Particle Transformer (ParT)

A transformer that tags jets by reading the particles inside them, released with the JetClass dataset it was trained on.

Made by
Huilin Qu, Congqiao Li, Sitian Qian
Field
Collider physics
Learns from
JetClass, 100 million simulated jets of 10 types
Size
2.1M parameters
Open weights
Not stated, MIT (code)
First public
Feb 2022

How it relates to Flare

Not a foundation model itself, but JetClass became the standard pretraining set for the jet models that followed, and CMS uses descendants of this design in its taggers.

Every figure here is from the source above, checked 17 October 2026. Something changed? Email [email protected].

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