Efficient Estimation of Unfactorizable Systematic Uncertainties
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| author | Romero, Alexis Cranmer, Kyle Whiteson, Daniel |
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| contents | Accurate assessment of systematic uncertainties is an increasingly vital task in physics studies, where large, high-dimensional datasets, like those collected at the Large Hadron Collider, hold the key to new discoveries. Common approaches to assessing systematic uncertainties rely on simplifications, such as assuming that the impact of the various sources of uncertainty factorizes. In this paper, we provide realistic example scenarios in which this assumption fails. We introduce an algorithm that uses Gaussian process regression to estimate the impact of systematic uncertainties \textit{without} assuming factorization. The Gaussian process models are enhanced with derivative information, which increases the accuracy of the regression without increasing the number of samples. In addition, we present a novel sampling strategy based on Bayesian experimental design, which is shown to be more efficient than random and grid sampling in our example scenarios. |
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| spellingShingle | Efficient Estimation of Unfactorizable Systematic Uncertainties Romero, Alexis Cranmer, Kyle Whiteson, Daniel Methodology High Energy Physics - Experiment Accurate assessment of systematic uncertainties is an increasingly vital task in physics studies, where large, high-dimensional datasets, like those collected at the Large Hadron Collider, hold the key to new discoveries. Common approaches to assessing systematic uncertainties rely on simplifications, such as assuming that the impact of the various sources of uncertainty factorizes. In this paper, we provide realistic example scenarios in which this assumption fails. We introduce an algorithm that uses Gaussian process regression to estimate the impact of systematic uncertainties \textit{without} assuming factorization. The Gaussian process models are enhanced with derivative information, which increases the accuracy of the regression without increasing the number of samples. In addition, we present a novel sampling strategy based on Bayesian experimental design, which is shown to be more efficient than random and grid sampling in our example scenarios. |
| title | Efficient Estimation of Unfactorizable Systematic Uncertainties |
| topic | Methodology High Energy Physics - Experiment |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15500 |