Aug 19–23, 2019
TRIUMF
Canada/Pacific timezone

Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs) for water Cherenkov detectors

Aug 23, 2019, 4:03 p.m.
18m
Auditorium (TRIUMF)

Auditorium

TRIUMF

4004 Wesbrook Mall
Data Science and Quantum Computing Workshop Data Science and Quantum Computing Workshop

Speaker

Mr Abhishek Kajal (TRIUMF/University of Manitoba)

Description

A Variational AutoEncoder (VAE) is a generative method used to approximate the probability distribution of processes in very high dimensional spaces. We apply VAEs for generative modelling of Water Cherenkov detectors which are used to perform precision measurements on neutrinos. In this talk, I will discuss the steps and challenges in applying VAEs to simulated neutrino events in the proposed Intermediate Water Cherenkov Detector (IWCD). Initial results from the project show promise in the application of VAEs for synthetic data generation and unsupervised learning from labelled and unlabelled datasets.

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