arxiv有doi吗_深度神经网络可从振荡时间序列中恢复未知的物理参数

Deep Neural Networks to Recover Unknown Physical Parameters from Oscillating Time Series

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely used in pattern-recognition tasks for

which a human comprehensible, quantitative description of the data-generating

process, e.g., in the form of equations, cannot be achieved. While doing so,

DNNs often produce an abstract (entangled and non-interpretable) representation

of the data-generating process. This is one of the reasons why DNNs are not

extensively used in physics-signal processing: physicists generally require

their analyses to yield quantitative information about the studied systems. In

this article we use DNNs to disentangle components of oscillating time series,

and recover meaningful information. We show that, because DNNs can find useful

abstract feature representations, they can be used when prior knowledge about

the signal-generating process exists, but is not complete, as it is

particularly the case in "new-physics" searches. To this aim, we train our DNN

on synthetic oscillating time series to perform two tasks: a regression of the

signal latent parameters and signal denoising by an Autoencoder-like

architecture. We show that the regression and denoising performance is similar

to those of least-square curve fittings (LS-fit) with true latent parameters'

initial guesses, in spite of the DNN needing no initial guesses at all. We then

explore applications in which we believe our architecture could prove useful

for time-series processing in physics, when prior knowledge is incomplete. As

an example, we employ DNNs as a tool to inform LS-fits when initial guesses are

unknown. We show that the regression can be performed on some latent

parameters, while ignoring the existence of others. Because the Autoencoder

needs no prior information about the physical model, the remaining unknown

latent parameters can still be captured, thus making use of partial prior

knowledge, while leaving space for data exploration and discoveries.