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We perform an updated fit to LHC Higgs data and LEP electroweak precision tests in the framework of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). We assume a generic structure of the SMEFT operators without imposing any flavour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Adam Falkowski , David Straub

Estimation of permutation entropy (PE) using Bayesian statistical methods is presented for systems where the ordinal pattern sampling follows an independent, multinomial distribution. It is demonstrated that the PE posterior distribution is…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-02-09 Douglas J. Little , Joshua P. Toomey , Deb M. Kane

Effective field theories, like the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), are defined by a chosen field content and a set of symmetries, up to a cut off scale $\Lambda$. Usually, in order to perform calculations, gauge independent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-06 Michael Trott

We present a novel strategy to uncover indirect signs of new physics in collider data using the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) framework, offering notably improved sensitivity compared to traditional global analyses. Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-25 Martin Hirsch , Luca Mantani , Veronica Sanz

We compile information from low-energy observables sensitive to flavor-conserving 4-fermion operators with two or four leptons. Our analysis includes data from e+e- colliders, neutrino scattering on electron or nucleon targets, atomic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-13 Adam Falkowski , Martín González-Alonso , Kin Mimouni

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) are a principled approach to modeling predictive uncertainties in deep learning, which are important in safety-critical applications. Since exact Bayesian inference over the weights in a BNN is intractable,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-02 Tim Z. Xiao , Weiyang Liu , Robert Bamler

The challenges posed by high-dimensional data and use of the simplex constraint are two major concerns in the empirical application of the synthetic control method (SCM) in econometric studies. To address both issues simultaneously, we…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-02 Yihong Xu , Quan Zhou

Probability density functions (PDFs) can be understood as continuous compositions by the theory of Bayes spaces. The origin of a Bayes space is determined by a given reference measure. This can be easily changed through the well-known chain…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-18 R. Talska , A. Menafoglio , K. Hron , J. J. Egozcue , J. Palarea-Albaladejo

This work is based on a bottom{-}up approach to the standard{-}model effective field theory (SMEFT), resulting in an equiprobable space of Wilson coefficients. The randomly generated Wilson coefficients of the SMEFT (in the Warsaw basis)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-08 Federico Camponovo , Giampiero Passarino

We uncover two precise interpretations of traditional electroweak fine-tuning (FT) measures that were historically missed. (i) a statistical interpretation: the traditional FT measure shows the change in plausibility of a model in which a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-27 Andrew Fowlie , Gonzalo Herrera

Randomized controlled clinical trials provide the gold standard for evidence generation in relation to the efficacy of a new treatment in medical research. Relevant information from previous studies may be desirable to incorporate in the…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-29 Lou E. Whitehead , James M. S. Wason , Oliver Sailer , Haiyan Zheng

Large-scale foundation models have demonstrated remarkable versatility across a wide range of downstream tasks. However, fully fine-tuning these models incurs prohibitive computational costs, motivating the development of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Chongjie Si , Xuankun Yang , Muqing Liu , Yadao Wang , Xiaokang Yang , Wenbo Su , Bo Zheng , Wei Shen

We construct a parametrization of the lepton energy spectrum in inclusive semileptonic decays of B mesons, based on the available experimental information: moments of the spectrum with cuts, their errors and their correlations, together…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-25 Joan Rojo

In this paper we study the use of Machine Learning techniques to exploit kinematic information in VH, the production of a Higgs in association with a massive vector boson. We parametrise the effect of new physics in terms of the SMEFT…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Felipe F. Freitas , Charanjit K. Khosa , Verónica Sanz

Compression of Neural Networks (NN) has become a highly studied topic in recent years. The main reason for this is the demand for industrial scale usage of NNs such as deploying them on mobile devices, storing them efficiently, transmitting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-08 Marco Federici , Karen Ullrich , Max Welling

We consider the problem of multivariate density deconvolution where the distribution of a random vector needs to be estimated from replicates contaminated with conditionally heteroscedastic measurement errors. We propose a conceptually…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-11-29 Arkaprava Roy , Abhra Sarkar

Sparsity is one of the key concepts that allows the recovery of signals that are subsampled at a rate significantly lower than required by the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem. Our proposed framework uses arbitrary multiscale transforms,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Jackie Ma , Maximilian März

We analyze combined Quasi-Monte Carlo quadrature and Finite Element approximations in Bayesian estimation of solutions to countably-parametric operator equations with holomorphic dependence on the parameters as considered in [Cl.~Schillings…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-25 Josef Dick , Robert N. Gantner , Quoc T. Le Gia , Christoph Schwab

Process-oriented theories of cognition must be evaluated against time-ordered observations. Here we present a representative example for data assimilation of the SWIFT model, a dynamical model of the control of spatial fixation position and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-10-23 Stefan A. Seelig , Maximilian M. Rabe , Noa Malem-Shinitski , Sarah Risse , Sebastian Reich , Ralf Engbert

In the Standard Model (SM), electroweak (EW) corrections become significant at high energies, particularly at the tera-electronvolt scale and beyond, due to the presence of Sudakov logarithms. At these energy scales, the Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-12 Hesham El Faham , Ken Mimasu , Davide Pagani , Claudio Severi , Eleni Vryonidou , Marco Zaro