Machine Learning-based Unfolding for Cross Section Measurements in the Presence of Nuisance Parameters
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| author | Zhu, Huanbiao Desai, Krish Kuusela, Mikael Mikuni, Vinicius Nachman, Benjamin Wasserman, Larry |
| author_facet | Zhu, Huanbiao Desai, Krish Kuusela, Mikael Mikuni, Vinicius Nachman, Benjamin Wasserman, Larry |
| contents | Statistically correcting measured cross sections for detector effects is an important step across many applications. In particle physics, this inverse problem is known as unfolding. In cases with complex instruments, the distortions they introduce are often known only implicitly through simulations of the detector. Modern machine learning has enabled efficient simulation-based approaches for unfolding high-dimensional data. Among these, one of the first methods successfully deployed on experimental data is the OmniFold algorithm, a classifier-based Expectation-Maximization procedure. In practice, however, the forward model is only approximately specified, and the corresponding uncertainty is encoded through nuisance parameters. Building on the well-studied OmniFold algorithm, we show how to extend machine learning-based unfolding to incorporate nuisance parameters. Our new algorithm, called Profile OmniFold, is demonstrated using a Gaussian example as well as a particle physics case study using simulated data from the CMS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. |
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| spellingShingle | Machine Learning-based Unfolding for Cross Section Measurements in the Presence of Nuisance Parameters Zhu, Huanbiao Desai, Krish Kuusela, Mikael Mikuni, Vinicius Nachman, Benjamin Wasserman, Larry Applications High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability Machine Learning Statistically correcting measured cross sections for detector effects is an important step across many applications. In particle physics, this inverse problem is known as unfolding. In cases with complex instruments, the distortions they introduce are often known only implicitly through simulations of the detector. Modern machine learning has enabled efficient simulation-based approaches for unfolding high-dimensional data. Among these, one of the first methods successfully deployed on experimental data is the OmniFold algorithm, a classifier-based Expectation-Maximization procedure. In practice, however, the forward model is only approximately specified, and the corresponding uncertainty is encoded through nuisance parameters. Building on the well-studied OmniFold algorithm, we show how to extend machine learning-based unfolding to incorporate nuisance parameters. Our new algorithm, called Profile OmniFold, is demonstrated using a Gaussian example as well as a particle physics case study using simulated data from the CMS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. |
| title | Machine Learning-based Unfolding for Cross Section Measurements in the Presence of Nuisance Parameters |
| topic | Applications High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07074 |