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

From Information Geometry to Jet Substructure: A Triality of Cumulant Tensors, Energy Correlators, and Hypergraphs

24 Aug 2026, 16:10
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Explainability & Theory 🔀 Explainability & Theory

Speaker

Aritra Bal (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

Description

Pairwise Fisher graphs capture local covariance information, but they cannot distinguish an irreducible multi-observable radiation pattern from a collection of ordinary pairwise correlations. We show that the higher Fisher tensors supply this missing structure. In a finite basis of binned EECs, ECFs, or EFPs, and in the natural exponential-family coordinates generated by that basis, the same local tensor has three equivalent interpretations: it is a coefficient in the local Kullback–Leibler expansion, a connected cumulant of the chosen correlator observables, and a signed weight on a hyperedge linking those observables. This gives an exact Fisher–correlator–hypergraph triality in the local exponential-family embedding.

The triality provides a direct construction of physics-informed hypergraphs from measured or simulated correlator data. Extending the quadratic Fisher matrix to the first non-trivial higher tensor identifies connected multi-observable radiation patterns and supplies hyperedge weights for higher-order Laplacians and message passing. It also gives a criterion for compressing observable bases beyond pairwise information. We develop these constructions and explain why the exact cumulant interpretation is specific to natural exponential-family coordinates.

We illustrate the framework in four applications. In a minimal local-KL study, including the cubic Fisher tensor reduces the KL truncation error by about 30× near the reference point and isolates the dominant triplet structure. In a W → q<span style="text-decoration: overline;">q</span> versus t → bq<span style="text-decoration: overline;">q</span> substructure benchmark, the hypergraph selector improves compressed-basis classification. The Fisher hypergraph retains more third-order local response at twelve observables, with <span style="text-decoration: overline;">R</span>(3) = 0.937 compared with 0.871 for the pairwise graph. A low-capacity learning benchmark then shows that the same Fisher hyperedges serve as an interpretable inductive bias for message passing over correlator observables.

Authors

Aritra Bal (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)) Prof. Michael Spannowsky (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

Co-authors

Dr Benedikt Maier (Imperial College London) Prof. Markus Klute (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

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