arXiv Machine Learning

Quantitative Understanding of PDF Fits and their Uncertainties

arXiv:2512. 24116v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) play a central role in describing experimental data at colliders and provide insight into the structure of nucleons.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

Mind the Gap: Navigating Inference with Optimal Transport Maps

The paper introduces a model calibration method using optimal transport to address discrepancies between simulation and experimental data in high-dimensional machine learning applications. Applied to jet tagging in particle physics, the technique calibrates a 128‑dimensional latent representation from a general‑purpose classifier, ensuring downstream derived quantities are properly calibrated. This enables more reliable use of foundation models for jet flavor analysis in LHC experiments and offers a general framework for correcting high‑dimensional simulations across scientific fields.

By Malte Algren, Tobias Golling, Francesco Armando Di Bello, Christopher Pollard
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 8

ScatterPrism: convergence for generative simulation and inverse problems in particle and nuclear physics

arXiv:2604. 01313v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-fidelity simulations and complex inverse problems, such as detector modeling and unfolding, are computationally intensive bottlenecks across subatomic physics, yet essential for accurate physical interpretation.

By Zeyu Xia, Tyler Kim, Trevor Reed, Judy Fox, Geoffrey Fox, Adam Szczepaniak
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

Likelihood-Based Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in CMS Dijet Events

arXiv:2609.06686v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present an unsupervised search for anomalous dijet events in proton--proton collision data using neural spline flow density estimation. A normaliz...

By Bhavishya Chebrolu (VIT-AP University, Amaravati, India), Hitesh Rasineni (VIT-AP University, Amaravati, India), Prajwal Aaryan Immadi (VIT-AP University, Amaravati, India)
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Factorizable Normalizing Flows for parameter-dependent density morphing

arXiv:2606. 30489v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Normalizing Flows excel at modeling a single fixed density, yet many problems across the sciences, such as high energy physics, instead require modeling how that density deforms as a function of continuous parameters: the strength of a physical effect, a calibration constant, or a source of systematic uncertainty.

By Davide Valsecchi, Mauro Doneg\`a, Rainer Wallny
arXiv Statistics ML
Sep 14

PDE-constrained inverse problems at the $\sqrt{n}$ rate via debiased physics-informed neural networks

The paper introduces a two‑step debiased estimation method for PDE‑constrained inverse problems where the PDE solution is approximated by Physics‑Informed Neural Networks (PINNs). By combining neural‑network‑based nonparametric estimation with an influence‑function bias correction, the authors achieve a √{n}-consistent, asymptotically normal estimator without undersmoothing the neural network. The approach is extended to Bayesian inference, yielding a posterior that contracts at the √{n}-rate with asymptotic covariance matching the frequentist estimator, and the analysis also provides near‑minimax rates for estimating nonparametric regression functions and their derivatives in Sobolev spaces.

By Yves Atchade, Debarghya Mukherjee