Cross-Domain Transfer with Particle Physics Foundation Models: From Jets to Neutrino Interactions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12364v1
• Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:53:22 GMT
• Title: Cross-Domain Transfer with Particle Physics Foundation Models: From Jets to Neutrino Interactions
• Abstract summary: Future AI-based studies in particle physics will likely start from a foundation model to accelerate training and enhance sensitivity.<n>We investigate whether the OmniLearned foundation model pre-trained on diverse high-$Q2$ simulated and real collisions can be effectively transferred to a few-GeV fixed-target neutrino experiment.
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• Abstract: Future AI-based studies in particle physics will likely start from a foundation model to accelerate training and enhance sensitivity. As a step towards a general-purpose foundation model for particle physics, we investigate whether the OmniLearned foundation model pre-trained on diverse high-$Q^2$ simulated and real $pp$ and $ep$ collisions can be effectively transferred to a few-GeV fixed-target neutrino experiment. We process MINERvA neutrino--nucleus scattering events and evaluate pre-trained models on two types of tasks: regression of available energy and binary classification of charged-current pion final states ($\mathrm{CC1π^{\pm}}$, $\mathrm{CCNπ^{\pm}}$, and $\mathrm{CC1π^{0}}$). Pre-trained OmniLearned models consistently outperform similarly sized models trained from scratch, achieving better overall performance at the same compute budget, as well as achieving better performance at the same number of training steps. These results suggest that particle-level foundation models acquire inductive biases that generalize across large differences in energy scale, detector technology, and underlying physics processes, pointing toward a paradigm of detector-agnostic inference in particle physics.

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