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Recent work has demonstrated that graph neural networks (GNNs) trained for charged particle tracking can match the performance of traditional algorithms while improving scalability. Most approaches are based on the edge classification paradigm, wherein tracker hits are connected by edges, and a GNN is trained to prune edges, resulting in a collection of connected components representing tracks. These connected components are usually collected by a clustering algorithm and the resulting hit clusters are passed to downstream modules that may assess track quality or fit track parameters.
In this work, we consider an alternative approach based on object condensation (OC), a multi-objective learning framework designed to cluster points belonging to an arbitrary number of objects, in this context tracks, and regress the properties of each object. We demonstrate that object condensation shows promising results in various simplified scenarios and present a modular and extensible open-source implementation that allows us to efficiently train and evaluate the performance of various OC architectures and related approaches.
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