Liquid argon time projection chambers are often used in neutrino physics and dark-matter searches because of their high spatial resolution.
Traditional machine learning methods such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) cannot operate directly on the sparse matrix representation of the detector data.
A machine learning model using a point set neural network is proposed, which greatly improves processing speed and accuracy over methods that instantiate the dense matrix.
Compared to competing methods, the proposed model improves classification and segmentation performance while significantly reducing time and memory requirements.