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| author | Jones, Stephen Maître, Daniel Olsson, Anton |
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| contents | In this article, we explore the use of contour deformation for the numerical evaluation of Feynman integrals after sector decomposition. In existing codes, the contour of integration is determined heuristically for each phase-space point by sampling the integrand. In this work, we introduce a method for choosing the contour deformation for an entire phase-space region using only an initial sampling or training step. We demonstrate that the resulting integrand has a lower variance than that obtained with heuristic methods and show that optimising a contour to reduce the estimated error of a Quasi-Monte Carlo sample is an ill-defined problem. The a priori knowledge of the integration path obtained in this work can be used to improve the speed of conventional integration methods or be leveraged for integration using neural networks, where, crucially, it removes the need to retrain the neural network for each phase-space point. The techniques described in this work can be adapted to other problems where a non-trivial integration path has to be chosen subject to a set of constraints. |
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| spellingShingle | Globally Optimal Contour Deformations with Neural Networks Jones, Stephen Maître, Daniel Olsson, Anton High Energy Physics - Phenomenology In this article, we explore the use of contour deformation for the numerical evaluation of Feynman integrals after sector decomposition. In existing codes, the contour of integration is determined heuristically for each phase-space point by sampling the integrand. In this work, we introduce a method for choosing the contour deformation for an entire phase-space region using only an initial sampling or training step. We demonstrate that the resulting integrand has a lower variance than that obtained with heuristic methods and show that optimising a contour to reduce the estimated error of a Quasi-Monte Carlo sample is an ill-defined problem. The a priori knowledge of the integration path obtained in this work can be used to improve the speed of conventional integration methods or be leveraged for integration using neural networks, where, crucially, it removes the need to retrain the neural network for each phase-space point. The techniques described in this work can be adapted to other problems where a non-trivial integration path has to be chosen subject to a set of constraints. |
| title | Globally Optimal Contour Deformations with Neural Networks |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11448 |