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Machine Learning LHC likelihoods
<!--HTML-->Full statistical models encapsulate the complete information of an experimental result, including the likelihood function given observed data. Their proper publication is of vital importance for a long lasting legacy of the LHC. Major steps have been taken towards this goal; a notab...
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author | Reyes-González, Humberto |
author_facet | Reyes-González, Humberto |
author_sort | Reyes-González, Humberto |
collection | CERN |
description | <!--HTML-->Full statistical models encapsulate the complete information of an experimental result, including the likelihood function given observed data. Their proper publication is of vital importance for a long lasting legacy of the LHC. Major steps have been taken towards this goal; a notable example being ATLAS release of statistical models with the pyhf framework. However, even the likelihoods are often high-dimensional complex functions that are not straightforward to parametrize. Thus, we propose to describe them with Normalizing Flows, a modern type of generative networks that explicitly learn the probability density distribution. As a proof of concept we focused on two likelihoods from global fits to SM observables and a likelihood of a NP-like search, obtaining great results for all of them. Complementarily, for New Physics search reinterpretation we are often only interested in the profiled likelihood given a signal strength, reducing the problem to a much less dimensional one. In this talk, we also discuss ongoing efforts on parametrising profiled likelihoods with neural networks. |
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institution | Organización Europea para la Investigación Nuclear |
language | eng |
publishDate | 2022 |
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spelling | cern-28451582022-12-21T22:13:59Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/2845158engReyes-González, HumbertoMachine Learning LHC likelihoods(Re)interpretation of the LHC results for new physicsWorkshops<!--HTML-->Full statistical models encapsulate the complete information of an experimental result, including the likelihood function given observed data. Their proper publication is of vital importance for a long lasting legacy of the LHC. Major steps have been taken towards this goal; a notable example being ATLAS release of statistical models with the pyhf framework. However, even the likelihoods are often high-dimensional complex functions that are not straightforward to parametrize. Thus, we propose to describe them with Normalizing Flows, a modern type of generative networks that explicitly learn the probability density distribution. As a proof of concept we focused on two likelihoods from global fits to SM observables and a likelihood of a NP-like search, obtaining great results for all of them. Complementarily, for New Physics search reinterpretation we are often only interested in the profiled likelihood given a signal strength, reducing the problem to a much less dimensional one. In this talk, we also discuss ongoing efforts on parametrising profiled likelihoods with neural networks.oai:cds.cern.ch:28451582022 |
spellingShingle | Workshops Reyes-González, Humberto Machine Learning LHC likelihoods |
title | Machine Learning LHC likelihoods |
title_full | Machine Learning LHC likelihoods |
title_fullStr | Machine Learning LHC likelihoods |
title_full_unstemmed | Machine Learning LHC likelihoods |
title_short | Machine Learning LHC likelihoods |
title_sort | machine learning lhc likelihoods |
topic | Workshops |
url | http://cds.cern.ch/record/2845158 |
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