Seminaire PHE: Physicists Learning from Machines Learning
lundi 1 février 2021 -
11:00
lundi 1 février 2021
11:00
Seminaire PHE: Physicists Learning from Machines Learning
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Taylor Faucett
Seminaire PHE: Physicists Learning from Machines Learning
Taylor Faucett
11:00 - 11:40
Machine learning methods are extremely powerful but often function as black-box problem solvers, providing improved performance at the expense of clarity. Our work describes a new machine learning approach which translates the strategy of a deep neural network into simple functions that are meaningful and intelligible to the physicist, without sacrificing performance improvements. We apply this approach to benchmark high-energy problems of fat-jet classification and electron identification. In each case, we find simple new observables which provide additional classification power and novel insights into the nature of the problem.