EPE ML meeting: Raghav Kansal

Monday 11 Oct 2021, 17:00 → 18:00 America/Los_Angeles

WRF data science studio (PAT 6th floor)

Abstract:

There has been significant development recently in generative models for accelerating LHC simulations. Work on simulating jets has primarily used image-based representations, which tend to be sparse and of limited resolution. We advocate for the more natural 'particle cloud' representation of jets, i.e. as a set of particles in momentum space, and discuss four physics- and computer-vision-inspired metrics: (1) the 1-Wasserstein distance between high- and low-level feature distributions; (2) a new Fréchet ParticleNet Distance; (3) the coverage; and (4) the minimum matching distance as means of quantitatively and holistically evaluating generated particle clouds. We then present our new message-passing generative adversarial network (MPGAN), which has excellent performance on gluon, top quark, and lighter quark jets on all metrics, validated against real samples via bootstrapping as well as existing point cloud generative models, and shows promise for use in high energy physics.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.15197
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11535
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00173

Bio:

Raghav Kansal is a PhD candidate in Physics at the University of California, San Diego, and member of the CMS collaboration at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) where he works on high precision measurements using LHC data. He is also currently a 2021 LPC Artificial Intelligence Fellow at Fermilab, working on developing geometric deep learning techniques for simulation, classification, and reconstruction in high energy physics. 

1 Particle Cloud Generation with Message Passing Generative Adversarial Networks

Speaker: Raghav Kansal (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

UW EPE ML Seminar 11_10_21.pdf