My current research focuses on using deep generative modeling to help build better sampling algorithms in lattice gauge theory. In particular, I’m interested in building gauge equivariant neural network architectures and using inductive priors to incorporate physical symmetries into machine learning models.
I received my PhD in Physics from the University of Iowa in 2019 and my thesis was on Learning Better Physics: A Machine Learning Approach to Lattice Gauge Theory . Prior to this, I completed two bachelors degrees (Engineering Physics and Applied Mathematics, 2015) from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My undergraduate dissertation was titled Energy Storage in Quantum Resonators and was supervised by Professor Alfred Hübler within the Center for Complex Systems Research at UIUC.
You can get a live view of some of my recent talks here
As a member of the Data Science Group at ALCF , I work on:
Recent Work
S. Foreman Exploratory Analysis of Climate Data with ClimRR
, Intro to HPC Bootcamp @ NERSC, August 7, 2023
M. Zvyagin et. al., GenSLMs: Genome-scale language models reveal SARS-CoV-2 evolutionary dynamics , Oct 2022
A.S. Kronfeld et al. Lattice QCD and Particle Physics , July 15, 2022
D. Boyda, S. Calí, S. Foreman , et al., Applications of ML to Lattice QFT arXiv:2202.05838 , Feb 2022
S. Foreman , X.Y. Jin, J.C. Osborn, LeapFrogLayers: Trainable Framework for Effective Sampling , Lattice, 2021
S. Foreman et al.HMC with Normalizing Flows , slides , Lattice, 2021
S. Foreman , X.Y. Jin, & J.C. Osborn, Deep Learning Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (+ poster) at SimDL Workshop @ ICLR , 2021
S. Foreman , X.Y. Jin, & J.C. Osborn, Machine Learning and Neural Networks for Field Theory SnowMass , 2020
S. Foreman et al. Examples of renormalization group transformations for image sets Physical Review E. , 2018
S. Foreman et al. RG inspired Machine Learning for lattice field theory arXiv:1710.02079 , 2017
S. Foreman et al. Large Energy Density in Three-Plate Nanocapacitors due to Coulomb Blockade J. Appl. Phys , 2018
Recent Talks
MLMC: Machine Learning for Monte Carlo , at Lattice 2023 , July 2023
Generative Modeling and Efficient Sampling , at PASC23 , July 2023
Efficient Sampling for Lattice Gauge Theory , at Deep Fridays @ U. Bologna , April 2023
Large Scale Training , at Introduction to AI-driven Science on Supercomputers: A Student Training Series , November 2022
Hyperparameter Management , at 2022 ALCF Simulation, Data, and Learning Workshop , October 2022
Statistical Learning , at ATPESC 2022 , August 2022 📕 accompanying notebook
Scientific Data Science: An Emerging Symbiosis , at Argonne National Laboratory, May 2022
Machine Learning in HEP , at UNC Greensboro, March 2022
Accelerated Sampling Methods for Lattice Gauge Theory , at BNL-HET& RBRC Joint Workshop “DWQ @ 25” , Dec 2021
Training Topological Samplers for Lattice Gauge Theory , ML4HEP, on and off the Lattice @ ECT* Trento, Sep 2021
l2hmc-qcd at the MIT Lattice Group Seminar , 2021
Deep Learning HMC for Improved Gauge Generation to the Machine Learning Techniques in Lattice QCD Workshop , 2021
Machine Learning for Lattice QCD at the University of Iowa, 2020
Machine learning inspired analysis of the Ising model transition to Lattice, 2018
Machine Learning Analysis of Ising Worms at Brookhaven National Laboratory , 2017
Appendix
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