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Dynamical systems governed by ordinary differential equations (ODEs) serve as models for a vast number of natural and social phenomena. In this work, we offer a fresh perspective on the classical problem of imputing missing time series…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Patrick Seifner , Kostadin Cvejoski , Antonia Körner , Ramsés J. Sánchez

Trajectory optimization methods have achieved an exceptional level of performance on real-world robots in recent years. These methods heavily rely on accurate analytical models of the dynamics, yet some aspects of the physical world can…

The iterations of many first-order algorithms, when applied to minimizing common regularized regression functions, often resemble neural network layers with pre-specified weights. This observation has prompted the development of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Hao He , Bo Xin , David Wipf

In this paper, we implement Neural Ordinary Differential Equations in a Variational Autoencoder setting for generative time series modeling. An object-oriented approach to the code was taken to allow for easier development and research and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-14 M. L. Garsdal , V. Søgaard , S. M. Sørensen

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) represent a significant advancement at the intersection of machine learning and dynamical systems, offering a continuous-time analog to discrete neural networks. Despite their promise, deploying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Matteo Caldana , Jan S. Hesthaven

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

In this paper, we propose a novel few-shot learning framework for multi-robot systems that integrate both spatial and temporal elements: Few-Shot Demonstration-Driven Task Coordination and Trajectory Execution (DDACE). Our approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Taehyeon Kim , Vishnunandan L. N. Venkatesh , Byung-Cheol Min

In this paper, we address the adversarial training of neural ODEs from a robust control perspective. This is an alternative to the classical training via empirical risk minimization, and it is widely used to enforce reliable outcomes for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Cristina Cipriani , Alessandro Scagliotti , Tobias Wöhrer

In many fields of application, dynamic processes that evolve through time are well described by systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The analytical solution of the ODEs is often not available and different methods have been…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-07-19 Saverio Ranciati , Cinzia Viroli , Ernst Wit

The multi-modality and stochastic characteristics of human behavior make motion prediction a highly challenging task, which is critical for autonomous driving. While deep learning approaches have demonstrated their great potential in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Xiaqiang Tang , Weigao Sun , Siyuan Hu , Yiyang Sun , Yafeng Guo

We propose a new class of parameterizations for spatio-temporal point processes which leverage Neural ODEs as a computational method and enable flexible, high-fidelity models of discrete events that are localized in continuous time and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Ricky T. Q. Chen , Brandon Amos , Maximilian Nickel

Deep ensembles have emerged as a powerful technique for improving predictive performance and enhancing model robustness across various applications by leveraging model diversity. However, traditional deep ensemble methods are often…

We introduce a dynamic sparse training algorithm based on linearized Bregman iterations / mirror descent that exploits the naturally incurred sparsity by alternating between periods of static and dynamic sparsity pattern updates. The key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yannick Lunk , Sebastian J. Scott , Leon Bungert

The learning rate schedule is one of the most impactful aspects of neural network optimization, yet most schedules either follow simple parametric functions or react only to short-term training signals. None of them are supported by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Matt L. Sampson , Peter Melchior

Sequential-in-time methods solve a sequence of training problems to fit nonlinear parametrizations such as neural networks to approximate solution trajectories of partial differential equations over time. This work shows that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Huan Zhang , Yifan Chen , Eric Vanden-Eijnden , Benjamin Peherstorfer

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (N-ODEs) are a powerful building block for learning systems, which extend residual networks to a continuous-time dynamical system. We propose a Bayesian version of N-ODEs that enables well-calibrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Andreas Look , Melih Kandemir

The Path-dependent Neural Jump ODE (PD-NJ-ODE) is a model for online prediction of generic (possibly non-Markovian) stochastic processes with irregular (in time) and potentially incomplete (with respect to coordinates) observations. It is a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-29 Florian Krach , Josef Teichmann

We propose a new method to ensure neural ordinary differential equations (ODEs) satisfy output specifications by using invariance set propagation. Our approach uses a class of control barrier functions to transform output specifications…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Wei Xiao , Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Ramin Hasani , Mathias Lechner , Yutong Ban , Chuang Gan , Daniela Rus

This paper proposes a sparse Bayesian treatment of deep neural networks (DNNs) for system identification. Although DNNs show impressive approximation ability in various fields, several challenges still exist for system identification…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-02 Hongpeng Zhou , Chahine Ibrahim , Wei Xing Zheng , Wei Pan

We propose a novel approach for training Physics-enhanced Neural ODEs (PeN-ODEs) by expressing the training process as a dynamic optimization problem. The full model, including neural components, is discretized using a high-order implicit…

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