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Sparse system identification is the data-driven process of obtaining parsimonious differential equations that describe the evolution of a dynamical system, balancing model complexity and accuracy. There has been rapid innovation in system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Alan A. Kaptanoglu , Lanyue Zhang , Zachary G. Nicolaou , Urban Fasel , Steven L. Brunton

Data-driven discovery of governing equations has kindled significant interests in many science and engineering areas. Existing studies primarily focus on uncovering equations that govern nonlinear dynamics based on direct measurement of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Zitong Zhang , Yang Liu , Hao Sun

We consider the problem of forecasting complex, nonlinear space-time processes when observations provide only partial information of on the system's state. We propose a natural data-driven framework, where the system's dynamics are modelled…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Ibrahim Ayed , Emmanuel de Bézenac , Arthur Pajot , Julien Brajard , Patrick Gallinari

Simulating and predicting dynamics of quantum many-body systems is extremely challenging, even for state-of-the-art computational methods, due to the spread of entanglement across the system. However, in the long-wavelength limit, quantum…

Nonlinear dynamics is a pervasive phenomenon observed in scientific and engineering disciplines. However, the task of deriving analytical expressions to describe nonlinear dynamics from limited data remains challenging. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Zhongyi Jiang , Chunmei Wang , Haizhao Yang

We show how a complete mathematical description of a complicated physical phenomenon can be learned from observational data via a hybrid approach combining three simple and general ingredients: physical assumptions of smoothness, locality,…

The data-driven discovery of dynamics via machine learning is currently pushing the frontiers of modeling and control efforts, and it provides a tremendous opportunity to extend the reach of model predictive control. However, many leading…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Eurika Kaiser , J. Nathan Kutz , Steven L. Brunton

Stochastic processes offer a flexible mathematical formalism to model and reason about systems. Most analysis tools, however, start from the premises that models are fully specified, so that any parameters controlling the system's dynamics…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Luca Bortolussi , Guido Sanguinetti

Governing equations are fundamental for describing and predicting dynamic urban geographic systems. Unlike physical systems guided by first principles, urban spatiotemporal phenomena emerge from coupled geographic processes that lack…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-23 Zhongfu Ma , Di Zhu

Mathematical models for complex systems are often accompanied with uncertainties. The goal of this paper is to extract a stochastic differential equation governing model with observation on stationary probability distributions. We develop a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Xiaoli Chen , Hui Wang , Jinqiao Duan

PDE discovery shows promise for uncovering predictive models of complex physical systems but has difficulty when measurements are sparse and noisy. We introduce a new approach for PDE discovery that uses two Rational Neural Networks and a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Robert Stephany , Christopher Earls

How can we learn the laws underlying the dynamics of stochastic systems when their trajectories are sampled sparsely in time? Existing methods either require temporally resolved high-frequency observations, or rely on geometric arguments…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Dimitra Maoutsa

Robust physics discovery is of great interest for many scientific and engineering fields. Inspired by the principle that a representative model is the one simplest possible, a new model selection criteria considering both model's Parsimony…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Zhiming Zhang , Yongming Liu

We investigate the approximate dynamics of several differential equations when the solutions are restricted to a sparse subset of a given basis. The restriction is enforced at every time step by simply applying soft thresholding to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Hayden Schaeffer , Stanley Osher , Russel Caflisch , Cory Hauck

Machine learning has become a powerful tool for discovering governing laws of dynamical systems from data. However, most existing approaches degrade severely when observations are sparse, noisy, or irregularly sampled. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Vedanta Thapar , Abhinav Gupta

Structural monitoring for complex built environments often suffers from mismatch between design, laboratory testing, and actual built parameters. Additionally, real-world structural identification problems encounter many challenges. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Xuyang Li , Hamed Bolandi , Talal Salem , Nizar Lajnef , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

Discovering the partial differential equations underlying spatio-temporal datasets from very limited and highly noisy observations is of paramount interest in many scientific fields. However, it remains an open question to know when model…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-06 Georges Tod , Gert-Jan Both , Remy Kusters

We address the problem of learning the dynamics of an unknown non-parametric system linking a target and a feature time series. The feature time series is measured on a sparse and irregular grid, while we have access to only a few points of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-01 Linus Bleistein , Adeline Fermanian , Anne-Sophie Jannot , Agathe Guilloux

In recent years, data-driven methods have been developed to learn dynamical systems and partial differential equations (PDE). The goal of such work is discovering unknown physics and the corresponding equations. However, prior to achieving…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-17 Hao Xu , Haibin Chang , Dongxiao Zhang

The analysis of high-dimensional dynamical systems generally requires the integration of simulation data with experimental measurements. Experimental data often has substantial amounts of measurement noise that compromises the ability to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Samuel Rudy , Steven Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz