Jack Collins (SLAC) “Representation Learning for Collider Events”

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Collider events, when imbued with a metric which characterizes the ‘distance’ between two events, can be thought of as populating a data manifold in a metric space. The geometric properties of this manifold reflect the physics encoded in the distance metric. I will show how the geometry of collider events can be probed using a class of machine learning architectures called Variational Autoencoders.