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While conservation laws in gradient flow training dynamics are well understood for (mostly shallow) ReLU and linear networks, their study remains largely unexplored for more practical architectures. This paper bridges this gap by deriving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Sibylle Marcotte , Rémi Gribonval , Gabriel Peyré

The long-term dynamics of many dynamical systems evolve on an attracting, invariant "slow manifold" that can be parameterized by a few observable variables. Yet a simulation using the full model of the problem requires initial values for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. W. Gear , T. J. Kaper , I. G. Kevrekidis , A. Zagaris

We draw on the latest advancements in the physics community to propose a novel method for discovering the governing non-linear dynamics of physical systems in reinforcement learning (RL). We establish that this method is capable of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Rushiv Arora , Bruno Castro da Silva , Eliot Moss

Simulating and predicting dynamics of quantum many-body systems is extremely challenging, even for state-of-the-art computational methods, due to the spread of entanglement across the system. However, in the long-wavelength limit, quantum…

Uniform and smooth data collection is often infeasible in real-world scenarios. In this paper, we propose an identification framework to effectively handle the so-called non-uniform observations, i.e., data scenarios that include missing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Cesare Donati , Martina Mammarella , Fabrizio Dabbene , Carlo Novara , Constantino Lagoa

Scientific and engineering processes deliver massive high-dimensional data sets that are generated as non-linear transformations of an initial state and few process parameters. Mapping such data to a low-dimensional manifold facilitates…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-07 Frank Schoeneman , Varun Chandola , Nils Napp , Olga Wodo , Jaroslaw Zola

This paper presents a data-driven finite volume method for solving 1D and 2D hyperbolic partial differential equations. This work builds upon the prior research incorporating a data-driven finite-difference approximation of smooth solutions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Guillaume de Romémont , Florent Renac , Jorge Nunez , Francisco Chinesta

We introduce a data-driven method for learning the equations of motion of mechanical systems directly from position measurements, without requiring access to velocity data. This is particularly relevant in system identification tasks where…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Martine Dyring Hansen , Elena Celledoni , Benjamin Kwanen Tapley

This paper presents a novel non-linear model reduction method: Probabilistic Manifold Decomposition (PMD), which provides a powerful framework for constructing non-intrusive reduced-order models (ROMs) by embedding a high-dimensional system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Jiaming Guo , Dunhui Xiao

Invariant measures encode the long-time behaviour of a dynamical system. In this work, we propose an optimization-based method to discover invariant measures directly from data gathered from a system. Our method does not require an explicit…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Jason J. Bramburger , Giovanni Fantuzzi

Real-time computation of optimal control is a challenging problem and, to solve this difficulty, many frameworks proposed to use learning techniques to learn (possibly sub-optimal) controllers and enable their usage in an online fashion.…

Experimental sciences have come to depend heavily on our ability to organize and interpret high-dimensional datasets. Natural laws, conservation principles, and inter-dependencies among observed variables yield geometric structure, with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 Akshat Kumar , Mohan Sarovar

Understanding the dynamics of neural network parameters during training is one of the key challenges in building a theoretical foundation for deep learning. A central obstacle is that the motion of a network in high-dimensional parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Daniel Kunin , Javier Sagastuy-Brena , Surya Ganguli , Daniel L. K. Yamins , Hidenori Tanaka

Discovering nonlinear differential equations that describe system dynamics from empirical data is a fundamental challenge in contemporary science. Here, we propose a methodology to identify dynamical laws by integrating denoising techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Kevin Egan , Weizhen Li , Rui Carvalho

All physical laws are described as relationships between state variables that give a complete and non-redundant description of the relevant system dynamics. However, despite the prevalence of computing power and AI, the process of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Boyuan Chen , Kuang Huang , Sunand Raghupathi , Ishaan Chandratreya , Qiang Du , Hod Lipson

Learning dynamics from dissipative chaotic systems is notoriously difficult due to their inherent instability, as formalized by their positive Lyapunov exponents, which exponentially amplify errors in the learned dynamics. However, many of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yair Schiff , Zhong Yi Wan , Jeffrey B. Parker , Stephan Hoyer , Volodymyr Kuleshov , Fei Sha , Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez

We study an optimal transportation approach for recovering parameters in dynamical systems with a single smoothly varying attractor. We assume that the data is not sufficient for estimating time derivatives of state variables but enough to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Yunan Yang , Levon Nurbekyan , Elisa Negrini , Robert Martin , Mirjeta Pasha

A precondition for the deployment of a Reinforcement Learning agent to a real-world system is to provide guarantees on the learning process. While a learning algorithm will eventually converge to a good policy, there are no guarantees on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-27 Paul Daoudi , Mathias Formoso , Othman Gaizi , Achraf Azize , Evrard Garcelon

Motion prediction is critical for autonomous off-road driving, however, it presents significantly more challenges than on-road driving because of the complex interaction between the vehicle and the terrain. Traditional physics-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Zhipeng Zhao , Bowen Li , Yi Du , Taimeng Fu , Chen Wang

Dimensionless learning is a data-driven framework for discovering dimensionless numbers and scaling laws from experimental measurements. This tutorial introduces the method, explaining how it transforms experimental data into compact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Zhengtao Jake Gan , Xiaoyu Xie