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Learning Stable and Passive Neural Differential Equations

Systems and Control 2024-12-11 v2 Machine Learning Systems and Control

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a novel class of neural differential equation, which are intrinsically Lyapunov stable, exponentially stable or passive. We take a recently proposed Polyak Lojasiewicz network (PLNet) as an Lyapunov function and then parameterize the vector field as the descent directions of the Lyapunov function. The resulting models have a same structure as the general Hamiltonian dynamics, where the Hamiltonian is lower- and upper-bounded by quadratic functions. Moreover, it is also positive definite w.r.t. either a known or learnable equilibrium. We illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed model on a damped double pendulum system.

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@article{arxiv.2404.12554,
  title  = {Learning Stable and Passive Neural Differential Equations},
  author = {Jing Cheng and Ruigang Wang and Ian R. Manchester},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.12554},
  year   = {2024}
}
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