On relating Uncertainties in Machine Learning and HEP

by Michael Kagan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Wednesday 16 Nov 2022, 11:00 → 12:30 Europe/Zurich

Abstract:

Understanding uncertainties is at the core of data analysis in High Energy Collider Physics. As Machine Learning is rapidly becoming used across the collider physics data analysis pipeline, the High Energy Physics (HEP) community must understand when and what kinds of uncertainties are needed on the predictions of these ML models. At the same time, Uncertainty Quantification is a quickly growing and important topic in ML. In this seminar, we will discuss the connections between uncertainties in HEP and in ML, and progress towards developing and understanding uncertainty  quantification for ML in HEP data analysis. 

 

Kagan_PHYStats_2022.pdf