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Main Authors: Cai, Tianji, Bhargava, Aditya, Nachman, Benjamin
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04839
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  • 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.