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New lightweight foundation model NEXUS adapts collider physics AI for broader scientific use

Researchers have developed NEXUS, a lightweight foundation model designed for collider physics that utilizes pre-trained learning from the Large Hadron Collider. This model, with approximately 3 million parameters, demonstrates improved accuracy on downstream tasks like kinematic regression and event classification, even with limited labeled data. NEXUS also shows potential for multi-domain adaptation to areas such as gravitational waves and flood forecasting, offering a more computationally efficient alternative to transformer models for scientific applications. AI

IMPACT This model's efficiency and multi-domain adaptation could accelerate AI adoption in various scientific fields.

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New lightweight foundation model NEXUS adapts collider physics AI for broader scientific use

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Liangyu Wu, Qibin Liu, Alexander Yue, Julia Gonski ·

    A Lightweight Foundation Model for Collider Physics with Multi-Domain Adaptation

    arXiv:2607.27501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a lightweight approach to foundation modeling (\textbf{NEXUS}) that leverages pre-trained learning from collider physics data towards out-of-domain tasks in other scientific datasets, using a fully connected autoencoder m…