More ripples
There are many evidences of growing collaborations between High Energy Physics and Machine Learning, which this challenge helped to kick start. Only a few recent references to the Higgs ML challenge listed below:
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Science and Society Leveraging from Artificial Intelligence (in passing)
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Mentioned in Deep learning Joshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, Nature 521, 436–444 (28 May 2015)
After challenge ended
CERN and ATLAS
- ATLAS post, FB about winner announcement.
- ATLAS post about data set release on CERN Open Data Platform
- from Kyle Cranmer and again
Information from the participants
Kaggle forum
- winners announcement
- 1st place documentation and a post
- 2nd place documentation
- 3rd place documentation
- XGBoost (HEP meets ML award)
- general exchange about winning methodology
- Leaderboard analysis and here
- how physicists fared
Papers
- Primarily, the proceedings of the NIPS 2014 HepML workshop, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Workshops and Proceedings Vol 42
- Weighted Classification Cascades for Optimizing Discovery Significance in the HiggsML Challenge : arxiv 1409.2655
- Enhanced Higgs to tau+tau- searches with deep learning : arXiv 1410.3469
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 111801
- Consistent optimization of AMS by logistic loss minimization arXiv 1412.2106
- Model of automatic classification results ATLAS experiment (in russian, page 87)
- Marcin Wolter, Machine Learning: how to get more out of HEP data and the Higgs Boson Machine Learning Challenge, Proc. SPIE 9662, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2015, 96622I (September 11, 2015);
- K. Cranmer, Approximating likelihood ratios with calibrated discriminative classifiers
- C. Adam-Bourdarios, C. Nellist Involving communities through challenges and cooperation, HEP 2015, Vienna, Austria.
- G. Cowan et al, the Higgs Machine Learning Challenge, CHEP 2015, Okinawa, Japan.
- H. Voss Successes, Challenges and Future Outlook of Multivariate Analysis In HEP, ACAT 2014
Miscellaneous:
- talks at HEPML workshop at NIPS 2014 at Montréal plus videos
- CHEP 2015 talk by Glen
- also related, talks at another workshop at NIPS : Challenges in Machine Learning
- talk by number 1 and number 2 at Cambridge
- Faculty Student Comes 7th in Higgs Boson Machine Learning Challenge Stanislas Semenov
- document from UOM_CSE_T2 describing their methods
- post by Brian Potter
- slides by ychao (mostly in chinese)
- djabbz ipython
- Tommaso Dorigo
- Luboš Motl
- Kyle Cranmer
- ArbitraryY
- Paris-Saclay
- The economist NYU to Advance Deep Learning Research with Multi-GPU Cluster (in passing)
- colleagues at the LHCb experiment organise their own challenge
During challenge
CERN and ATLAS
- ATLAS first FB (many more since), first tweet (many more since), first G+
- ATLAS post with interview of two of the organizers
- CERN post and retweet of ATLAS FB and tweet
- many more tweets, some with #kaggle, some with #higgs, some with #higgsml (should you be twitting, we recommend #higgsml which is unique)
Media
- symmetry magazine
- phys.org
- wired
- Times of India (title is somewhat misleading, but the cartoon is nice!)
- imveurope (in passing)
Institutional
- INRIA (en français)
- Lettre informatique de l'IN2P3 (en français)
- Campus Paris-Saclay (en français)
- Université Paris Sud (en français)
- INS2I/CNRS (en français)
- IN2P3 (en français)
- LRI (en français)
- Cap Digital (en français)
- isgtw
- U Roma 3 (in Italian)
- Fermilab
Scientific paper (preprints) mentioning the Challenge:
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Accelerating Metropolis–Hastings algorithms: Delayed acceptance with prefetching, M. Banterle, C. Grazian & C.P. Robert http://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.2660.pdf
Blogosphere
- Tommaso Dorigo's blog (he is actually competing now), and again, and again, and again, and again
- Luboš Motl's blog (he is also competing), and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again
- calgorithms with nice visualisations
- seb on go-science
- techno-science.net
- baumgartel
- I Programmer
- Turing Machine blog
- bierlich.net blog
- no free hunch (in passing)
- facepunch
- Chris Bird
- DSGeek
- soylentnews
- patrick durusau
- physics.stackexchange.question
- particularphysics
- mediacircus
- software carpentry at INFN, Pisa
- google+ statistics and R post
- bernard marr (in passing while writing about kaggle)
- alex woodie (in passing while writing about kaggle)
- unocero (in spanish)
- tardigrados (in spanish)
- pianetauniversitario (in Italian)
- astroblog (in dutch)
- only perception (in chinese)
- wmaraci (in turkish)
- ciencia aberta (in portuguese)
- now-events.net/az (in azéri)
- Andreu Sancho
- nuit blanche (in passing)
- Xinh's Tech Blog
Fun with google search