Conveners
Tutorials: Transformer Tutorial
- Ilya Agapov (DESY)
- Hirokazu Maesaka (RIKEN SPring-8 Center)
- Anton Lu (Technical University of Vienna (AT))
Tutorials: Model Up-Keep with Continual Learning Tutorial
- Hirokazu Maesaka (RIKEN SPring-8 Center)
- Kishansingh Rajput (Jefferson Lab)
- Ilya Agapov (DESY)
Tutorials: Applying Reinforcement Learning to Particle Accelerators Talk & Tutorial
- Hirokazu Maesaka (RIKEN SPring-8 Center)
- Ilya Agapov (DESY)
- Andrea Santamaria Garcia (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
- Jan Kaiser (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
- Chenran Xu (Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie (KIT))
The Transformer is a deep learning architecture introduced in 2017, that has since then taken over the natural language processing field and has recently gained public popularity thanks to large language models like ChatGPT. The self-attention mechanism introduced with the Transformer allows it to learn complex patterns and relationships in data without explicitly using recurrent mechanisms...
Particle accelerators are dynamic machines and pose a major challenge for scientists at the intersection of nuclear physics and machine learning (ML) with evolving operational conditions and data drift. Traditional ML models trained on historical data can fail to provide good predictions on future data. They fall short in adapting to dynamic distributions. This tutorial introduces the particle...
Online tuning of particle accelerators is a complex optimisation problem that continues to require manual intervention by experienced human operators. Autonomous tuning is a rapidly expanding field of research, where learning-based methods like Bayesian optimisation (BO) hold great promise in improving plant performance and reducing tuning times. At the same time, Reinforcement Learning (RL)...
Reinforcement learning is a form of machine learning in which intelligent agents learn to solve complex problems by gaining experience. In current research, agents trained with reinforcement learning perform better than their human counterparts on problems that have historically been difficult for machines to solve. Particle accelerators are among the most advanced high-tech machines in the...
