24–28 Aug 2026
Kirchhoff Institute for Physics (KIP)
Europe/Berlin timezone

One Generator, Any Process: LLM-Conditioning for the LHC

25 Aug 2026, 11:50
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Speaker

Thanush Sivagnanalingam (University Heidelberg)

Description

Neural network training for LHC event generation should, ideally, benefit from common high-level patterns in different processes. We propose novel conditioning schemes for continuous parameters, process labels, and Feynman diagrams. We employ pre-trained LLMs as multi-modal foundation models to provide descriptive embeddings for an autoregressive transformer. With such high-level physics-inductive bias the generative networks converge faster, provide better result, and generalize to unseen processes.

Authors

Daniel Schiller (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University) Henning Bahl Thanush Sivagnanalingam (University Heidelberg) Tilman Plehn (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg; Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Universität Heidelberg)

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