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Understanding Event-Generation Networks via Uncertainties

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-12-07 v2 Machine Learning

Abstract

Following the growing success of generative neural networks in LHC simulations, the crucial question is how to control the networks and assign uncertainties to their event output. We show how Bayesian normalizing flow or invertible networks capture uncertainties from the training and turn them into an uncertainty on the event weight. Fundamentally, the interplay between density and uncertainty estimates indicates that these networks learn functions in analogy to parameter fits rather than binned event counts.

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@article{arxiv.2104.04543,
  title  = {Understanding Event-Generation Networks via Uncertainties},
  author = {Marco Bellagente and Manuel Haußmann and Michel Luchmann and Tilman Plehn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.04543},
  year   = {2022}
}

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24 pages

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