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To improve the physical understanding and the predictions of complex dynamic systems, such as ocean dynamics and weather predictions, it is of paramount interest to identify interpretable models from coarsely and off-grid sampled…

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Recent work has shown deep learning can accelerate the prediction of physical dynamics relative to numerical solvers. However, limited physical accuracy and an inability to generalize under distributional shift limit its applicability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Rui Wang , Robin Walters , Rose Yu

We investigate how symmetries present in datasets affect the structure of the latent space learned by Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). By training VAEs on data originating from simple mechanical systems and particle collisions, we analyze…

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Most common mechanistic models are traditionally presented in mathematical forms to explain a given physical phenomenon. Machine learning algorithms, on the other hand, provide a mechanism to map the input data to output without explicitly…

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Automated scientific discovery aims to improve scientific understanding through machine learning. A central approach in this field is symbolic regression, which uses genetic programming or sparse regression to learn interpretable…

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Data driven discovery of partial differential equations (PDEs) is a promising approach for uncovering the underlying laws governing complex systems. However, purely data driven techniques face the dilemma of balancing search space with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Hao Xu , Yuntian Chen , Rui Cao , Tianning Tang , Mengge Du , Jian Li , Adrian H. Callaghan , Dongxiao Zhang

The data-driven recovery of the unknown governing equations of dynamical systems has recently received an increasing interest. However, the identification of governing equations remains challenging when dealing with noisy and partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Duong Nguyen , Said Ouala , Lucas Drumetz , Ronan Fablet

Many chemical engineering systems are governed by mechanisms that switch across operating regimes, making the data-driven discovery of regime-dependent governing equations essential for predictive modeling, optimization, and control. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Ilias Mitrai , Tongjia Liu , Gabriel E. Sanoja

Accurately modelling the dynamics of complex systems and discovering their governing differential equations are critical tasks for accelerating scientific discovery. Using noisy, synthetic data from two damped oscillatory systems, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Panayiotis Ioannou , Pietro Liò , Pietro Cicuta

Deriving governing equations in Electromagnetic (EM) environment based on first principles can be quite tough when there are some unknown sources of noise and other uncertainties in the system. For nonlinear multiple-physics electromagnetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-31 Bing Xiong , Haiyang Fu , Feng Xu , Yaqiu Jin

The problem of identifying geometric structure in data is a cornerstone of (unsupervised) learning. As a result, Geometric Representation Learning has been widely applied across scientific and engineering domains. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Imran Nasim , Melanie Weber

We show a data-driven approach to discover the underlying structural form of the mathematical equation governing the dynamics of multiple but similar systems induced by the same mechanisms. This approach hinges on theories that we lay out…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Changwei Loh , Daniel Schneegass , Pengwei Tian

The Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics (SINDy) framework is a robust method for identifying governing equations, successfully applied to ordinary, partial, and stochastic differential equations. In this work we extend SINDy to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Alessandro Pecile , Nicola Demo , Marco Tezzele , Gianluigi Rozza , Dimitri Breda

Identifying from observation data the governing differential equations of a physical dynamics is a key challenge in machine learning. Although approaches based on SINDy have shown great promise in this area, they still fail to address a…

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Differential-algebraic equations (DAEs) integrate ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with algebraic constraints, providing a fundamental framework for developing models of dynamical systems characterized by timescale separation,…

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Incorporating a priori physics knowledge into machine learning leads to more robust and interpretable algorithms. In this work, we combine deep learning techniques and classic numerical methods for differential equations to address two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Caitlin Ho , Andrea Arnold

The discovery of governing equations from data has been an active field of research for decades. One widely used methodology for this purpose is sparse regression for nonlinear dynamics, known as SINDy. Despite several attempts, noisy and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Ali Forootani , Pawan Goyal , Peter Benner

In applications of nonlinear and complex dynamical systems, a common situation is that the system can be measured but its structure and the detailed rules of dynamical evolution are unknown. The inverse problem is to determine the system…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Ying-Cheng Lai

Theoretical studies have shown that stochasticity can affect the dynamics of ecosystems in counter-intuitive ways. However, without knowing the equations governing the dynamics of populations or ecosystems, it is difficult to ascertain the…

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Numerical simulation of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) can be challenging when the system exhibits high accelerations and rapidly changing dynamics. Under these conditions the ODE solver often needs to take very small time steps in…

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