name: Build Big or Build Smart: Examing Scale and Domain Knowledge in Machine Learning for Fundamental Physics
Start: 2025-09-03T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-09-05T17:00:00+02:00
Location: IAS

Sep 3, 2025, 10:00 AM → Sep 5, 2025, 5:00 PM Europe/Berlin

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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

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Wed, September 3
- 1
  
  EuCAIF WG1 Discussions
Thu, September 4
- 2
  
  Intro and Welcome
  
  Speaker: Lukas Heinrich (TUM)
- 3
  
  End-to-End ML for Neutrinos
  
  Speaker: Kazuhiro Terao
  
  Kazu
- 4
  
  Foundation Models in HEP
  
  Speaker: Anna Hallin
  
  Foundation_models_for_HEP_Anna_Hallin.pdf
- 11:00 AM
  
  Coffee Break
- 5
  
  The limits of ML methods in HEP
  
  Speaker: Humberto Reyes
  
  MLlimits_miapbp.pdf
- 6
  
  Foundation Models in Astro/Cosmo
  
  Speaker: Francois Lanusse
  
  Talk
- 7
  
  Foundation Models in Nuclear Physics (remote)
  
  Speaker: Yihui Ren
  
  YRen_EuCAIF_30min_FM4NPP_0903_2025.pdf
- 3:00 PM
  
  Coffee Break
- 8
  
  Build Big Meets Build Smart To Explore The Universe
  
  Speaker: Carol Cuesta
  
  MIAPbP Talk
- 9
  
  Calibration of High-Dimensional Latent Representations
  
  Speaker: Malte Algren
- 10
  
  Large Physics Models
  
  Speaker: Sascha Caron
Fri, September 5
- 11
  
  Transformers and Symmetries
  
  Speaker: Jonas Spinner
  
  munich-symmetries.pdf
- 12
  
  SBI in Gravitational Waves
  
  Speaker: Annalena Kofler
  
  20250905_sbi_in_gws_print.pdf
- 10:10 AM
  
  Coffee Break
- 13
  
  What we actually want: The misspecified promise of FMs
  
  Speaker: Micah Bowles
  
  2025_BuildBigorBuildSmart_FM_physics.pdf
- 14
  
  Transfomers for SKA
  
  Speaker: Ayodele Ore
  
  ska_transformer_miapbp.pdf
- 15
  
  Closeout
  
  Speaker: Lukas Heinrich (TUM)
- 16
  
  Informal Discussions

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