Autoencoders with latent spaces shaped like S^2, S^2×S^2, or RP^2, matched to the phase-space topology of the background, reduce spurious reconstruction errors and give a small but consistent anomaly-detection gain over flat latent spaces on simulated top-quark decays.
Particle Graph Autoencoders and Differentiable, Learned Energy Mover's Distance
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Autoencoders have useful applications in high energy physics in anomaly detection, particularly for jets - collimated showers of particles produced in collisions such as those at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. We explore the use of graph-based autoencoders, which operate on jets in their "particle cloud" representations and can leverage the interdependencies among the particles within a jet, for such tasks. Additionally, we develop a differentiable approximation to the energy mover's distance via a graph neural network, which may subsequently be used as a reconstruction loss function for autoencoders.
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Enhancing anomaly detection with topology-aware autoencoders
Autoencoders with latent spaces shaped like S^2, S^2×S^2, or RP^2, matched to the phase-space topology of the background, reduce spurious reconstruction errors and give a small but consistent anomaly-detection gain over flat latent spaces on simulated top-quark decays.