Machine Learning Symmetry Discovery for Integrable Hamiltonian Dynamics
Abstract
We propose a data-driven Machine-Learning Symmetry Discovery (MLSD) framework for identifying continuous symmetry generators and their Lie-algebraic structure directly from phase-space trajectory data expressed in canonical coordinates. MLSD parameterizes candidate conserved quantities with neural networks and learns antisymmetric structure coefficients by enforcing Poisson-bracket closure, supplemented by a weak independence regularizer. We validate MLSD on two integrable benchmark systems -- the three-dimensional Kepler problem and the three-dimensional isotropic harmonic oscillator -- recovering the expected non-Abelian algebras (respectively and ) up to basis transformations. This work focuses on integrable benchmark dynamics, where global conserved quantities are well-defined and admit compact representations learnable from canonical-coordinate trajectories. Extending symmetry discovery to mixed or chaotic phase-space regimes is an important direction for future work.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2412.14632,
title = {Machine Learning Symmetry Discovery for Integrable Hamiltonian Dynamics},
author = {Wanda Hou and Molan Li and Yi-Zhuang You},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.14632},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
6 pages + references, 8 figures