Knowledge Distillation

When Less is More: Towards Lightweight and Distilled Graph Neural Networks for Efficient Particle Reconstruction in LHCb's Next-Generation Calorimeter

Attention-enhanced node-centric GarNet GNNs (UzzieNet) with 8× faster inference, plus knowledge distillation down to ~95% smaller models that beat the teacher on energy resolution, for the PicoCal of LHCb Upgrade II.

May 25, 2026

When Less is More: Lightweight and Distilled GNNs for Efficient Particle Reconstruction

Poster on optimizing graph neural networks and knowledge distillation for efficient particle reconstruction in LHCb's next-generation calorimeter.

Sep 1, 2025