Leveraging Industrial Foundation Models at the Edge of Particle Physics Detectors via Distillation Learning and Hardware Co-design

📅 2026-09-20
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研究通过蒸馏学习和硬件协同设计,将工业基础模型应用于粒子物理探测器边缘,提高数据采集系统性能。
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Data acquisition (DAQ) systems at future particle physics experiments stand to benefit from the extremes of AI/ML development: large-scale foundation models can enhance the performance of feature extraction algorithms, and small-scale on-detector deployments can enable real-time intelligent data handling. This work provides the first fine-tuning of an industrial foundation model for particle physics DAQ. Starting from the backbone of Google Research's TimesFM (Time Series Foundation Model), we demonstrate fine-tuning on real-time regression tasks for drift chamber trackers and dual-readout calorimeters. Furthermore, the fine-tuned TimesFM model is distilled into a student and co-designed with FPGA implementation to enable these models to run in real-time at future colliders. The fine-tuned distillations meet or exceed the performance of previously published AI/ML solutions for each task. Further, the pipeline of distillation and model compression from TimesFM is generic and can be easily adapted to a variety of 1D waveform tasks across domains.
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data acquisition
foundation model
particle physics
real-time processing
feature extraction
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distillation learning
hardware co-design
fine-tuning
real-time processing
foundation models
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