  The GlueX forward calorimeter is an array of 2800 lead glass modules that was
constructed to detect photons produced in the decays of hadrons. A background
to this process originates from hadronic interactions in the calorimeter,
which, in some instances, can be difficult to distinguish from low energy
photon interactions. Machine learning techniques were applied to the
classification of particle interactions in the GlueX forward calorimeter. The
algorithms were trained on data using decays of the $\omega$ meson, which
contain both true photons and charged particles that interact with the
calorimeter. Algorithms were evaluated on efficiency, rate of false positives,
run time, and implementation complexity. An algorithm that utilizes a
multi-layer perceptron neural net was deployed in the GlueX software stack and
provides a signal efficiency of 85% with a background rejection of 60% for an
inclusive $\pi^0$ data sample for an intermediate quality constraint.
