Selected Publications

Listed below are selected publications to which I was a primary author. I also co-authored papers by CMS and ATLAS as a collaboration member. For the complete list see INSPIRE. Preprints at arXiv.

  1. “jBOT: Learning Enhanced Jet Representations via Self-Distilling Pretraining Without Labels”,
    H.F. Tsoi, D. Rankin,
    manuscript in preparation.
  2. “Anomaly Detection in the CMS Level-1 Trigger in Run 3”,
    CMS Collaboration,
    manuscript in preparation.
  3. “Performance of the ATLAS Tau Trigger in Run 3”,
    ATLAS Collaboration,
    manuscript in preparation.
  4. “SparsePixels: Efficient Convolution for Sparse Data on FPGAs”,
    H.F. Tsoi, D. Rankin, V. Loncar, P. Harris,
    submitted to ACM Trans.Reconf.Tech.Syst. [arXiv:2512.06208].
  5. “hls4ml: A Flexible, Open-Source Platform for Deep Learning Acceleration on Reconfigurable Hardware”,
    J.F. Schulte et al.,
    submitted to ACM Trans.Reconf.Tech.Syst. [arXiv:2512.01463].
  6. “SymbolFit: Automatic Parametric Modeling with Symbolic Regression”,
    H.F. Tsoi, D. Rankin, C. Caillol, M. Cranmer, S. Dasu, J. Duarte, P. Harris, E. Lipeles, V. Loncar,
    Comput Softw Big Sci 9, 12 (2025) [arXiv:2411.09851].
  7. “SymbolNet: Neural Symbolic Regression with Adaptive Dynamic Pruning for Compression”,
    H.F. Tsoi, V. Loncar, S. Dasu, P. Harris,
    Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 6, 015021 (2025) [arXiv:2401.09949].
  8. “Search for Exotic Decays of the Higgs Boson to a Pair of Pseudoscalars in the \(\mu\mu\)bb and \(\tau\tau\)bb Final States”,
    CMS Collaboration,
    Eur. Phys. J. C 84, 493 (2024) [arXiv:2402.13358].
  9. “Symbolic Regression on FPGAs for Fast Machine Learning Inference”,
    H.F. Tsoi, A.A. Pol, V. Loncar, E. Govorkova, M. Cranmer, S. Dasu, P. Elmer, P. Harris, I. Ojalvo, M. Pierini,
    EPJ Web of Conferences 295, 09036 (2024) [arXiv:2305.04099].
  10. “The Phase-2 Upgrade of the CMS Data Acquisition and High Level Trigger”,
    CMS Collaboration,
    CMS Technical Design Report (2021), CERN-LHCC-2021-007, CMS-TDR-022.