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Comment on "An implementation of neural simulation-based inference for parameter estimation in ATLAS''

Methodology 2025-05-27 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The paper titled "An implementation of neural simulation-based inference for parameter estimation in ATLAS" by the ATLAS collaboration (arXiv:2412.01600v1 [hep-ex]) describes the implementation of neural simulation-based inference for a measurement analysis performed by ATLAS. The uncertainties in the analysis arising from the finiteness of the simulated datasets are estimated using a novel double-bootstrapping technique described in that work. In the present comment, it is claimed and demonstrated, using a toy example, that the double-bootstrapping technique does not actually capture the aforementioned uncertainties.

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@article{arxiv.2505.19156,
  title  = {Comment on "An implementation of neural simulation-based inference for parameter estimation in ATLAS''},
  author = {Prasanth Shyamsundar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.19156},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

11 pages, 0 figures; comment on arXiv:2412.01600v1

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