24–28 Aug 2026
Kirchhoff Institute for Physics (KIP)
Europe/Berlin timezone

How to Trust Learned Loop Amplitudes

25 Aug 2026, 11:00
8m
HS1

HS1

Inference & Uncertainty 🔀 Inference & Uncertainty

Speaker

Henning Bahl

Description

Higher-order theory predictions are crucial for the precision LHC program, but the time-consuming amplitude evaluation challenges the corresponding Monte-Carlo simulations. Machine-learned amplitude surrogates can resolve this problem, if we can guarantee their precision over the entire phase space. First, we show that our surrogates provide a calibrated learned uncertainty, even for non-Gaussian systematics; second, we describe how less accurate phase space regions can be identified; third, we demonstrate how the precision in these regions can be improved reliably.

Authors

Gudrun Heinrich (KIT) Henning Bahl Jens Braun (KIT) Rebecca Revelli (Heidelberg University) Tilman Plehn (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg; Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Universität Heidelberg)

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