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We consider the high energy physics unfolding problem where the goal is to estimate the spectrum of elementary particles given observations distorted by the limited resolution of a particle detector. This important statistical inverse…

Applications · Statistics 2015-11-18 Mikael Kuusela , Victor M. Panaretos

Machine learning has enabled differential cross section measurements that are not discretized. Going beyond the traditional histogram-based paradigm, these unbinned unfolding methods are rapidly being integrated into experimental workflows.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-28 Ryan Milton , Vinicius Mikuni , Trevin Lee , Miguel Arratia , Tanvi Wamorkar , Benjamin Nachman

A method for correcting smearing effects using machine learning technique is presented. Compared to the standard deconvolution approaches in high energy particle physics, the method can use more than one reconstructed variable to predict…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-01-30 Bora Işıldak , Alper Hayreter , Aidan R. Wiederhold

High-energy physics experiments rely heavily on precise measurements of energy and momentum, yet face significant challenges due to detector limitations, calibration errors, and the intrinsic nature of particle interactions. Traditional…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-06-05 Chu-Cheng Pan , Xiang Dong , Yu-Chang Sun , Ao-Yan Cheng , Ao-Bo Wang , Yu-Xuan Hu , Hao Cai

Data unfolding is a common analysis technique used in HEP data analysis. Inspired by the deconvolution technique in the digital signal processing, a new unfolding technique based on the SVD technique and the well-known Wiener filter is…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-10-06 W. Tang , X. Li , X. Qian , H. Wei , C. Zhang

X-ray polarimetry has great scientific potential and new experiments, such as X-Calibur, PoGOLite, XIPE, and GEMS, will not only be orders of magnitude more sensitive than previous missions, but also provide the capability to measure…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-03 Fabian Kislat , Matthias Beilicke , Qingzhen Guo , Anna Zajczyk , Henric Krawczynski

Neutrino cross-section measurements are often presented as unfolded binned distributions in "true" variables. The ill-posedness of the unfolding problem can lead to results with strong anti-correlations and fluctuations between bins, which…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-28 Lukas Koch

Optimization-based solvers play a central role in a wide range of signal processing and communication tasks. However, their applicability in latency-sensitive systems is limited by the sequential nature of iterative methods and the high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Dvir Avrahami , Amit Milstein , Caroline Chaux , Tirza Routtenberg , Nir Shlezinger

Multivariate analyses play an important role in high energy physics. Such analyses often involve performing an unbinned maximum likelihood fit of a probability density function (p.d.f.) to the data. This paper explores a variety of unbinned…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-07-13 Mike Williams

Two maximum likelihood-based algorithms for unfolding or deconvolution are considered: the Richardson-Lucy method and the Data Unfolding method with Mean Integrated Square Error (MISE) optimization [10]. Unfolding is viewed as a procedure…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-11-18 Nikolay D. Gagunashvili

Physical models often contain unknown functions and relations. In order to gain more insights into the nature of physical processes, these unknown functions have to be identified or reconstructed. Mathematically, we can formulate this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Jan Bartsch , Ahmed A. Barakat , Simon Buchwald , Gabriele Ciaramella , Stefan Volkwein , Eva M. Weig

Deep unfolding is a method of growing popularity that fuses iterative optimization algorithms with tools from neural networks to efficiently solve a range of tasks in machine learning, signal and image processing, and communication systems.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-09 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Christoph Studer

The choice of unfolding method for a cross-section measurement is tightly coupled to the model dependence of the efficiency correction and the overall impact of cross-section modeling uncertainties in the analysis. A key issue is the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-07-14 Roger G. Huang , Andrew Cudd , Masaki Kawaue , Tatsuya Kikawa , Benjamin Nachman , Vinicius Mikuni , Callum Wilkinson

We consider abstract operator equations $Fu=y$, where $F$ is a compact linear operator between Hilbert spaces $U$ and $V$, which are function spaces on \emph{closed, finite dimensional Riemannian manifolds}, respectively. This setting is of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Nicolas Thorstensen , Otmar Scherzer

1. Parameter inference from distorted measurements is discussed. 2. Smeared measurements are unfolded without explicit regularization. The corresponding results are unbiased and permit to fit parameters and to apply quantitative…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-07-26 Guenter Zech

Recent innovations from machine learning allow for data unfolding, without binning and including correlations across many dimensions. We describe a set of known, upgraded, and new methods for ML-based unfolding. The performance of these…

During the inversion of discrete linear systems noise in data can be amplified and result in meaningless solutions. To combat this effect, characteristics of solutions that are considered desirable are mathematically implemented during…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Michael J. Byrne , Rosemary A. Renaut

Collider data must be corrected for detector effects ("unfolded") to be compared with many theoretical calculations and measurements from other experiments. Unfolding is traditionally done for individual, binned observables without…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-13 Anders Andreassen , Patrick T. Komiske , Eric M. Metodiev , Benjamin Nachman , Jesse Thaler

This document presents a self-contained treatment of regularized unfolding based on cubic B-spline representations and eigenmode filtering, following the original formulation by Blobel and direct translation of the original implementation…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-02 Vincent Alexander Croft

We consider the so-called unfolding problem in experimental high energy physics, where the goal is to estimate the true spectrum of elementary particles given observations distorted by measurement error due to the limited resolution of a…

Applications · Statistics 2014-02-03 Mikael Kuusela , Victor M. Panaretos