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We propose a novel data-driven method called QENDy (Quadratic Embedding of Nonlinear Dynamics) that not only allows us to learn quadratic representations of highly nonlinear dynamical systems, but also to identify the governing equations.…

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We present a weak formulation and discretization of the system discovery problem from noisy measurement data. This method of learning differential equations from data fits into a new class of algorithms that replace pointwise derivative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Daniel A. Messenger , David M. Bortz

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

Discovering governing equations from observational data remains a fundamental challenge in scientific modeling, particularly when the underlying mathematical structure is unknown. Traditional sparse identification methods like SINDy excel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Mohammad Amin Basiri , Charles Nicholson

Sparse model identification enables the discovery of nonlinear dynamical systems purely from data; however, this approach is sensitive to noise, especially in the low-data limit. In this work, we leverage the statistical approach of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Urban Fasel , J. Nathan Kutz , Bingni W. Brunton , Steven L. Brunton

Modern societies have an abundance of data yet good system models are rare. Unfortunately, many of the current system identification and machine learning techniques fail to generalize outside of the training set, producing models that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Gabriel F. Machado , Morgan Jones

The explicit governing equation is one of the simplest and most intuitive forms for characterizing physical laws. However, directly discovering partial differential equations (PDEs) from data poses significant challenges, primarily in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Lexiang Hu , Yikang Li , Zhouchen Lin

The moment quantities associated with the nonlinear Schrodinger equation offer important insights towards the evolution dynamics of such dispersive wave partial differential equation (PDE) models. The effective dynamics of the moment…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-06-10 Su Yang , Shaoxuan Chen , Wei Zhu , P. G. Kevrekidis

Governing equations are essential to the study of nonlinear dynamics, often enabling the prediction of previously unseen behaviors as well as the inclusion into control strategies. The discovery of governing equations from data thus has the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Alejandro Carderera , Sebastian Pokutta , Christof Schütte , Martin Weiser

The growing integration of renewable energy sources has significantly reduced grid inertia, making modern power systems more vulnerable to instabilities. Accurate estimation of dynamic parameters such as inertia constants and damping…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Aiman Mushtaq Purra , Danish Rafiq

Despite the recent proliferation of machine learning methods like SINDy that promise automatic discovery of governing equations from time-series data, there remain significant challenges to discovering models from noisy datasets. One reason…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-01 Lloyd Fung

Identifying the governing equations of a dynamical system is one of the most important tasks for scientific modeling. However, this procedure often requires high-quality spatio-temporal data uniformly sampled on structured grids. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Mars Liyao Gao , J. Nathan Kutz , Bernat Font

Identifying dynamical systems characterized by nonlinear parameters presents significant challenges in deriving mathematical models that enhance understanding of physics. Traditional methods, such as Sparse Identification of Nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Siva Viknesh , Younes Tatari , Chase Christenson , Amirhossein Arzani

In differential equation discovery algorithms, numerical differentiation is usually a fixed preliminary step. Current methods improve robustness with data subsampling and sparsity but often ignore the variability from the differentiation…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Maria Khilchuk , Ilya Markov , Alexander Hvatov

Model parsimony is an important \emph{cognitive bias} in data-driven modelling that aids interpretability and helps to prevent over-fitting. Sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy) methods are able to learn sparse…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-26 Max D. Champneys , Timothy J. Rogers

We propose a probabilistic model discovery method for identifying ordinary differential equations (ODEs) governing the dynamics of observed multivariate data. Our method is based on the sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy)…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Seth M. Hirsh , David A. Barajas-Solano , J. Nathan Kutz

Big data has become a critically enabling component of emerging mathematical methods aimed at the automated discovery of dynamical systems, where first principles modeling may be intractable. However, in many engineering systems, abrupt…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-08-01 Markus Quade , Markus Abel , J. Nathan Kutz , Steven L. Brunton

Differential equations and numerical methods are extensively used to model various real-world phenomena in science and engineering. With modern developments, we aim to find the underlying differential equation from a single observation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Roy Y. He , Hao Liu , Wenjing Liao , Sung Ha Kang

Identifying governing equations from data is a critical step in the modeling and control of complex dynamical systems. Here, we investigate the data-driven identification of nonlinear dynamical systems with inputs and forcing using…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Steven L. Brunton , Joshua L. Proctor , J. Nathan Kutz

Research in modern data-driven dynamical systems is typically focused on the three key challenges of high dimensionality, unknown dynamics, and nonlinearity. The dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) has emerged as a cornerstone for modeling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-27 Peter J. Baddoo , Benjamin Herrmann , Beverley J. McKeon , Steven L. Brunton