Exploring new directions in enhancing the ACTS parameter optimization suite

[2608.14714] Exploring new directions in enhancing the ACTS parameter optimization suite Skip to main content Search Submit Donate Log in Search arXiv Press Enter to search · Advanced search Physics > Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability arXiv:2608.14714 (physics) [Submitted on 11 Aug 2026] Title: Exploring new directions in enhancing the ACTS parameter optimization suite Authors: Chance LaVoie , Qi Bin Lei , Rocky Bala Garg , Lauren Tompkins View a PDF of the paper titled Exploring new directions in enhancing the ACTS parameter optimization suite, by Chance LaVoie and 3 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: Track seeding strongly affects both the quality and computational cost of charged-particle reconstruction, yet its many configuration parameters are commonly tuned through expert intuition and repeated trial and error. ACTS reduces this burden with an Optuna Tree-structured Parzen Estimator auto-tuner, but expensive evaluations, a restricted search space, and a scalarized objective can limit evaluation efficiency, exclude promising configurations, and obscure performance trade-offs. We investigate whether Bayesian optimization can address these limitations using ACTS with the Open Data Detector (ODD). Under identical search ranges and a common 100-trial budget, we compare Expected Improvement and Upper Confidence Bound with TPE and random search on the existing eight-parameter problem, extend the best-performing Bayesian method to fifteen parameters, and apply Expected Hypervolume Improvement to optimize efficiency, fake rate, duplicate rate, and runtime without fixed scalar weights. Candidate configurations are evaluated through the full ACTS reconstruction chain and validated on disjoint held-out events. The Bayesian acquisition methods identify strong configurations earlier than TPE, and their advantage persists in held-out validation. Expanding the search further improves performance, while multi-objective optimization reveals competitive non-dominated solutions spanning distinct trade-offs. These results indicate that Bayesian optimization can strengthen ACTS auto-tuning through efficient evaluation, broader parameter searches, and post-hoc expert selection among non-dominated alternatives. Comments: Proceedings for ACAT 2025, 5 pages, 2 figures Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an) ; Machine Learning (cs.LG) Cite as: arXiv:2608.14714 [physics.data-an] (or arXiv:2608.14714v1 [physics.data-an] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.14714 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Lauren Tompkins [ view email ] [v1] Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:49:48 UTC (2,145 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Exploring new directions in enhancing the ACTS parameter optimization suite, by Chance LaVoie and 3 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: physics.data-an < prev | next > new | recent | 2026-08 Change to browse by: cs cs.LG physics References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... 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