Lantern: Conflict-Aware Gradient Blending for Physics-Guided Diffusion Models in Calorimeter Simulation
arXiv:2607.25060v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Monte Carlo simulation of calorimeter showers is a principal bottleneck for the High-Luminosity LHC, and diffusion models have emerged as fast, high-fidelity surrogates. Their denoising objective is purely statistical, however: a model can minimize i