Published February 28, 2022
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Improving Variational Autoencoders for New Physics Detection at the LHC With Normalizing Flows
Abstract
We investigate how to improve new physics detection strategies exploiting variational autoencoders and normalizing flows for anomaly detection at the Large Hadron Collider. As a working example, we consider the DarkMachines challenge dataset. We show how different design choices (e.g., event representations, anomaly score definitions, network architectures) affect the result on specific benchmark new physics models. Once a baseline is established, we discuss how to improve the anomaly detection accuracy by exploiting normalizing flow layers in the latent space of the variational autoencoder.
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© 2022 Jawahar, Aarrestad, Chernyavskaya, Pierini, Wozniak, Ngadiuba, Duarte and Tsan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. Received: 28 October 2021; Accepted: 17 January 2022; Published: 28 February 2022. PJ, TA, MP, and KW were supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant Agreement No. 772369). JD was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics Early Career Research program under Award No. DE-SC0021187. ST was supported by the University of California San Diego Triton Research and Experiential Learning Scholars (TRELS) program. JN was supported by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics. Author Contributions. All authors in equal share developed the baseline VAE model. All authors in equal share took part in writing and editing the manuscript. PJ and MP developed the VAE + normalizing flow models. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version. Data Availability Statement. The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/Supplementary Material, further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author/s. The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fdata.2022.803685/full#supplementary-materialAttached Files
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- PMC8919050
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20220322-742433000
- 772369
- European Research Council (ERC)
- DE-SC0021187
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- University of California, San Diego
- DE-AC02-07CH11359
- Department of Energy (DOE)
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