TREASURE: Tokenizing HEP Collider Data for AI Discovery

US/Eastern
Large Seminar Room (BNL)

Large Seminar Room

BNL

Liza Brost (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Viviana Cavaliere (Brookhaven National Lab)
Description

The TREASURE project (Tokenized Representations for Energy-frontier AI Searches via Understanding and REasoning) is a DOE HEP pilot initiative designed to bridge the gap between experimental physics and frontier AI research. The first workshop at BNL will focus on the technical frameworks required to curate and tokenize data from multiple collider experiments, enabling a new paradigm of cross-experimental discovery.

Key Focus Areas:

  • Multi-Level Tokenization: Converting complex particle physics events (jets, tracks, and calorimeter hits) into discrete tokens suitable for Transformer-based architectures.

  • AI-Readiness Protocols: Establishing standards for data curation and metadata that ensure high-fidelity training for Foundation Models.

  • Physics Benchmarking: Assessing model performance across critical tasks, including pattern recognition, Higgs physics, and new physics searches.

  • Collaborative Infrastructure: Building the "American Science Cloud" (AmSC) Intelligent Data Activities to support scalable AI research across the national lab complex.

 

BNL Event Code of Conduct

National Lab Contacts:

Paolo Calafiura (LBNL)
Viviana Cavaliere (BNL)
Walter Hopkins (ANL)
Michael Kagan (SLAC)
Kevin Pedro (FNAL)

 

Treasure playlist

 

Participants
    • 8:30 AM 9:00 AM
      Registration and Coffee 30m
    • 9:00 AM 10:45 AM
      AmSC Context & Integration: TREASURE and friends
      • 9:00 AM
        Welcome and TREASURE context 20m
        Speaker: Viviana Cavaliere (Brookhaven National Lab)
      • 9:25 AM
        Connections to Nuclear Physics 30m
      • 10:05 AM
        FM4NPP 30m
        Speaker: Yi Huang
    • 10:45 AM 11:00 AM
      Coffee Break 15m
    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      AmSC Context & Integration
      • 11:00 AM
        American Science Cloud 45m
        Speaker: Debbie Bard (LBNL)
      • 11:45 AM
        Data Broker and Standards (ModCon) 45m
        Speaker: Laura Biven (JLab)
    • 12:30 PM 1:30 PM
      Working Lunch 1h
    • 1:30 PM 3:20 PM
      Planning: Open Data
      • 1:30 PM
        LHC Open Data: Discussion on Status & Opportunities 30m
        Speaker: Beojan Stanislaus (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
      • 2:05 PM
        Planning for Low-Level Detector Data 30m
      • 2:40 PM
        Produce Work Plan on Open Data 30m

        (all)

    • 3:20 PM 3:35 PM
      Coffee Break 15m
    • 3:35 PM 5:35 PM
      Planning: Future Activities
      • 4:05 PM
        Where to store tokenized data? 30m
        Speaker: Scarlet Rachel Norberg (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
      • 4:35 PM
        Event-level tokenization discussion 30m
        Speaker: Viviana Cavaliere (Brookhaven National Lab)
      • 5:05 PM
        Discussion 30m
    • 6:30 PM 8:30 PM
      Dinner and golf at Top Golf 2h

      not hosted

    • 9:00 AM 10:45 AM
      Topical presentations
      • 9:00 AM
        CMS (jets) 20m
        Speaker: Oz Amram (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
      • 9:25 AM
        ATLAS (jets) 20m
        Speaker: Jeffrey Krupa (SLAC)
      • 9:50 AM
        Tracking needs 10m
        Speaker: Punit Sharma (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
      • 10:05 AM
        AI for operations 20m
        Speaker: Walter Hopkins (Argonne National Laboratory (US))
    • 10:45 AM 11:00 AM
      Coffee Break 15m
    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      Foundation Models and AI in Trigger
      • 11:00 AM
        The future of Foundation Models 30m
        Speaker: Michael Kagan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
      • 11:35 AM
        Ai in Trigger 30m
        Speaker: Jennifer Ngadiuba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
    • 12:30 PM 1:30 PM
      Working Lunch 1h
    • 1:30 PM 3:00 PM
      Working time
    • 3:00 PM 3:30 PM
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 3:30 PM 4:30 PM
      BNL Physics Colloquium "An Open Future for ATLAS, HEP, and Global Software and Computing" 1h

      Zach Marshall (LBNL) https://indico.bnl.gov/event/31454/

    • 4:30 PM 5:00 PM
      Working time
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Topical presentations
      • 9:00 AM
        Belle 2 10m
        Speaker: Riccardo Manfredi (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
      • 9:20 AM
        FCC-ee 10m
        Speaker: Andrea Sciandra (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
      • 9:35 AM
        Self supervised learning 10m
        Speaker: Ho Fung Tsoi (University of Pennsylvania (US))
      • 9:45 AM
        Compression 10m
        Speaker: Antonio Boveia (Ohio State University)
      • 10:00 AM
        Discussion 30m
    • 10:30 AM 10:45 AM
      Coffee Break 15m
    • 10:45 AM 12:00 PM
      Working time
    • 12:00 PM 1:00 PM
      Working Lunch 1h
    • 1:00 PM 2:30 PM
      Check in on Deliverables and Define Next Steps

      report from each work team

    • 2:30 PM 2:45 PM
      Workshop Concludes 15m