Second MODE Workshop on Differentiable Programming for Experiment Design

Normalizing flows for differentiable expectation values

14 Sept 2022, 09:50

20m

OAC conference center, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece.

Talk Astrophysics and Cosmology Applications in AstroHEP

Speaker

Thorsten Glüsenkamp (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Description

I will give a short introduction to (conditional) normalizing flows and discuss why they are essential to calculate "manageable" differentiable expectation values of continuous random variables. I will discuss some examples where this might be useful and end the talk with a github-package that combines some state of the art conditional normalizing flows to be used with minimal manual labor.

Presentation materials

mode_talk_gluesenkamp.pdf