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:
Science and Society Leveraging from Artificial Intelligence (in passing)
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:
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