Week 8: Extending the Model¶

Topics¶

This week’s assignments will guide you through the following topics:

Graph neural networks

Reading¶

Please read the following:

Introduction and Section 1 of Ref. [20]
Ref. [21].
Slides: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gbdjmwmvqu1krd9/UMN_GNNsParticlePhysics_28Apr2021.pdf?dl=0

Tasks¶

Complete the following tasks:

Modify the graph neural network and re-evaluate the performance

Weekly Questions¶

Answer the following questions

Why is it challenging to apply convolutional neural networks or recurrent neural networks to high energy physics data?
What is an advantage of graph neural networks?

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