5–6 Mar 2026
CERN
Europe/Berlin timezone

An IRIS-HEP Blueprint Workshop

Differentiable Statistical Ecosystem with JAX [10' + 5']

6 Mar 2026, 14:10
15m
4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

CERN

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Speaker

Peter Fackeldey (Princeton University (US))

Description

The propagation of gradients with backpropagation through a HEP analysis for end-to-end optimization begins at the last step of a physics analysis: the statistical measurement. Therefore, it is crucial to have statistical tools that are fully differentiable in order to calculate gradients with respect to the final physical measurement. This contribution provides an overview of how such fully differentiable statistical tools can be achieved with the JAX ecosystem.

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