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Improved Neural Network Monte Carlo Simulation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-02-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment Computational Physics Machine Learning

Abstract

The algorithm for Monte Carlo simulation of parton-level events based on an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) proposed in arXiv:1810.11509 is used to perform a simulation of H4H\to 4\ell decay. Improvements in the training algorithm have been implemented to avoid numerical instabilities. The integrated decay width evaluated by the ANN is within 0.7% of the true value and unweighting efficiency of 26% is reached. While the ANN is not automatically bijective between input and output spaces, which can lead to issues with simulation quality, we argue that the training procedure naturally prefers bijective maps, and demonstrate that the trained ANN is bijective to a very good approximation.

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@article{arxiv.2009.07819,
  title  = {Improved Neural Network Monte Carlo Simulation},
  author = {I-Kai Chen and Matthew D. Klimek and Maxim Perelstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.07819},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

19 pages, 11 figures; v2: minor clarifications, results unchanged, 21 pages

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