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Focusing on identification, this paper develops techniques to reconstruct zero and nonzero elements of a sparse parameter vector of a stochastic dynamic system under feedback control, for which the current input may depend on the past…

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Given a sample covariance matrix, we solve a maximum likelihood problem penalized by the number of nonzero coefficients in the inverse covariance matrix. Our objective is to find a sparse representation of the sample data and to highlight…

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Understanding how systems evolve over time often requires discovering the differential equations that govern their behavior. Automatically learning these equations from experimental data is challenging when the data are noisy or limited,…

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We propose and analyze an online algorithm for reconstructing a sequence of signals from a limited number of linear measurements. The signals are assumed sparse, with unknown support, and evolve over time according to a generic nonlinear…

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Parsimony, including sparsity and low rank, has been shown to successfully model data in numerous machine learning and signal processing tasks. Traditionally, such modeling approaches rely on an iterative algorithm that minimizes an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-18 Pablo Sprechmann , Alex M. Bronstein , Guillermo Sapiro

Macroscopic dynamical descriptions of complex physical systems are crucial for understanding and controlling material behavior. With the growing availability of data and compute, machine learning has become a promising alternative to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Mengyi Chen , Pengru Huang , Kostya S. Novoselov , Qianxiao Li

Compressed sensing allows perfect recovery of sparse signals (or signals sparse in some basis) using only a small number of random measurements. Existing results in compressed sensing literature have focused on characterizing the achievable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Dmitry Malioutov , Sujay Sanghavi , Alan Willsky

Species subject to predation and environmental threats commonly exhibit variable periods of population boom and bust over long timescales. Understanding and predicting such behavior, especially given the inherent heterogeneity and…

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Compressed sensing is a technique for recovering an unknown sparse signal from a small number of linear measurements. When the measurement matrix is random, the number of measurements required for perfect recovery exhibits a phase…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Mateo Díaz , Mauricio Junca , Felipe Rincón , Mauricio Velasco

In many data acquisition systems it is common to observe signals whose amplitudes have been clipped. We present two new algorithms for recovering a clipped signal by leveraging the model assumption that the underlying signal is sparse in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-25 Alejandro J. Weinstein , Michael B. Wakin

The value of unknown parameters of multibody systems is crucial for prediction, monitoring, and control, sometimes estimated using a biased physics-based model leading to incorrect outcomes. Discovering motion equations of multibody systems…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Ehsan Askari , Guillaume Crevecoeur

The process of discovering equations from data lies at the heart of physics and in many other areas of research, including mathematical ecology and epidemiology. Recently, machine learning methods known as symbolic regression emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Beatriz R. Brum , Luiza Lober , Isolde Previdelli , Francisco A. Rodrigues

Identifying differential operators from data is essential for the mathematical modeling of complex physical and biological systems where massive datasets are available. These operators must be stable for accurate predictions for dynamics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Aviral Prakash , Yongjie Jessica Zhang

Equation discovery is a fundamental learning task for uncovering the underlying dynamics of complex systems, with wide-ranging applications in areas such as brain connectivity analysis, climate modeling, gene regulation, and physical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Jiaqiang Li , Jianbin Tan , Xueqin Wang

Sparsity constraints on the control inputs of a linear dynamical system naturally arise in several practical applications such as networked control, computer vision, seismic signal processing, and cyber-physical systems. In this work, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Rupam Kalyan Chakraborty , Geethu Joseph , Chandra R. Murthy

In this paper we study the inference of the kinetic Ising model on sparse graphs by the decimation method. The decimation method, which was first proposed in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 070603] for the static inverse Ising problem, tries to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-06-30 Aurélien Decelle , Pan Zhang

The quasipotential function allows for comprehension and prediction of the escape mechanisms from metastable states in nonlinear dynamical systems. This function acts as a natural extension of the potential function for non-gradient systems…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Bo Lin , Pierpaolo Belardinelli

Recently, many reinforcement learning techniques were shown to have provable guarantees in the simple case of linear dynamics, especially in problems like linear quadratic regulators. However, in practice, many reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Abraham Frandsen , Rong Ge

Importance sampling of trajectories has proved a uniquely successful strategy for exploring rare dynamical behaviors of complex systems in an unbiased way. Carrying out this sampling, however, requires an ability to propose changes to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-01 Todd R. Gingrich , Phillip L. Geissler

Complex systems are ubiquitous in nature and engineering, but their analysis and control are hampered by their high dimensionality and the influence of various factors on their dynamics. Dimensionality reduction aims to find a…

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