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How to GAN Event Unweighting
by Mathias Backes, Anja Butter, Tilman Plehn, Ramon Winterhalder
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| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Tilman Plehn · Ramon Winterhalder |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07873v3 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | 2021-04-21 |
| Date submitted: | 2021-03-25 10:44 |
| Submitted by: | Winterhalder, Ramon |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Computational |
Abstract
Event generation with neural networks has seen significant progress recently. The big open question is still how such new methods will accelerate LHC simulations to the level required by upcoming LHC runs. We target a known bottleneck of standard simulations and show how their unweighting procedure can be improved by generative networks. This can, potentially, lead to a very significant gain in simulation speed.
Published as SciPost Phys. 10, 089 (2021)
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Report #2 by Anonymous (Referee 5) on 2021-4-7 (Invited Report)
- Cite as: Anonymous, Report on arXiv:2012.07873v3, delivered 2021-04-07, doi: 10.21468/SciPost.Report.2762
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Dear authors,
thanks for clarifying the jargon in the new version.
Did you have any thoughts on my previous question as to where that small horizontal shift between the uwGAN curve and true distribution in the bottom left/right plots of Fig1 might come from (also visible as a slope in the bottom left plot of Fig3)?
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Author: Ramon Winterhalder on 2021-04-12 [id 1353]
(in reply to Report 2 on 2021-04-07)Did you have any thoughts on my previous question as to where that small horizontal shift between the uwGAN curve and true distribution in the bottom left/right plots of Fig1 might come from (also visible as a slope in the bottom left plot of Fig3)?
-> The mentioned small shift is not reproducible over various training runs. Minor deviations between the uwGAN
curve and the true distribution are always visible and are an effect of limited training size and limited statistics.