Overcoming the issue of biased priors in unfolding methods that use generative machine learning

Speaker: 
Mathias Backes
Institution: 
Heidelberg University
Date: 
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Time: 
10:00 am
Location: 
Virtual
https://uci.zoom.us/j/97010614727

Abstract: The unfolding of detector effects is crucial for the comparison of data to theory predictions. While traditional methods are limited to representing the data in a low number of dimensions, machine learning has enabled new unfolding techniques while retaining the full dimensionality. Generative networks like invertible neural networks~(INN) enable a probabilistic unfolding, which map individual events to their corresponding unfolded probability distribution. The accuracy of such methods is however limited by how well simulated training samples model the actual data that is unfolded. We introduce the iterative conditional INN~(IcINN) for unfolding that adjusts for deviations between simulated training samples and data. The IcINN unfolding is first validated on toy data and then applied to pseudo-data for the pp→Zγγ process.

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