Quantum-Inspired Tensor Network Autoencoders for Anomaly Detection: A MERA-Based Approach
We investigate whether a multiscale tensor-network architecture can provide a useful inductive bias for reconstruction-based anomaly detection in collider jets. Jets are produced by a branching cascade, so their internal structure is naturally organised across angular and momentum scales. This motivates an autoencoder that compresses information hierarchically and can reorganise short-range correlations before coarse-graining. Guided by this picture, we formulate a MERA-inspired autoencoder acting directly on ordered jet constituents. To the best of our knowledge, a MERA-inspired autoencoder has not previously been proposed, and this architecture has not been explored in collider anomaly detection. We compare this architecture to a dense autoencoder, the corresponding tree-tensor-network limit, and standard classical baselines within a common background-only reconstruction framework. The paper is organised around two main questions: whether locality-aware hierarchical compression is genuinely supported by the data, and whether the disentangling layers of MERA contribute beyond a simpler tree hierarchy. To address these questions, we combine benchmark comparisons with a training-free local-compressibility diagnostic and a direct identity-disentangler ablation. The resulting picture is that the locality-preserving multiscale structure is well matched to jet data, and that the MERA disentanglers become beneficial precisely when the compression bottleneck is strongest. Overall, the study supports locality-aware hierarchical compression as a useful inductive bias for jet anomaly detection.
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