One pretrained backbone for collider events: 500 million simulated collisions, 7.6σ on CMS open data
Collider analyses have trained a separate model per task; EVENET instead represents each collision as an unordered particle cloud and pretrains one backbone on 500 million simulated events with self-supervised plus physics-informed objectives, then adapts it through interchangeable task heads. In an anti-isolated ϒ→μ+μ− search on CMS Open Data, the fully pretrained variant reaches a median local significance of 7.6σ after calibration, above the published 6.4σ, and across a heavy-resonance mass grid its maximum SIC averages about 50% above training from scratch.