This is an umbrella project to collect the experimental activities going on in the institute around using large language models to help particle physicists work. This includes coding, attending conferences, reading and comprehending papers, etc.
hep-data-llma plot agent that experiments with taking theadl-benchmark-indexquestions and hint files so that an LLM will generate and run the code. Complete with fairly complete evaluation metrics and ~20 open source and commercial models tested. Preceded by theatlas-plot-agentproject.test-wsl2-llma Windows-to-WSL2 harness for running LLMs in CLIs such as Codex (currently the only supported CLI), including templated batches, concurrent repetitions, continuations, and generated reports.- cmspilot a plot agent that uses RAG techniques to target very small LLMs. Fellow Project
- azure-light-rag RAG designed to work with very large corpora of text (e.g. all the European Union strategic update, or Snowmass documents). Uses RAG techniques plus entity extraction. Shows all the various problems that traditional RAG shows when working with very large amounts of data. Designed to run in the cloud, and be invoked as a tool from OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool.
- abstract-ranker - given a list of the user’s preferences, will rank abstracts submitted to a conference and generate a spreadsheet can be used to navigate a large conference like ICHEP or CHEP.
Team
- Gordon Watts
- David Lange
- Peter Elmer
- rrutaa
Presentations
- 13 Aug 2026 - "Running Headlong the Vortex: The Intersection of Experimental Particle Physics, LLMs, Agentic Workflows, and Collaborations", Gordon Watts, 2026 IAIFI Summer Workshop
- 22 Jun 2026 - "Agents and the future of HEP Analysis", Gordon Watts, Bunches of Agents: Mini talk series (part 1)
- 27 May 2026 - "From Query to Plot: Implementing a Tool-Based LLM Framework for ATLAS Analysis", Gordon Watts, CHEP 2026
- 27 May 2026 - "Beyond Code Generation: Building an LLM Ecosystem for Physics Analysis", Gordon Watts, CHEP 2026
- 5 May 2026 - "Using LLMs for research", Gordon Watts, ATLAS Lecture Series (internal)
- 20 Oct 2025 - "Vibe Plotting - Using LLM's to make physics analysis plots", Gordon Watts, AI for Scientific Writing and Coding Assistants
- 14 Oct 2025 - "AMG - Looking Forward", Gordon Watts, ATLAS Week