Controlling Quality for a Physics-Driven Generative Models and Auxiliary Regression Approach

¹ HSE University
² Yandex School of Data Analysis

^* e-mail: airogachev@hse.ru
^** e-mail: fedor.ratnikov@cern.ch

Published online: 6 May 2024

Abstract

High energy physics experiments heavily rely on the results of MC simulation of data used to extract physics results. However, the detailed simulation often requires tremendous amount of computation resources.

Using Generative Adversarial Networks and other deep learning generative techniques can drastically speed up the computationally heavy simulations like a simulation of the calorimeter response. To be useful, such models are required to satisfy quality metrics which are driven by a specific physics properties of generated objects rather than by a regular ML image-like quality metrics.

The auxiliary regression extension to the GAN-based fast simulation demonstrated improvements of the physics quality for generated objects. This approach introduces physics metrics to a Discriminator path of the model thus allows direct discriminating of objects with poorly reproduced properties.

In this paper we discuss the auxiliary regression GAN approach to physicsbased fast simulation and concentrate on requirements to the quality of the auxiliary regressor to provide a necessary precision of the generative models built on top of this regressor.