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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 47: Neural networks and systematic uncertainties

T 47.2: Talk

Wednesday, April 1, 2020, 16:45–17:00, H-HS IV

New methods for the application of neural networks in the presence of systematic uncertainties — Simon Jörger¹, Günter Quast¹, Roger Wolf¹, and •Stefan Wunsch^1,2 — ¹KIT — ²CERN

In this talk, we introduce new methods for the application of neural networks in the presence of systematic uncertainties, common in HEP analysis. We discuss a new technique to identify those features of the multi-dimensional input space, which the response of the network is most sensitive to, as a crucial input to the discussion of the propagation of systematic uncertainties onto the neural network output and therefore the measurement. A second method is presented to penalize such propagations of systematic variations controlling the impact of systematic uncertainties on the measurement.