10–15 Aug 2025
SAFE Credit Union Convention Center
America/Los_Angeles timezone

Advanced ML methods for beam tuning at FRIB

THXN01
14 Aug 2025, 09:00
30m
Parallel Session #2 (SAFE Credit Union Convention Center)

Parallel Session #2

SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

Invited Oral Presentation MC6 - Beam Instrumentation, Controls, AI/ML, and Operational Aspects Beam Instrumentation, Controls, AI/ML, and Operational Aspects (Invited)

Speaker

Kilean Hwang (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)

Description

Experiments with rare isotope beams at FRIB are highly time-constrained, making rapid setup and delivery of high-quality ion beams critical to maximizing scientific output. The Bayesian framework is particularly well-suited for this challenge, offering sample-efficient optimization, principled incorporation of prior knowledge, and uncertainty-aware inference. In particular, Bayesian Optimization (BO) has proven to be an efficient and general approach for the non-sequential, static nature of beam-tuning tasks. To further accelerate convergence, Prior-Mean-Assisted Bayesian Optimization (pmBO) was developed, enabling rapid adaptation from prior belief to real-time machine conditions with minimal computational overhead. In parallel, a virtual diagnostic for the beam’s transverse quadrupolar moment (BPM-Q) has been developed to provide non-invasive, fast measurements of beam envelope information. To optimize the reconstruction of Courant-Snyder parameters from BPM-Q data, Bayesian Active Learning (BAL), employing a differentiable beam envelope simulator as a surrogate model, has been implemented. Together, these developments illustrate the power of Bayesian methods in achieving faster, more accurate beam-tuning.

Funding Agency

DE-SC0024707, DE-SC0023633

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Author

Kilean Hwang (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)

Co-authors

Alexander Plastun (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams) Jinyu Wan (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams) Kei Fukushima (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams) Peter Ostroumov (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams) Qiang Zhao (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams) Tomofumi Maruta (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams) Tong Zhang (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)

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