17–24 Jul 2024
Prague
Europe/Prague timezone

Differentiable Vertex Fitting for Jet Flavour Tagging

19 Jul 2024, 15:55
17m
Club A

Club A

Parallel session talk 14. Computing, AI and Data Handling Computing and Data handling

Speaker

Ines Ochoa (LIP - Laboratorio de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (PT))

Description

We propose a differentiable vertex fitting algorithm that can be used for secondary vertex fitting, and that can be seamlessly integrated into neural networks for jet flavour tagging. Vertex fitting is formulated as an optimization problem where gradients of the optimized solution vertex are defined through implicit differentiation and can be passed to upstream or downstream neural network components for network training. More broadly, this is an application of differentiable programming to integrate physics knowledge into neural network models in high energy physics. We demonstrate how differentiable secondary vertex fitting can be integrated into larger transformer-based models for flavour tagging and improve heavy flavour jet classification.

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Authors

Ines Ochoa (LIP - Laboratorio de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (PT)) Jonathan Shoemaker (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Michael Kagan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Rachel Emma Clarke Smith (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Ruben Miguel De Almeida Inacio (LIP - Laboratorio de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (PT))

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