Variational Autoencoders for Generative Modelling of Water Cherenkov Detectors
arXiv:1911.02369
Abstract
Matter-antimatter asymmetry is one of the major unsolved problems in physics that can be probed through precision measurements of charge-parity symmetry violation at current and next-generation neutrino oscillation experiments. In this work, we demonstrate the capability of variational autoencoders and normalizing flows to approximate the generative distribution of simulated data for water Cherenkov detectors commonly used in these experiments. We study the performance of these methods and their applicability for semi-supervised learning and synthetic data generation.
arXiv comment6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, submitted to Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences Workshop at NeurIPS 2019
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