Generative Amplification with Surrogate Monte Carlo

Abstract

Amplitude surrogates for LHC simulations build on generative amplification, the fact that a surrogate trained on an expensive and small training dataset describes the smooth amplitude more precisely than the training data does. Applying techniques developed for generative networks, we quantify this amplification for gluon-associated $Z$ production. Significant amplification appears in sparsely populated kinematic tails, where it matters most. Our results show how generative amplification from surrogate Monte Carlo far outperforms the density estimation in current generative networks.

23 pages, 17 figures