GAIA: A General AI Assistant for Intelligent Accelerator Operations

Understand

Large-scale machines like particle accelerators are usually run by a team of experienced operators.

• In case of a particle accelerator, these operators possess suitable background knowledge on both accelerator physics and the technology comprising the machine.
• Due to the complexity of the machine, particular subsystems of the machine are taken care of by experts, who the operators can turn to.
• In this work the reasoning and action (ReAct) prompting paradigm is used to couple an open-weights large language model (LLM) with a high-level machine control system framework and other tools, e.g.