[HTML][HTML] Deep generative models for detector signature simulation: A taxonomic review

B Hashemi, C Krause - Reviews in Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
In modern collider experiments, the quest to explore fundamental interactions between
elementary particles has reached unparalleled levels of precision. Signatures from particle …

Anomaly detection with density estimation

B Nachman, D Shih - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We leverage recent breakthroughs in neural density estimation to propose a new
unsupervised ANOmaly detection with Density Estimation (ANODE) technique. By …

A guide for deploying Deep Learning in LHC searches: How to achieve optimality and account for uncertainty

B Nachman - SciPost Physics, 2020 - scipost.org
Deep learning tools can incorporate all of the available information into a search for new
particles, thus making the best use of the available data. This paper reviews how to optimally …

Evaluating generative models in high energy physics

R Kansal, A Li, J Duarte, N Chernyavskaya, M Pierini… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
There has been a recent explosion in research into machine-learning-based generative
modeling to tackle computational challenges for simulations in high energy physics (HEP) …

Event generation with normalizing flows

C Gao, S Höche, J Isaacson, C Krause, H Schulz - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We present a novel integrator based on normalizing flows which can be used to improve the
unweighting efficiency of Monte Carlo event generators for collider physics simulations. In …

i-flow: High-dimensional Integration and Sampling with Normalizing Flows

C Gao, J Isaacson, C Krause - Machine Learning: Science and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In many fields of science, high-dimensional integration is required. Numerical methods have
been developed to evaluate these complex integrals. We introduce the code i-flow, a Python …

Getting high: High fidelity simulation of high granularity calorimeters with high speed

E Buhmann, S Diefenbacher, E Eren, F Gaede… - Computing and Software …, 2021 - Springer
Accurate simulation of physical processes is crucial for the success of modern particle
physics. However, simulating the development and interaction of particle showers with …

CaloFlow: fast and accurate generation of calorimeter showers with normalizing flows

C Krause, D Shih - arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.05285, 2021 - arxiv.org
We introduce CaloFlow, a fast detector simulation framework based on normalizing flows.
For the first time, we demonstrate that normalizing flows can reproduce many-channel …

Challenges for unsupervised anomaly detection in particle physics

K Fraser, S Homiller, RK Mishra, B Ostdiek… - Journal of High Energy …, 2022 - Springer
A bstract Anomaly detection relies on designing a score to determine whether a particular
event is uncharacteristic of a given background distribution. One way to define a score is to …

Symmetries, safety, and self-supervision

BM Dillon, G Kasieczka, H Olischlager, T Plehn… - SciPost Physics, 2022 - scipost.org
Collider searches face the challenge of defining a representation of high-dimensional data
such that physical symmetries are manifest, the discriminating features are retained, and the …