用函数分解方法揭示不同粒子碰撞生成器的差异来源与演化。
Functional anatomy of Pythia-Herwig differences with Kolmogorov-Arnold networks
- 用Kolmogorov-Arnold网络拆解生成器差异为单变量响应
- 发现多度差异主导初喷阶段,质量与形状在后续阶段主导
- 揭示部分差异信息在传递中失效,暴露统计支持不足问题
高能粒子碰撞事件生成器间的差异可能出现在从硬散射到强子化和最终事件生成的多个阶段。现有方法通常通过可观测量分布或全局分类器得分量化差异,但无法揭示具体是哪些可观测量结构承载了差异,以及这些结构是否贯穿各阶段。本文将该问题转化为分阶段的功能分析,以相同硬双喷注事例追踪Pythia与Herwig在仅喷注、强子化和完整生成器三个层级的表现。利用基于分类器导出对数密度比的加性Kolmogorov-Arnold网络(KAN)表示,将学习到的差异分解为可分离、可重组、可跨阶段传输的一维可观测量响应。在相同的八可观测量喷注表示下,Pythia-Herwig差异在喷注阶段主要由多重性驱动,强子化后转向喷注质量与形状,全生成器配置下则表现为形状与多重性的混合结构。将喷注级功能成分下游传递发现,多重性信息可保持重加权能力,而形状响应即使后期重要也不必保留;喷注质量因素则因统计支持差而受限。该KAN框架提供了生成器依赖性的功能解剖,揭示了持续存在的结构与隐藏在单一分类器函数中的支持失败。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Differences between high-energy event generators can arise at several stages of the collision simulation, from the hard scattering through parton showering and hadronization to the final event. These differences are usually summarized using observable distributions or global classifier scores. While these quantify the disagreement, they do not reveal which observable-level structures carry it or whether those structures persist through different stages of event generation. In this work, we formulate this problem as a staged functional analysis of generator-model differences. Following the same hard dijet events through Pythia and Herwig at shower-only, hadronized, and full-generator levels, we use an additive Kolmogorov-Arnold network (KAN) representation of the classifier-derived log density ratio to decompose the learned discrepancy into explicit one-dimensional observable responses that can be isolated, recomposed, and transported between generator stages. Within the same eight-observable jet representation, the Pythia-Herwig difference is driven mainly by multiplicity at shower level, shifts toward jet mass and shape after hadronization, and develops a mixed shape-multiplicity driven structure in the full-generator configuration. Transporting the individual shower-level functional components downstream shows that shower-level multiplicity information can retain its reweighting power, whereas the corresponding shape responses need not do so even though shape becomes important again at later stages. The jet-mass factors, meanwhile, are limited by poor statistical support. This KAN-based framework therefore provides a functional anatomy of generator-model dependence, exposing both persistent structures and support failures that are hidden inside a single global classifier-derived reweighting function.
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