Pith. sign in

REVIEW 3 cited by

Unsupervised in-distribution anomaly detection of new physics through conditional density estimation

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv 2012.11638 v1 pith:YFRY3467 submitted 2020-12-21 cs.LG hep-exphysics.data-an

classification cs.LGhep-exphysics.data-an
keywords detectiondensityanomalyblindconditionalin-distributionmethodolympics
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal

Signed reviews

No signed human review yet.

0 comments
read the original abstract

Anomaly detection is a key application of machine learning, but is generally focused on the detection of outlying samples in the low probability density regions of data. Here we instead present and motivate a method for unsupervised in-distribution anomaly detection using a conditional density estimator, designed to find unique, yet completely unknown, sets of samples residing in high probability density regions. We apply this method towards the detection of new physics in simulated Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle collisions as part of the 2020 LHC Olympics blind challenge, and show how we detected a new particle appearing in only 0.08% of 1 million collision events. The results we present are our original blind submission to the 2020 LHC Olympics, where it achieved the state-of-the-art performance.

Discussion (0). Continue with ORCID to comment.

Forward citations

Cited by 3 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score. Full citation record

  1. Multi-scale Optimal Transport for Complete Collider Events

    hep-ph 2025-01 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

    A hierarchical optimal transport distance, built by measuring events as distributions of jets whose shapes are measured by optimal transport, improves classification of simulated LHC events.

  2. Graph theory inspired anomaly detection at the LHC

    hep-ph 2025-06 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    Sparse globally rigid graph representations of jets, combined with roughly 30 reclustered subjets, improve graph autoencoder anomaly detection on the LHC Olympics benchmark.

  3. Optimal Transport Event Representation for Anomaly Detection

    hep-ph 2025-12 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

    Adding a few optimal-transport-based features to standard jet observables nearly doubles anomaly-detection significance at 0.5% signal injection on LHC Olympics benchmarks.

Pith tools