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Transformer-Accelerated Interpolated Data-Driven Reachability Analysis from Noisy Data

Systems and Control 2026-04-03 v1 Systems and Control

Abstract

Data-driven reachability analysis provides guaranteed outer approximations of reachable sets from input-state measurements, yet each propagation step requires a matrix-zonotope multiplication whose cost grows with the horizon length, limiting scalability. We observe that data-driven propagation is inherently step-size sensitive, in the sense that set-valued operators at different discretization resolutions yield non-equivalent reachable sets at the same physical time, a property absent in model-based propagation. Exploiting this multi-resolution structure, we propose Interpolated Reachability Analysis (IRA), which computes a sparse chain of coarse anchor sets sequentially and reconstructs fine-resolution intermediate sets in parallel across coarse intervals. We derive a fully data-driven coarse-noise over-approximation that removes the need for continuous-time system knowledge, prove deterministic outer-approximation guarantees for all interpolated sets, and establish conditional tightness relative to the fine-resolution chain. To replace the remaining matrix-zonotope multiplications in the fine phase, we further develop Transformer-Accelerated IRA (TA-IRA), where an encoder-decoder Transformer is calibrated via split conformal prediction to provide finite-sample pointwise and path-wise coverage certificates. Numerical experiments on a five-dimensional linear system confirm the theoretical guarantees and demonstrate significant computational savings.

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@article{arxiv.2604.02157,
  title  = {Transformer-Accelerated Interpolated Data-Driven Reachability Analysis from Noisy Data},
  author = {Zhen Zhang and Ahmad Hafez and Peng Xie and Yanliang Huang and Wenyuan Wu and Amr Alanwar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.02157},
  year   = {2026}
}
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