How Far Can Foundation Models Be Distilled for Efficient Jet Tagging?

arXiv:2610.29439 · cs.LG, hep-ex, hep-ph, physics.data-an · Submitted 2026-10-21 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, hep-ex, hep-ph, physics.data-an

Submitted: 2026-10-21

Updated: 2026-10-21

Comments: 34 pages, 16 figures, 23 tables. Code and model weights: https://github.com/JayAgarwal25/distilling-jet-taggers

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

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