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Recent inroads in Computer Vision (CV), enabled by Machine Learning (ML), have motivated a new approach to the analysis of particle imaging detector data. Unlike previous efforts which tackled isolated CV tasks, this paper introduces an end-to-end, ML-based data reconstruction chain for Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs), the state-of-the-art in precision imaging at the intensity frontier of neutrino physics. The chain is a multi-task network cascade which combines voxel-level feature extraction using Sparse Convolutional Neural Networks and particle superstructure formation using Graph Neural Networks. Each individual algorithm incorporates physics-informed inductive biases, while their collective hierarchy enforces a causal relashionship between them. The output is a comprehensive description of an event that may be used for high-level physics inference. The chain is end-to-end optimizable, eliminating the need for time-intensive manual software adjustments. The ICARUS detector, part of the short baseline neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab, is the largest LArTPC built and operated to date and is used to assess the performance of this reconstruction chain in a realistic setting.
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