How to GAN LHC events

A Butter, T Plehn, R Winterhalder - SciPost Physics, 2019 - scipost.org
Event generation for the LHC can be supplemented by generative adversarial networks,
which generate physical events and avoid highly inefficient event unweighting. For top pair …

Invertible networks or partons to detector and back again

M Bellagente, A Butter, G Kasieczka, T Plehn… - SciPost Physics, 2020 - scipost.org
For simulations where the forward and the inverse directions have a physics meaning,
invertible neural networks are especially useful. A conditional INN can invert a detector …

How to GAN away detector effects

M Bellagente, A Butter, G Kasieczka, T Plehn… - SciPost Physics, 2020 - scipost.org
LHC analyses directly comparing data and simulated events bear the danger of using first-
principle predictions only as a black-box part of event simulation. We show how simulations …

GANplifying event samples

A Butter, S Diefenbacher, G Kasieczka, B Nachman… - SciPost Physics, 2021 - scipost.org
A critical question concerning generative networks applied to event generation in particle
physics is if the generated events add statistical precision beyond the training sample. We …

Phase space sampling and inference from weighted events with autoregressive flows

B Stienen, R Verheyen - SciPost Physics, 2021 - scipost.org
We explore the use of autoregressive flows, a type of generative model with tractable
likelihood, as a means of efficient generation of physical particle collider events. The usual …

Exploring phase space with neural importance sampling

E Bothmann, T Janßen, M Knobbe, T Schmale… - SciPost Physics, 2020 - scipost.org
We present a novel approach for the integration of scattering cross sections and the
generation of partonic event samples in high-energy physics. We propose an importance …

Improved neural network Monte Carlo simulation

IK Chen, M Klimek, M Perelstein - SciPost Physics, 2021 - scipost.org
Abstract The algorithm for Monte Carlo simulation of parton-level events based on an
Artificial Neural Network (ANN) proposed in arXiv: 1810.11509 is used to perform a …

Generative Networks for LHC events

A Butter, T Plehn - Artificial intelligence for high energy physics, 2022 - World Scientific
LHC physics crucially relies on our ability to simulate events efficiently from first principles.
Modern machine learning, specifically generative networks, will help us tackle simulation …

How to GAN event subtraction

A Butter, T Plehn, R Winterhalder - SciPost Physics Core, 2020 - scipost.org
Subtracting event samples is a common task in LHC simulation and analysis, and standard
solutions tend to be inefficient. We employ generative adversarial networks to produce new …

JetFlow: Generating jets with conditioned and mass constrained normalising flows

B Käch, D Krücker, I Melzer-Pellmann, M Scham… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Fast data generation based on Machine Learning has become a major research topic in
particle physics. This is mainly because the Monte Carlo simulation approach is …