Bias and Priors in Machine Learning Calibrations for High Energy Physics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05084v1
• Date: Tue, 10 May 2022 18:00:00 GMT
• Title: Bias and Priors in Machine Learning Calibrations for High Energy Physics
• Authors: Rikab Gambhir, Benjamin Nachman, and Jesse Thaler
• Abstract summary: We highlight the prior dependence of some machine learning-based calibration strategies. Recent proposals for both simulation-based and data-based calibrations inherit properties of the sample used for training. In the case of simulation-based calibration, we argue that our recently proposed Gaussian Ansatz approach can avoid some of the pitfalls of prior dependence.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Machine learning offers an exciting opportunity to improve the calibration of nearly all reconstructed objects in high-energy physics detectors. However, machine learning approaches often depend on the spectra of examples used during training, an issue known as prior dependence. This is an undesirable property of a calibration, which needs to be applicable in a variety of environments. The purpose of this paper is to explicitly highlight the prior dependence of some machine learning-based calibration strategies. We demonstrate how some recent proposals for both simulation-based and data-based calibrations inherit properties of the sample used for training, which can result in biases for downstream analyses. In the case of simulation-based calibration, we argue that our recently proposed Gaussian Ansatz approach can avoid some of the pitfalls of prior dependence, whereas prior-independent data-based calibration remains an open problem.

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