Scaling laws in jet classification
Joshua Batson, Yonatan Kahn
SciPost Phys. Core 8, 034 (2025) · published 28 March 2025
- doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.8.1.034
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Abstract
We demonstrate the emergence of scaling laws in the benchmark top versus QCD jet classification problem in collider physics. Six distinct physically-motivated classifiers exhibit power-law scaling of the binary cross-entropy test loss as a function of training set size, with distinct power law indices. This result highlights the importance of comparing classifiers as a function of dataset size rather than for a fixed training set, as the optimal classifier may change considerably as the dataset is scaled up. We speculate on the interpretation of our results in terms of previous models of scaling laws observed in natural language and image datasets.
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- 1 2 3 Yonatan Frederick Kahn
- 1 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign [UIUC]
- 2 University of Toronto
- 3 Institut de Vector / Vector Institute
- National Science Foundation [NSF]
- United States Department of Energy [DOE]
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (through Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign [UIUC])