Abstract
Recent progress in applying machine learning for jet physics has been built upon an analogy between calorimeters and images. In this work, we present a novel class of recursive neural networks built instead upon an analogy between QCD and natural languages. In the analogy, four-momenta are like words and the clustering history of sequential recombination jet algorithms is like the parsing of a sentence. Our approach works directly with the four-momenta of a variable-length set of particles, and the jet-based tree structure varies on an event-by-event basis. Our experiments highlight the flexibility of our method for building task-specific jet embeddings and show that recursive architectures are significantly more accurate and data efficient than previous image-based networks. We extend the analogy from individual jets (sentences) to full events (paragraphs), and show for the first time an event-level classifier operating on all the stable particles produced in an LHC event.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 57 |
Journal | Journal of High Energy Physics |
Volume | 2019 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2019 |
Keywords
- Jets
- QCD Phenomenology
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics