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Why do neurons encode information the way they do? Normative answers to this question model neural activity as the solution to an optimisation problem; for example, the celebrated efficient coding hypothesis frames neural activity as the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-06 William Dorrell , Peter E. Latham , James Whittington

Neural networks can be fragile to input noise and adversarial attacks. In this work, we consider Convolutional Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs), a family of continuous-depth neural networks represented by dynamical systems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Muhammad Zakwan , Liang Xu , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

We present a computational technique for modeling the evolution of dynamical systems in a reduced basis, with a focus on the challenging problem of modeling partially-observed partial differential equations (PDEs) on high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-25 Victor Churchill

Neural ODE Processes approach the problem of meta-learning for dynamics using a latent variable model, which permits a flexible aggregation of contextual information. This flexibility is inherited from the Neural Process framework and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Ben Day , Alexander Norcliffe , Jacob Moss , Pietro Liò

In the context of high penetration of renewables, the need to build dynamic models of power system components based on accessible measurement data has become urgent. To address this challenge, firstly, a neural ordinary differential…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Tannan Xiao , Ying Chen , Shaowei Huang , Tirui He , Huizhe Guan

Existing neural operator architectures face challenges when solving multiphysics problems with coupled partial differential equations (PDEs) due to complex geometries, interactions between physical variables, and the limited amounts of…

Many physical systems exhibit a low-dimensional structure that varies with external parameters: link lengths in a robot, forcing constants in a fluid, or Reynolds numbers in a flow shift the underlying manifold while preserving its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jérôme Adriaens , Gustave Bainier , Guillaume Drion , Pierre Sacré

In this study, we propose parameter-varying neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs) where the evolution of model parameters is represented by partition-of-unity networks (POUNets), a mixture of experts architecture. The proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Kookjin Lee , Nathaniel Trask

Model reduction for fluid flow simulation continues to be of great interest across a number of scientific and engineering fields. Here, we explore the use of Neural Ordinary Differential Equations, a recently introduced family of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Sourav Dutta , Peter Rivera-Casillas , Matthew W. Farthing

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations model dynamical systems with ODEs learned by neural networks. However, ODEs are fundamentally inadequate to model systems with long-range dependencies or discontinuities, which are common in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Samuel Holt , Zhaozhi Qian , Mihaela van der Schaar

We present a hybrid transformer architecture that replaces discrete middle layers with a continuous-depth Neural Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) block, enabling inference-time control over generation attributes via a learned steering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Peter Jemley

Despite the promise of scientific machine learning (SciML) in combining data-driven techniques with mechanistic modeling, existing approaches for incorporating hard constraints in neural differential equations (NDEs) face significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Avik Pal , Alan Edelman , Christopher Rackauckas

The neural ordinary differential equation (ODE) framework has emerged as a powerful tool for developing accelerated surrogate models of complex physical systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). A popular approach for PDE…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-26 Ashish S. Nair , Shivam Barwey , Pinaki Pal , Jonathan F. MacArt , Troy Arcomano , Romit Maulik

Neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs) are geometric deep learning models based on dynamical systems and flows generated by vector fields on manifolds. Despite numerous successful applications, particularly within the flow matching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Per Åhag , Alexander Friedrich , Fredrik Ohlsson , Viktor Vigren Näslund

Fractional Differential Equations (FDEs) are essential tools for modelling complex systems in science and engineering. They extend the traditional concepts of differentiation and integration to non-integer orders, enabling a more precise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 C. Coelho , M. Fernanda P. Costa , L. L. Ferrás

Neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs) are an effective approach for data-driven modeling of dynamical systems arising from simulations and experiments. One of the major shortcomings of NODEs, especially when coupled with explicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Allen Alvarez Loya , Daniel A. Serino , J. W. Burby , Qi Tang

We use neural ordinary differential equations to formulate a variant of the Transformer that is depth-adaptive in the sense that an input-dependent number of time steps is taken by the ordinary differential equation solver. Our goal in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Aaron Baier-Reinio , Hans De Sterck

Neural ODEs (NODEs) have emerged as powerful tools for modeling time series data, offering the flexibility to adapt to varying input scales and capture complex dynamics. However, they face significant challenges: first, their reliance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Muhao Guo , Yang Weng

We investigate neural ordinary and stochastic differential equations (neural ODEs and SDEs) to model stochastic dynamics in fully and partially observed environments within a model-based reinforcement learning (RL) framework. Through a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Chao Han , Stefanos Ioannou , Luca Manneschi , T. J. Hayward , Michael Mangan , Aditya Gilra , Eleni Vasilaki

While the neural ODE formulation of normalizing flows such as in FFJORD enables us to calculate the determinants of free form Jacobians in O(D) time, the flexibility of the transformation underlying neural ODEs has been shown to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Etrit Haxholli , Marco Lorenzi