| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 337, 2025
27th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2024)
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| Article Number | 01321 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202533701321 | |
| Published online | 07 October 2025 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202533701321
New RooFit PyROOT interfaces for connections with Machine Learning
CERN
* e-mail: jonas.rembser@cern.ch
Published online: 7 October 2025
With the growing datasets of HE(N)P experiments, statistical analysis becomes more computationally demanding, requiring improvements in existing statistical analysis algorithms and software. One way forward is to use Machine Learning (ML) techniques to approximate the otherwise untractable likelihood ratios. Likelihood fits in HEP are often done with RooFit, a C++ framework for statistical modeling that is part of ROOT. This contribution demonstrates how learned likelihood ratios can be used in RooFit analyses, showcasing new RooFit features that were developed for that purpose. Since ML models are often created with Python libraries, this necessitated new RooFit “pythonizations”, e.g. for using Python functions as RooFit functions in general. Some of these pythonizations were only possible by a major PyROOT upgrade that was undertaken this year. Therefore, this contribution will also summarize the new PyROOT features, showcasing the new features of both RooFit and PyROOT that benefit the users of the latest ROOT versions.
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