Learning to rank Higgs boson candidates

Abstract

AbstractIn the extensive search for new physics, the precise measurement of the Higgs boson continues to play an important role. To this end, machine learning techniques have been recently applied to processes like the Higgs production via vector-boson fusion. In this paper, we propose to use algorithms for learning to rank, i.e., to rank events into a sorting order, first signal, then background, instead of algorithms for the classification into two classes, for this task. The fact that training is then performed on pairwise comparisons of signal and background events can effectively increase the amount of training data due to the quadratic number of possible combinations. This makes it robust to unbalanced data set scenarios and can improve the overall performance compared to pointwise models like the state-of-the-art boosted decision tree approach. In this work we compare our pairwise neural network algorithm, which is a combination of a convolutional neural network and the DirectRanker, with convolutional neural networks, multilayer perceptrons or boosted decision trees, which are commonly used algorithms in multiple Higgs production channels. Furthermore, we use so-called transfer learning techniques to improve overall performance on different data types.

Autoren

Marius Köppel
Alexander Segner
Martin Wagener
Lukas Pensel
Andreas Karwath
Christian Schmitt
Stefan Kramer

DOI

10.1038/s41598-022-10383-w

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2045-2322

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1

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Scientific Reports

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en

Artikelnummer

13094

Online publication date

2022

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Published online

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Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10383-w

Datum der Datenerfassung

2022

Titel

Learning to rank Higgs boson candidates

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Abstract

In the extensive search for new physics, the precise measurement of the Higgs boson continues to play an important role. To this end, machine learning techniques have been recently applied to processes like the Higgs production via vector-boson fusion. In this paper, we propose to use algorithms for learning to rank, i.e., to rank events into a sorting order, first signal, then background, instead of algorithms for the classification into two classes, for this task. The fact that training is then performed on pairwise comparisons of signal and background events can effectively increase the amount of training data due to the quadratic number of possible combinations. This makes it robust to unbalanced data set scenarios and can improve the overall performance compared to pointwise models like the state-of-the-art boosted decision tree approach. In this work we compare our pairwise neural network algorithm, which is a combination of a convolutional neural network and the DirectRanker, with convolutional neural networks, multilayer perceptrons or boosted decision trees, which are commonly used algorithms in multiple Higgs production channels. Furthermore, we use so-called transfer learning techniques to improve overall performance on different data types.

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Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. mkoeppel@uni-mainz.de.

Autoren

Marius Köppel
Alexander Segner
Martin Wagener
Lukas Pensel
Andreas Karwath
Christian Schmitt
Stefan Kramer

DOI

10.1038/s41598-022-10383-w

eISSN

2045-2322

Externe Identifier

PubMed Identifier: 35908043
PubMed Central ID: PMC9338962

Funding acknowledgements

Medical Research Charities Group: MR/S003991/1
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz:
Medical Research Council: MR/S003991/1

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2045-2322

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Scientific reports

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Electronic

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2022

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Open Access

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13094

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2022

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Published

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CC BY

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2022

Titel

Learning to rank Higgs boson candidates.

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Abstract

In the extensive search for new physics, the precise measurement of the Higgs boson continues to play an important role. To this end, machine learning techniques have been recently applied to processes like the Higgs production via vector-boson fusion. In this paper, we propose to use algorithms for learning to rank, i.e., to rank events into a sorting order, first signal, then background, instead of algorithms for the classification into two classes, for this task. The fact that training is then performed on pairwise comparisons of signal and background events can effectively increase the amount of training data due to the quadratic number of possible combinations. This makes it robust to unbalanced data set scenarios and can improve the overall performance compared to pointwise models like the state-of-the-art boosted decision tree approach. In this work we compare our pairwise neural network algorithm, which is a combination of a convolutional neural network and the DirectRanker, with convolutional neural networks, multilayer perceptrons or boosted decision trees, which are commonly used algorithms in multiple Higgs production channels. Furthermore, we use so-called transfer learning techniques to improve overall performance on different data types.

Date of acceptance

2022

Autoren

Marius Köppel
Alexander Segner
Martin Wagener
Lukas Pensel
Andreas Karwath
Christian Schmitt
Stefan Kramer

Autoren-URL

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35908043

DOI

10.1038/s41598-022-10383-w

eISSN

2045-2322

Externe Identifier

PubMed Central ID: PMC9338962

Funding acknowledgements

Medical Research Council: MR/S003991/1
Medical Research Charities Group: MR/S003991/1

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13094

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Datum der Veröffentlichung

2022

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Published online

Titel

Learning to rank Higgs boson candidates.

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Journal Article

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12

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CC-BY

Autoren

Marius Köppel
Alexander Segner
Martin Wagener
Lukas Pensel
Andreas Karwath
Christian Schmitt
Stefan Kramer

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Springer Nature

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2022

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Learning to rank Higgs boson candidates

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