Optimal Transport Event Representation for Anomaly Detection

Fuente: arXiv
Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Cai, Tianji, Bhargava, Aditya, Nachman, Benjamin
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2025
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:
Tags: Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
_version_ 1866910058629038080
author Cai, Tianji
Bhargava, Aditya
Nachman, Benjamin
author_facet Cai, Tianji
Bhargava, Aditya
Nachman, Benjamin
contents We introduce optimal transport (OT) as a physics-based intermediate event representation for weakly supervised anomaly detection. With only $0.5\%$ injection of resonant signals in the LHC Olympics benchmark datasets, the OT-augmented feature set achieves nearly twice the significance improvement of standard high-level observables provided in the benchmark, while end-to-end deep learning on low-level four-momenta struggles in the low-signal regime. The gains persist across signal types and classifiers, underscoring the value of structured representations in machine learning for anomaly detection.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2512_04839
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Optimal Transport Event Representation for Anomaly Detection
Cai, Tianji
Bhargava, Aditya
Nachman, Benjamin
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
We introduce optimal transport (OT) as a physics-based intermediate event representation for weakly supervised anomaly detection. With only $0.5\%$ injection of resonant signals in the LHC Olympics benchmark datasets, the OT-augmented feature set achieves nearly twice the significance improvement of standard high-level observables provided in the benchmark, while end-to-end deep learning on low-level four-momenta struggles in the low-signal regime. The gains persist across signal types and classifiers, underscoring the value of structured representations in machine learning for anomaly detection.
title Optimal Transport Event Representation for Anomaly Detection
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04839