用符号回归自动找函数,高效拟合高能物理数据分布。
SymbolFit: Automatic Parametric Modeling with Symbolic Regression
- 用符号回归自动搜索合适函数形式,无需预设公式。
- 仅靠随机种子变化就能适配多种复杂分布,拟合效果好。
- 适合高能物理中需快速建模的场景,省去手动调参耗时。
我们提出SymbolFit框架,通过符号回归实现参数化建模自动化,在一次运行中同时完成函数拟合并估计不确定性。传统方法需手动选定函数形式,尤其在无理论闭式解时效率低下。本工作利用符号回归技术,将函数形式作为可训练参数,在无需预设形式的情况下高效探索庞大函数空间。我们在欧洲核子中心大型强子对撞机(LHC)的五组真实质子-质子碰撞数据上验证,涵盖高质量二喷注、三喷注、配对二喷注、二光子和双μ子事例的背景建模任务。结果表明,仅通过改变随机种子,该框架即可灵活生成大量高质量候选函数,有效拟合复杂分布;同一配置适用于不同形状的分布,而传统方法需大量人工调整才能达到类似效果。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We introduce SymbolFit, a framework that automates parametric modeling by using symbolic regression to perform a machine-search for functions that fit the data while simultaneously providing uncertainty estimates in a single run. Traditionally, constructing a parametric model to accurately describe binned data has been a manual and iterative process, requiring an adequate functional form to be determined before the fit can be performed. The main challenge arises when the appropriate functional forms cannot be derived from first principles, especially when there is no underlying true closed-form function for the distribution. In this work, we develop a framework that automates and streamlines the process by utilizing symbolic regression, a machine learning technique that explores a vast space of candidate functions without requiring a predefined functional form because the functional form itself is treated as a trainable parameter, making the process far more efficient and effortless than traditional regression methods. We demonstrate the framework in high-energy physics experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) using five real proton-proton collision datasets from new physics searches, including background modeling in resonance searches for high-mass dijet, trijet, paired-dijet, diphoton, and dimuon events. We show that our framework can flexibly and efficiently generate a wide range of candidate functions that fit a nontrivial distribution well using a simple fit configuration that varies only by random seed, and that the same fit configuration, which defines a vast function space, can also be applied to distributions of different shapes, whereas achieving a comparable result with traditional methods would have required extensive manual effort.
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