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Stability and safety are critical properties for successful deployment of automatic control systems. As a motivating example, consider autonomous mobile robot navigation in a complex environment. A control design that generalizes to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Zhichao Li , Thai Duong , Nikolay Atanasov

The combination of numerical integration and deep learning, i.e., ODE-net, has been successfully employed in a variety of applications. In this work, we introduce inverse modified differential equations (IMDE) to contribute to the behaviour…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Aiqing Zhu , Pengzhan Jin , Beibei Zhu , Yifa Tang

We propose an effective and lightweight learning algorithm, Symplectic Taylor Neural Networks (Taylor-nets), to conduct continuous, long-term predictions of a complex Hamiltonian dynamic system based on sparse, short-term observations. At…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Yunjin Tong , Shiying Xiong , Xingzhe He , Guanghan Pan , Bo Zhu

We consider the learning and prediction of nonlinear time series generated by a latent symplectic map. A special case is (not necessarily separable) Hamiltonian systems, whose solution flows give such symplectic maps. For this special case,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Renyi Chen , Molei Tao

Physics-informed deep learning has achieved remarkable progress by embedding geometric priors, such as Hamiltonian symmetries and variational principles, into neural networks, enabling structure-preserving models that extrapolate with high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Aristotelis Papatheodorou , Pranav Vaidhyanathan , Natalia Ares , Ioannis Havoutis

Learning models of dynamical systems with external inputs, which may be, for example, nonsmooth or piecewise, is crucial for studying complex phenomena and predicting future state evolution, which is essential for applications such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Zhaoyi Li , Wenjie Mei , Ke Yu , Yang Bai , Shihua Li

Hamiltonian systems lie at the heart of modeling the physical world. Their defining scalar, the Hamiltonian, encodes both energy conservation and symplectic geometry in its phase-space trajectories. Recent deep learning approaches model…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Joe Germany , Joseph Bakarji , Sara Najem

Existing neural network models to learn Hamiltonian systems, such as SympNets, although accurate in low-dimensions, struggle to learn the correct dynamics for high-dimensional many-body systems. Herein, we introduce Symplectic Graph Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Alan John Varghese , Zhen Zhang , George Em Karniadakis

A recently proposed class of models attempts to learn latent dynamics from high-dimensional observations, like images, using priors informed by Hamiltonian mechanics. While these models have important potential applications in areas like…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-12 Irina Higgins , Peter Wirnsberger , Andrew Jaegle , Aleksandar Botev

We propose a method for learning dynamical systems from high-dimensional empirical data that combines variational autoencoders and (spatio-)temporal attention within a framework designed to enforce certain scientifically-motivated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Kai Lagemann , Christian Lagemann , Sach Mukherjee

Scalable and generalizable physics-aware deep learning has long been considered a significant challenge with various applications across diverse domains ranging from robotics to molecular dynamics. Central to almost all physical systems are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Pranav Vaidhyanathan , Aristotelis Papatheodorou , Mark T. Mitchison , Natalia Ares , Ioannis Havoutis

This paper addresses the data-driven identification of latent dynamical representations of partially-observed systems, i.e., dynamical systems for which some components are never observed, with an emphasis on forecasting applications,…

Measurement data is often sampled irregularly, i.e., not on equidistant time grids. This is also true for Hamiltonian systems. However, existing machine learning methods, which learn symplectic integrators, such as SympNets [1] and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Konrad Janik , Peter Benner

With deep learning gaining attention from the research community for prediction and control of real physical systems, learning important representations is becoming now more than ever mandatory. It is of extreme importance that deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Saul Santos , Monica Ekal , Rodrigo Ventura

Accelerated gradient methods have had significant impact in machine learning -- in particular the theoretical side of machine learning -- due to their ability to achieve oracle lower bounds. But their heuristic construction has hindered…

Computation · Statistics 2018-02-16 Michael Betancourt , Michael I. Jordan , Ashia C. Wilson

We introduce an approach for imposing physically informed inductive biases in learned simulation models. We combine graph networks with a differentiable ordinary differential equation integrator as a mechanism for predicting future states,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Alvaro Sanchez-Gonzalez , Victor Bapst , Kyle Cranmer , Peter Battaglia

Many applications, such as optimization, uncertainty quantification and inverse problems, require repeatedly performing simulations of large-dimensional physical systems for different choices of parameters. This can be prohibitively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Benedikt Brantner , Michael Kraus

While Hamiltonian mechanics provides a powerful inductive bias for neural networks modeling dynamical systems, Hamiltonian Neural Networks and their variants often fail to capture complex temporal dynamics spanning multiple timescales. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yaojun Li , Yulong Yang , Christine Allen-Blanchette

Predicting the behaviors of Hamiltonian systems has been drawing increasing attention in scientific machine learning. However, the vast majority of the literature was focused on predicting separable Hamiltonian systems with their kinematic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Shiying Xiong , Yunjin Tong , Xingzhe He , Shuqi Yang , Cheng Yang , Bo Zhu

Many real-life applications involve controlling high-dimensional multi-agent systems in real-time. Existing optimal control solvers often suffer from the curse-of-dimensionality and require complete rerunning for each new problem setting.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Alan John Varghese , Shanqing Liu , Paula Chen , Yaochen Zhu , Jérôme Darbon , George Em Karniadakis