Learning Standard Model structure from LHC data with Riemannian flow matching
Abstract
In this work we demonstrate that a single transformer-based generative model can capture Standard Model structure spanning five decades of invariant mass, from the sub-GeV regime to the TeV continuum, a range that no single Monte Carlo sample covers. To achieve this we design \textsc{ShellFlow}, a Riemannian conditional flow matching model that, given the recorded event composition, generates each particle on its on-shell manifold. Its only physics priors are the on-shell condition and the invariant-mass formula. The model is trained on real collision events from the ATLAS Open Data 13~TeV release and told nothing else. From a single training run, the model learns to reproduce all of the following: intra-particle kinematics, the dilepton resonances (, , ) at their PDG positions, the leptonic Weinberg angle, the and top-quark masses, and inter-particle correlations that enter no training objective. A substantial fraction of the Standard Model is thus learnable directly from recorded collision data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2607.16144,
title = {Learning Standard Model structure from LHC data with Riemannian flow matching},
author = {Midori Kato and Kevin A. Urquía-Calderón and Inar Timiryasov and Oleg Ruchayskiy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.16144},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
35 pages, 25 figures