Summary of Zephyr Quantum-assisted Hierarchical Calo4pqvae For Particle-calorimeter Interactions, by Ian Lu et al.
Zephyr quantum-assisted hierarchical Calo4pQVAE for particle-calorimeter interactions
by Ian Lu, Hao Jia, Sebastian Gonzalez, Deniz Sogutlu, J. Quetzalcoatl Toledo-Marin, Sehmimul Hoque, Abhishek Abhishek, Colin Gay, Roger Melko, Eric Paquet, Geoffrey Fox, Maximilian Swiatlowski, Wojciech Fedorko
First submitted to arxiv on: 6 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); High Energy Physics – Phenomenology (hep-ph); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed approach aims to address the increasing computational demands of traditional collision simulation methods by integrating deep generative models with quantum simulations. The authors develop a quantum-assisted hierarchical deep generative surrogate, combining a variational autoencoder (VAE) with an energy conditioned restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM). This hybrid framework leverages the topology of D-Wave’s Zephyr quantum annealer to accelerate shower generation times significantly. Evaluation is performed using Dataset 2 of the CaloChallenge 2022. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper uses computer models and a special kind of computer called a “quantum simulator” to help make predictions about what happens when tiny particles collide in very powerful machines called particle accelerators. Right now, these machines are really busy and we need better ways to predict what will happen before it actually does. The authors created a new way to do this by combining two different types of computer models: one that uses a special kind of math called “quantum simulation” and another that is very good at learning from data. They tested their idea using some real data and it worked really well. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Variational autoencoder
