16–17 Jul 2020
Virtual
Europe/Berlin timezone

Anomaly Detection with Normalizing Flows and Latent Variable Models

16 Jul 2020, 17:20
20m
Virtual

Virtual

Speaker

Justin Tan (Melbourne)

Description

In this note we review model-agnostic approaches to searches for new physics signatures using normalizing flow and latent variable models. We also propose a bootstrap method that allows us to estimate the continuous densities that form the likelihood ratio between the background and signal-plus-background hypothesis with minimal a priori knowledge of the signal structure.

Primary author

Justin Tan (Melbourne)

Presentation materials