Lantern: Conflict-Aware Gradient Blending for Physics-Guided Diffusion Models in Calorimeter Simulation

Farzana Yasmin Ahmad, Vanamala Venkataswamy, Geoffrey Fox

Monte Carlo simulation of calorimeter showers is a principal bottleneck for the High-Luminosity LHC, and diffusion models have emerged as fast, high-fidelity surrogates. Their deno…