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.

2026
  1. jBOT: Semantic Jet Representation Clustering Emerges from Self-Distillation
    Ho Fung Tsoi, Dylan Rankin
    accepted to SciPost Phys. [arXiv:2601.11719]
  2. Machine Can Automatically Discover Parametric Functions to Model HEP Data
    Ho Fung Tsoi, Dylan Rankin, Cecile Caillol, Miles Cranmer, Sridhara Dasu, Javier Duarte, Philip Harris, Elliot Lipeles
    Proceedings of ICHEP 2026 [arXiv:2607.19750]
  3. SparsePixels++: Scalable Sparse Convolution on FPGAs
    Ho Fung Tsoi, Dylan Rankin, Vladimir Loncar, Philip Harris
    manuscript in preparation
  4. SpikePID: Neuromorphic Cluster Counting in Future Drift Chambers
    Ho Fung Tsoi, Kam Wai Lai,, Dylan Rankin
    manuscript in preparation
  5. Anomaly Detection in the CMS Level-1 Trigger in Run 3
    CMS Collaboration
    manuscript in preparation
  6. Performance of the ATLAS Tau Trigger in Run 3
    ATLAS Collaboration
    manuscript in preparation
2025
  1. SparsePixels: Efficient Convolution for Sparse Data on FPGAs
    Ho Fung Tsoi, Dylan Rankin, Vladimir Loncar, Philip Harris
    submitted to Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. [arXiv:2512.06208]
  2. hls4ml: A Flexible, Open-Source Platform for Deep Learning Acceleration on Reconfigurable Hardware
    Jan-Frederik Schulte et al.
    ACM Trans. Reconf. Tech. Syst. 19, 2 (2026) [arXiv:2512.01463]
2024
  1. SymbolFit: Automatic Parametric Modeling with Symbolic Regression
    Ho Fung Tsoi, Dylan Rankin, Cecile Caillol, Miles Cranmer, Sridhara Dasu, Javier Duarte, Philip Harris, Elliot Lipeles, Vladimir Loncar
    Comput Softw Big Sci 9, 12 (2025) [arXiv:2411.09851]
  2. SymbolNet: Neural Symbolic Regression with Adaptive Dynamic Pruning for Compression
    Ho Fung Tsoi, Vladimir Loncar, Sridhara Dasu, Philip Harris
    Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 6, 015021 (2025) [arXiv:2401.09949]
  3. 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]
2023
  1. Symbolic Regression on FPGAs for Fast Machine Learning Inference
    Ho Fung Tsoi, Adrian Alan Pol, Vladimir Loncar, Ekaterina Govorkova, Miles Cranmer, Sridhara Dasu, Peter Elmer, Philip Harris, Isobel Ojalvo, Maurizio Pierini
    EPJ Web of Conferences 295, 09036 (2024) [arXiv:2305.04099]
2021
  1. 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