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Poster

Lorentz Group Equivariant Neural Network for Particle Physics

Alexander Bogatskiy · Brandon Anderson · Jan T Offermann · Marwah Roussi · David Miller · Risi Kondor

Keywords: [ Deep Learning - General ] [ Other ] [ Deep Learning Theory ] [ Architectures ]


Abstract:

We present a neural network architecture that is fully equivariant with respect to transformations under the Lorentz group, a fundamental symmetry of space and time in physics. The architecture is based on the theory of the finite-dimensional representations of the Lorentz group and the equivariant nonlinearity involves the tensor product. For classification tasks in particle physics, we show that such an equivariant architecture leads to drastically simpler models that have relatively few learnable parameters and are much more physically interpretable than leading approaches that use CNNs and point cloud approaches. The performance of the network is tested on a public classification dataset [https://zenodo.org/record/2603256] for tagging top quark decays given energy-momenta of jet constituents produced in proton-proton collisions.

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