English
Related papers

Related papers: On the Initialization of Nonlinear LFR Model Ident…

200 papers

Multivariable parametric models are essential for optimizing the performance of high-tech systems. The main objective of this paper is to develop an identification strategy that provides accurate parametric models for complex multivariable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 M. van der Hulst , R. A. González , K. Classens , P. Tacx , N. Dirkx , J. van de Wijdeven , T. Oomen

Practical identifiability is a critical concern in data-driven modeling of mathematical systems. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for practical identifiability analysis to evaluate parameter identifiability in mathematical models…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-06 Shun Wang , Wenrui Hao

We propose a novel low-rank initialization framework for training low-rank deep neural networks -- networks where the weight parameters are re-parameterized by products of two low-rank matrices. The most successful prior existing approach,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Kiran Vodrahalli , Rakesh Shivanna , Maheswaran Sathiamoorthy , Sagar Jain , Ed H. Chi

In this paper we address the challenging problem of designing globally convergent estimators for the parameters of nonlinear systems containing a non-separable exponential nonlinearity. This class of terms appears in many practical…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Romeo Ortega , Alexey Bobtsov , Ramon Costa-Castello , Nikolay Nikolaev

Many scientific and engineering applications require fitting regression models that are nonlinear in the parameters. Advances in computer hardware and software in recent decades have made it easier to fit such models. Relative to fitting…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-20 Peng Liu , William Q. Meeker

It has been recognized that using time-varying initialization functions to solve the initial value problem of fractional-order systems (FOS) is both complex and essential in defining the dynamical behavior of the states of FOSs. In this…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-10-19 Mohamed A. Bahloul , Zehor Belkhatir , Taous-Meriem laleg-Kirati

The goal of this article is twofold. Firstly, nonlinear system identification is introduced to a wide audience, guiding practicing engineers and newcomers in the field to a sound solution of their data driven modeling problems for nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Johan Schoukens , Lennart Ljung

This article presents an identification methodology to capture general relationships, with application to piecewise nonlinear approximations of model predictive control for constrained (non)linear systems. The mathematical formulation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-06 Van-Vuong Trinh , Mazen Alamir , Patrick Bonnay

Block-oriented nonlinear models are popular in nonlinear modeling because of their advantages to be quite simple to understand and easy to use. To increase the flexibility of single branch block-oriented models, such as Hammerstein, Wiener,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Maarten Schoukens , Anna Marconato , Rik Pintelon , Gerd Vandersteen , Yves Rolain

Physically interpretable models are essential for next-generation industrial systems, as these representations enable effective control, support design validation, and provide a foundation for monitoring strategies. The aim of this paper is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Maarten van der Hulst , Rodrigo A. González , Koen Classens , Paul Tacx , Nick Dirkx , Jeroen van de Wijdeven , Tom Oomen

We consider federated learning of linearly-parameterized nonlinear systems. We establish theoretical guarantees on the effectiveness of federated nonlinear system identification compared to centralized approaches, demonstrating that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Omkar Tupe , Max Hartman , Lav R. Varshney , Saurav Prakash

In system identification, estimating parameters of a model using limited observations results in poor identifiability. To cope with this issue, we propose a new method to simultaneously select and estimate sensitive parameters as key model…

Latent feature models (LFM)s are widely employed for extracting latent structures of data. While offering high, parameter estimation is difficult with LFMs because of the combinational nature of latent features, and non-identifiability is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Ryota Suzuki , Shingo Takahashi , Murtuza Petladwala , Shigeru Kohmoto

Neural network architectures designed for function parameterization, such as the Bag-of-Functions (BoF) framework, bridge the gap between the expressivity of deep learning and the interpretability of classical signal processing. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 David Orlando Salazar Torres , Diyar Altinses , Andreas Schwung

We address the problem of learning linear system models from observing multiple trajectories from different system dynamics. This framework encompasses a collaborative scenario where several systems seeking to estimate their dynamics are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Leonardo F. Toso , Han Wang , James Anderson

Topology optimization (TO) can be viewed as seeking an optimal solution in the design space of a given TO problem. For weakly non-linear TO problems, e.g., compliance minimization, sensitivity-based methods typically converge well, whereas…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Ziliang Wang , Jiahua Wu , Jun Yang , Shintaro Yamasaki

Learning the unknown causal parameters of a linear structural causal model is a fundamental task in causal analysis. The task, known as the problem of identification, asks to estimate the parameters of the model from a combination of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Julian Dörfler , Benito van der Zander , Markus Bläser , Maciej Liskiewicz

In this paper we propose a novel approach to identify dynamical systems. The method estimates the model structure and the parameters of the model simultaneously, automating the critical decisions involved in identification such as model…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Dhruv Khandelwal , Maarten Schoukens , Roland Tóth

This paper presents a data-integrated framework for learning the dynamics of fractional-order nonlinear systems in both discrete-time and continuous-time settings. The proposed framework consists of two main steps. In the first step,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Bahram Yaghooti , Chengyu Li , Bruno Sinopoli

We consider the reduction of parametric families of linear dynamical systems having an affine parameter dependence that differ from one another by a low-rank variation in the state matrix. Usual approaches for parametric model reduction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-25 Christopher Beattie , Serkan Gugercin , Zoran Tomljanovic