Learning to discover: expressive Gaussian mixture models for multi-dimensional simulation and parameter inference in the physical sciences

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.11481v1
• Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 21:27:29 GMT
• Title: Learning to discover: expressive Gaussian mixture models for multi-dimensional simulation and parameter inference in the physical sciences
• Authors: Stephen B. Menary and Darren D. Price
• Abstract summary: We show that density models describing multiple observables may be created using an auto-regressive Gaussian mixture model. The model is designed to capture how observable spectra are deformed by hypothesis variations. It may be used as a statistical model for scientific discovery in interpreting experimental observations.
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• Abstract: We show that density models describing multiple observables with (i) hard boundaries and (ii) dependence on external parameters may be created using an auto-regressive Gaussian mixture model. The model is designed to capture how observable spectra are deformed by hypothesis variations, and is made more expressive by projecting data onto a configurable latent space. It may be used as a statistical model for scientific discovery in interpreting experimental observations, for example when constraining the parameters of a physical model or tuning simulation parameters according to calibration data. The model may also be sampled for use within a Monte Carlo simulation chain, or used to estimate likelihood ratios for event classification. The method is demonstrated on simulated high-energy particle physics data considering the anomalous electroweak production of a $Z$ boson in association with a dijet system at the Large Hadron Collider, and the accuracy of inference is tested using a realistic toy example. The developed methods are domain agnostic; they may be used within any field to perform simulation or inference where a dataset consisting of many real-valued observables has conditional dependence on external parameters.

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