Quark-versus-gluon tagging in CMS Open Data with CWoLa and TopicFlow

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Auteurs principaux: Dolan, Matthew J., Gargalionis, John, Ore, Ayodele
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author Dolan, Matthew J.
Gargalionis, John
Ore, Ayodele
author_facet Dolan, Matthew J.
Gargalionis, John
Ore, Ayodele
contents We use the CMS Open Data to examine the performance of weakly-supervised learning for tagging quark and gluon jets at the LHC. We target $Z$+jet and dijet events as respective quark- and gluon-enriched mixtures and derive samples both from data taken in 2011 at 7 TeV, and from Monte Carlo. CWoLa and TopicFlow models are trained on real data and compared to fully-supervised classifiers trained on simulation. In order to obtain estimates for the discrimination power in real data, we consider three different estimates of the quark/gluon mixture fractions in the data. Compared to when the models are evaluated on simulation, we find reversed rankings for the fully- and weakly-supervised approaches. Further, these rankings based on data are robust to the estimate of the mixture fraction in the test set. Finally, we use TopicFlow to smooth statistical fluctuations in the small testing set, and to provide uncertainty on the performance in real data.
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spellingShingle Quark-versus-gluon tagging in CMS Open Data with CWoLa and TopicFlow
Dolan, Matthew J.
Gargalionis, John
Ore, Ayodele
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
We use the CMS Open Data to examine the performance of weakly-supervised learning for tagging quark and gluon jets at the LHC. We target $Z$+jet and dijet events as respective quark- and gluon-enriched mixtures and derive samples both from data taken in 2011 at 7 TeV, and from Monte Carlo. CWoLa and TopicFlow models are trained on real data and compared to fully-supervised classifiers trained on simulation. In order to obtain estimates for the discrimination power in real data, we consider three different estimates of the quark/gluon mixture fractions in the data. Compared to when the models are evaluated on simulation, we find reversed rankings for the fully- and weakly-supervised approaches. Further, these rankings based on data are robust to the estimate of the mixture fraction in the test set. Finally, we use TopicFlow to smooth statistical fluctuations in the small testing set, and to provide uncertainty on the performance in real data.
title Quark-versus-gluon tagging in CMS Open Data with CWoLa and TopicFlow
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03434