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arxiv: 2605.14783 · v1 · pith:5Z6LCVODnew · submitted 2026-05-14 · ✦ hep-ph

AI-Driven Discovery of Information-Efficient Collider Observables for Interference Measurements

Jiahui Lin , Yandong Liu This is my paper

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Symbolic evolution guided by matrix-element scores discovers compact analytic observables that capture substantially more local Fisher information about CP-violating interactions than standard angular baselines.

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The paper aims to establish that AI-driven symbolic evolution, using scores from matrix-element reweighting as the target, can identify compact analytic event-level observables for interference measurements. These observables are tested on the CP-sensitive HZ_{\mu\nu}\tilde Z^{\mu\nu} coupling in two channels: associated production e^+e^- \to Z(\to \mu^-\mu^+)H and the decay pp \to H \to ZZ^* \to e^-e^+\mu^-\mu^+. A sympathetic reader would care because the expressions remain simple enough for direct use while extracting more statistical information than conventional angular variables. The work shows that the learned forms recover helicity-interference harmonics, supplemented in one channel by laboratory-frame mappings and in the other by an angular kernel with a mass-ratio prefactor.

Core claim

By applying symbolic evolution to matrix-element reweighting scores, the method identifies observables for the HZ_{\mu\nu}\tilde Z^{\mu\nu} interaction that retain substantially more local Fisher information than angular baselines while remaining compact analytic functions in both associated production and four-lepton decay channels.

What carries the argument

The symbolic evolution procedure that treats the matrix-element score from reweighting as the statistical fitness target to evolve compact analytic expressions.

If this is right

  • In associated production the expressions supplement helicity-interference harmonics with laboratory-frame asymmetry mappings.
  • In four-lepton decay the angular kernel is the robust component while the mass-ratio factor acts as a bounded prefactor.
  • Optimal-observable design is recast as a symbolic discovery problem that yields transparent, interpretable probes.
  • The approach supplies a route to information-efficient observables for collider interference studies.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same guided symbolic search could be applied to other couplings where closed-form optimal observables are unavailable.
  • One could test retention of the information advantage by injecting the discovered expressions into existing analysis frameworks with realistic smearing.
  • The recovered harmonic structures might suggest new ways to classify interference terms across different processes.

Load-bearing premise

The symbolic evolution procedure guided only by the matrix-element score will converge to expressions that remain information-efficient once detector resolution, backgrounds, and higher-order corrections are included.

What would settle it

A direct numerical comparison, in full detector-level simulation including backgrounds and higher-order corrections, of the local Fisher information obtained from the learned observables versus standard angular baselines; reversal of the reported advantage would falsify the central claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.14783 by Jiahui Lin, Yandong Liu.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1. Schematic overview of the AI-driven symbolic-observable construction. A local score target derived from matrix [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: FIG. 2. Laboratory-frame energy asymmetry [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: shows this improvement directly: compared with O2 = sin(2ϕ ∗ ), the learned observable fext follows the score much more monotonically [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. Standard Model and signed interference distributions for [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. Standard Model and signed interference distributions [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_5.png] view at source ↗
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Optimal observables provide statistically powerful probes of small deformations from a reference theory, but in realistic collider measurements they are rarely available in compact analytic form. We show that interpretable event-level observables can be discovered by AI-driven symbolic evolution using score information from matrix-element reweighting as the statistical target. Focusing on the CP-sensitive interaction $HZ_{\mu\nu}\tilde Z^{\mu\nu}$, we study two complementary realizations of the same coupling structure: associated production $e^+e^-\to Z(\to \mu^-\mu^+)H$ and the decay channel $pp\to H\to ZZ^*\to e^-e^+\mu^-\mu^+$. The learned observables retain substantially more local Fisher information than standard angular baselines while remaining compact analytic functions. In both cases, the discovered expressions recover characteristic helicity-interference harmonics. In associated production these harmonics are supplemented by laboratory-frame asymmetry mappings, while in four-lepton decay the robust component is the angular kernel, with the mass-ratio factor serving as a bounded representative prefactor. These results recast optimal-observable design as a symbolic discovery problem and provide a transparent route to information-efficient, interpretable probes of collider interference.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper claims that AI-driven symbolic evolution, guided by matrix-element reweighting scores for the CP-sensitive HZ_{\mu\nu}\tilde Z^{\mu\nu} coupling, can discover compact analytic observables for e^+e^- \to ZH(\to \mu\mu) and H \to 4\ell that retain substantially more local Fisher information than standard angular baselines, recover helicity-interference harmonics, and remain interpretable; the method is demonstrated in associated production (with lab-frame asymmetries) and four-lepton decay (with angular kernels plus bounded mass-ratio prefactors).

Significance. If the information gains hold under realistic conditions, the work recasts optimal-observable construction as an automated symbolic search problem and supplies a transparent route to compact, high-information probes of interference effects; the explicit recovery of known harmonics plus supplementary structures is a concrete strength.

major comments (2)
  1. [Results (Fisher information comparisons)] The central claim that the discovered observables are substantially more information-efficient for collider measurements rests on Fisher comparisons performed exclusively at parton/truth level (see results sections on associated production and four-lepton decay). No folding with detector resolution, acceptance, backgrounds, or NLO corrections is described, so it remains untested whether the reported gains survive the conditions under which the observables would actually be used.
  2. [Methods (symbolic evolution procedure)] The symbolic evolution is optimized directly against the matrix-element score; while this avoids circularity in the reported numbers, the manuscript does not demonstrate that the resulting expressions remain optimal or even stable once the score is replaced by a realistic, detector-level likelihood or when higher-order corrections alter the interference structure.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Associated production results] Notation for the laboratory-frame mappings in the e^+e^- channel could be clarified with an explicit definition of the coordinate system used for the asymmetry terms.
  2. [Summary of discovered observables] The abstract states that the observables 'remain compact analytic functions,' but the manuscript would benefit from a short table listing the exact discovered expressions alongside their Fisher values for direct comparison with the angular baselines.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the careful reading and constructive feedback on the manuscript. We address the two major comments point by point below.

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  1. Referee: [Results (Fisher information comparisons)] The central claim that the discovered observables are substantially more information-efficient for collider measurements rests on Fisher comparisons performed exclusively at parton/truth level (see results sections on associated production and four-lepton decay). No folding with detector resolution, acceptance, backgrounds, or NLO corrections is described, so it remains untested whether the reported gains survive the conditions under which the observables would actually be used.

    Authors: We agree that the Fisher information comparisons are performed exclusively at parton level. This is a deliberate scope choice to isolate the information efficiency of the symbolically discovered observables using the matrix-element score as target, without confounding factors from experimental effects. The manuscript's core contribution is the automated discovery of compact analytic forms that outperform angular baselines at this level and recover known interference structures. We acknowledge that survival of the gains under detector resolution, acceptance, backgrounds, and NLO corrections remains untested. In the revised version we will add a paragraph in the Conclusions explicitly stating this limitation and identifying full detector-level validation as an important direction for follow-up work. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Methods (symbolic evolution procedure)] The symbolic evolution is optimized directly against the matrix-element score; while this avoids circularity in the reported numbers, the manuscript does not demonstrate that the resulting expressions remain optimal or even stable once the score is replaced by a realistic, detector-level likelihood or when higher-order corrections alter the interference structure.

    Authors: The direct optimization against the matrix-element reweighting score is the methodological point of the work: it supplies an unambiguous, circularity-free target for information efficiency at truth level. The resulting expressions are therefore optimal by construction within that well-defined setting. Demonstrating stability or re-optimality under a detector-level likelihood or NLO-altered interference would require an entirely separate campaign of full simulation and re-running the symbolic search, which lies outside the present scope. The paper presents a proof-of-principle that the symbolic-evolution approach can recover high-information, interpretable observables; we do not claim broader robustness at this stage. revision: no

Circularity Check

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No circularity in derivation chain; symbolic discovery uses external score target with independent Fisher evaluation

full rationale

The paper's core procedure applies symbolic evolution to discover compact observables guided by an external matrix-element reweighting score for the CP parameter, then performs separate Fisher information comparisons against angular baselines at parton level. This does not reduce the reported information gains to a fitted parameter inside the evolved expressions, a self-citation chain, or a self-definitional loop; the optimization target and the subsequent Fisher metric are distinct, and no load-bearing uniqueness theorem or ansatz is imported from prior author work. The derivation remains self-contained against the stated external benchmark.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The approach rests on the assumption that matrix-element reweighting supplies an accurate local score for Fisher information and that the symbolic search space is rich enough to contain near-optimal compact expressions.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Matrix-element reweighting yields a reliable statistical target for local Fisher information
    Used as the fitness function for symbolic evolution

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