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arxiv: 2604.07037 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-08 · ✦ hep-ex · cs.CV

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Towards foundation-style models for energy-frontier heterogeneous neutrino detectors via self-supervised pre-training

Sa\'ul Alonso-Monsalve , Fabio Cufino , Umut Kose , Anna Mascellani , Andr\'e Rubbia
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Self-supervised pre-training on sparse vision transformers learns reusable representations from heterogeneous neutrino detector data that improve flavour identification, momentum regression, and vertex reconstruction while reducing labelled

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper develops a sparse ViT framework that learns reusable representations from multimodal data in high-energy neutrino detectors through self-supervised pre-training. It combines masked autoencoder reconstruction with relational voxel-level objectives to capture hierarchies and particle identities, then fine-tunes the shared encoder on tasks including neutrino flavour classification, charm-quark tagging, momentum regression, and vertex reconstruction. On simulated FASERCal events the pre-trained models outperform those trained from scratch, with relational objectives adding gains in complex topologies, and roughly one thousand labelled events suffice for the pre-trained encoder to match the flavour performance of a scratch model trained on ten times more data. The representations transfer to other public detector benchmarks across technologies and energy scales. A sympathetic reader would care because this offers a practical route to reusable encoders when labelled data remain scarce at the energy frontier.

Core claim

The central claim is that self-supervised pre-training of a sparse ViT encoder on heterogeneous detector data, using masked reconstruction together with relational voxel objectives for hierarchy, ghost, and particle identification, produces representations that, after joint fine-tuning, consistently outperform randomly initialised models on neutrino flavour and charm identification, momentum regression, and vertex reconstruction; the same pre-trained encoder matches the flavour-classification performance of a scratch-trained model when given only about one-tenth the labelled events, and the learned features transfer effectively to benchmarks with different detector technologies.

What carries the argument

Sparse ViT encoder pre-trained with masked autoencoder reconstruction plus relational voxel-level objectives that encode hierarchy, ghost, and particle identification before joint fine-tuning across classification and regression heads.

If this is right

  • Pre-training improves neutrino flavour and charm-quark identification, momentum regression, and vertex reconstruction over training from scratch.
  • Relational voxel objectives produce additional gains precisely in the topologically most complex channels.
  • Roughly one thousand labelled events allow the pre-trained encoder to reach the flavour-classification accuracy of a randomly initialised model trained on an order of magnitude more data.
  • The learned representations transfer to publicly available benchmarks that use different detector technologies and energy scales.
  • Detector-subsystem ablations recover channel-dependent roles for the heterogeneous inputs that align with physical expectations.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the simulation-to-real gap proves small, the same pre-training recipe could be applied to other proposed energy-frontier neutrino detectors to reduce labelling costs.
  • The more structured latent space observed after pre-training may allow physicists to inspect which detector subsystems drive each downstream decision.
  • Success on multimodal sparse data suggests the approach could be tested on hybrid detectors that combine tracking, calorimetry, and timing in a single volume.

Load-bearing premise

Performance gains measured on simulated FASERCal events will generalise to real experimental data without large domain shift, and the relational objectives will reflect physically meaningful structure rather than simulation-specific patterns.

What would settle it

Train the same pre-trained encoder on real data collected from a heterogeneous neutrino detector such as FASERCal and measure whether its flavour-classification accuracy with one thousand labelled events still equals or exceeds a scratch-trained model that uses ten thousand labelled real events.

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Accelerator-based neutrino physics is entering an energy-frontier regime in which interactions reach the TeV scale and produce exceptionally dense, overlapping detector signatures. In this regime, event interpretation becomes impractical for conventional reconstruction approaches, particularly when labelled data are scarce and the analysis spans diverse downstream objectives. We present a sparse ViT framework for learning reusable representations from heterogeneous detector data. Self-supervised pre-training combines masked autoencoder reconstruction with relational voxel-level objectives for hierarchy, ghost and particle identification, and the resulting shared encoder is then jointly fine-tuned across classification and regression tasks. Evaluated on simulated events from the proposed FASERCal concept at the LHC, we find that pre-training consistently improves neutrino flavour and charm-quark identification, momentum regression, and vertex reconstruction over training from scratch, with the addition of relational objectives yielding further gains in the most topologically complex channels. Interpretability analyses further show that pre-training yields a more structured latent space, while detector-subsystem ablations recover physically plausible channel-dependent roles for the heterogeneous inputs. A data-efficiency study shows that, with roughly $10^3$ labelled events, the pre-trained encoder already matches the flavour-classification performance of a randomly initialised model trained on an order of magnitude more data. The learned representations also transfer effectively to publicly available benchmarks spanning different detector technologies and energy scales, matching or exceeding published baselines. These results support self-supervised pre-training on multimodal detector data as a scalable route towards reusable representations for neutrino and particle-detector analysis.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces a sparse Vision Transformer (ViT) architecture for self-supervised pre-training on heterogeneous neutrino detector data. Pre-training combines masked autoencoder reconstruction with relational voxel-level objectives (hierarchy, ghost/particle identification). The shared encoder is fine-tuned jointly on classification and regression tasks. On simulated FASERCal events at the LHC, pre-training yields consistent gains in neutrino flavour identification, charm-quark tagging, momentum regression, and vertex reconstruction relative to training from scratch; relational objectives add further benefit in topologically complex channels. A data-efficiency experiment shows that a pre-trained model reaches the flavour-classification performance of a randomly initialised model trained on an order of magnitude more labelled events (roughly 10^3 vs. 10^4 events). The representations also transfer to other public simulated benchmarks spanning different detector technologies and energy scales. Interpretability analyses and detector-subsystem ablations are presented to support the physical plausibility of the learned features.

Significance. If the empirical claims hold under more stringent controls, the work would be significant for energy-frontier neutrino experiments where labelled data are scarce and events are dense and overlapping. The demonstration of data-efficient transfer across tasks and detector technologies, together with the use of relational objectives that explicitly target topological structure, points toward reusable foundation-style encoders for multimodal particle-detector data. The interpretability and ablation results further strengthen the case that the learned representations capture detector-relevant hierarchies rather than simulation artifacts.

major comments (3)
  1. [data-efficiency study] Data-efficiency study (abstract and associated results section): the reported 10× reduction in labelled events required to match scratch-model flavour-classification performance is obtained entirely within the same FASERCal simulation sample. Because both pre-training and fine-tuning draw from identical event distributions, the scaling advantage could shrink or disappear under modest domain shifts (different neutrino energy spectrum, altered charm fragmentation, or added realistic noise). A concrete test—e.g., fine-tuning on events generated with varied beam energies or with an independent simulation package—would be required to substantiate the claim for real experimental data.
  2. [results on flavour identification, momentum regression, vertex reconstruction] Baseline and statistical reporting (results sections on flavour identification, momentum regression, and vertex reconstruction): the manuscript states consistent improvements but does not provide (i) the exact architecture and hyper-parameters of the “training from scratch” baselines, (ii) the number of independent training runs or statistical error bars on the reported metrics, or (iii) the precise train/validation/test splits used for the 10^3-event regime. These omissions make it impossible to judge whether the observed gains exceed run-to-run variance or arise from differences in optimisation schedule.
  3. [transfer experiments] Transfer experiments (final results paragraph): the claim that representations “transfer effectively to publicly available benchmarks spanning different detector technologies” is supported only by other simulated datasets. While this is a useful internal consistency check, it does not address the domain-shift concern raised above; the paper should clarify whether any of the transfer benchmarks incorporate independent modelling assumptions or real data.
minor comments (2)
  1. [methods] Notation: the precise definition of the relational loss weights and the masking ratio schedule should be stated explicitly in the methods section rather than left to supplementary material.
  2. [interpretability analyses] Figure clarity: several latent-space visualisation panels would benefit from explicit axis labels indicating the physical quantities being projected (e.g., energy, angle, or particle type).

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive report. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript accordingly to improve clarity, reproducibility, and discussion of limitations.

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  1. Referee: [data-efficiency study] Data-efficiency study (abstract and associated results section): the reported 10× reduction in labelled events required to match scratch-model flavour-classification performance is obtained entirely within the same FASERCal simulation sample. Because both pre-training and fine-tuning draw from identical event distributions, the scaling advantage could shrink or disappear under modest domain shifts (different neutrino energy spectrum, altered charm fragmentation, or added realistic noise). A concrete test—e.g., fine-tuning on events generated with varied beam energies or with an independent simulation package—would be required to substantiate the claim for real experimental data.

    Authors: We agree that the data-efficiency results are obtained within a single simulated distribution. This is the standard controlled setting for such studies in particle physics, where the primary goal is to quantify sample-efficiency gains from pre-training before addressing real-data domain shifts. In the revised manuscript we will add an explicit limitations paragraph in the discussion section noting that the reported factor-of-10 improvement is specific to the FASERCal simulation and may be affected by changes in energy spectrum, fragmentation, or noise. While we cannot perform new cross-simulator experiments in the current revision cycle, the relational objectives are deliberately designed to capture topology rather than simulation-specific features, providing a plausible basis for broader applicability. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [results on flavour identification, momentum regression, vertex reconstruction] Baseline and statistical reporting (results sections on flavour identification, momentum regression, and vertex reconstruction): the manuscript states consistent improvements but does not provide (i) the exact architecture and hyper-parameters of the “training from scratch” baselines, (ii) the number of independent training runs or statistical error bars on the reported metrics, or (iii) the precise train/validation/test splits used for the 10^3-event regime. These omissions make it impossible to judge whether the observed gains exceed run-to-run variance or arise from differences in optimisation schedule.

    Authors: We acknowledge these omissions and will correct them in the revised manuscript. We will add: (i) the precise architecture and hyper-parameter settings (including optimizer, learning-rate schedule, and batch size) for all training-from-scratch baselines; (ii) results from five independent random seeds with mean and standard-error bars on every metric; and (iii) the exact train/validation/test splits, including the random-subsampling procedure used to create the 10^3-event fine-tuning sets. These additions will allow direct assessment of statistical significance and reproducibility. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [transfer experiments] Transfer experiments (final results paragraph): the claim that representations “transfer effectively to publicly available benchmarks spanning different detector technologies” is supported only by other simulated datasets. While this is a useful internal consistency check, it does not address the domain-shift concern raised above; the paper should clarify whether any of the transfer benchmarks incorporate independent modelling assumptions or real data.

    Authors: The transfer benchmarks are drawn from publicly released simulated datasets (MINERvA and NOvA-style geometries) that employ independent Monte Carlo generators, different detector response models, and distinct energy ranges. We will revise the text to state explicitly that all transfer results remain within simulation and that no real data are used. This clarifies the scope of the generalization claim while preserving the value of the cross-technology consistency test. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: purely empirical ML performance measurements on simulated data

full rationale

The paper presents results from self-supervised pre-training and fine-tuning of a sparse ViT on simulated FASERCal events, reporting measured improvements in classification, regression, and data-efficiency metrics against explicit scratch-training baselines. All load-bearing claims (e.g., pre-training matching 10x more data with ~10^3 labels, relational objectives adding gains in complex channels) are direct empirical observations on held-out simulation samples, with no derivations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, self-citations invoked as uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes smuggled in. The work is self-contained against external benchmarks via reported transfer performance; no step reduces by construction to its own inputs.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the fidelity of simulated detector responses to real physics and on the assumption that self-supervised objectives extract task-relevant features without introducing simulation artifacts. Free parameters are standard ML hyperparameters.

free parameters (1)
  • masking ratio and relational objective weights
    Chosen during pre-training to balance reconstruction and relational tasks; typical in self-supervised learning setups.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Simulated events from the FASERCal concept accurately model real detector responses and physics processes at TeV scales
    All quantitative results are obtained on simulated data; the paper assumes this simulation is sufficiently realistic for the claimed improvements to be meaningful.

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