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Koopman operator, as a fully linear representation of nonlinear dynamical systems, if well-defined on a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS), can be efficiently learned from data. For stability analysis and control-related problems, it…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Wentao Tang , Xiuzhen Ye

Koopman analysis provides a general framework from which to analyze a nonlinear dynamical system in terms of a linear operator acting on an infinite-dimensional observable space. This theoretical framework provides a rigorous underpinning…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Dan Wilson

The theory of Koopman operators allows to deploy non-parametric machine learning algorithms to predict and analyze complex dynamical systems. Estimators such as principal component regression (PCR) or reduced rank regression (RRR) in kernel…

We consider the classical dynamics given by a one sided shift on the Bernoulli space of $d$ symbols. We study, on the space of H\"older functions, the eigendistributions of the Ruelle operator with a given potential. Our main theorem shows…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Paolo Giulietti , Artur O. Lopes , Vincent Pit

The Koopman operator, as a linear representation of a nonlinear dynamical system, has been attracting attention in many fields of science. Recently, Koopman operator theory has been combined with another concept that is popular in data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Septimus Boshoff , Sebastian Peitz , Stefan Klus

Motivated by the surge of interest in Koopman operator theory, we propose a machine-learning alternative based on a functional Bayesian perspective for operator-theoretic modeling of unknown, data-driven, nonlinear dynamical systems. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Kan Li , José C. Príncipe

Data-driven spectral analysis of Koopman operators is a powerful tool for understanding numerous real-world dynamical systems, from neuronal activity to variations in sea surface temperature. The Koopman operator acts on a function space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Nicolas Boullé , Matthew J. Colbrook , Gustav Conradie

Nonlinearity presents a significant challenge in problems involving dynamical systems, prompting the exploration of various linearization techniques, including the well-known Carleman Linearization. In this paper, we introduce the Koopman…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Dongwei Shi , Xiu Yang

Spectral decomposition of the Koopman operator is attracting attention as a tool for the analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems. Dynamic mode decomposition is a popular numerical algorithm for Koopman spectral analysis; however, we often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Naoya Takeishi , Yoshinobu Kawahara , Takehisa Yairi

In this paper, we study how the Koopman operator framework can be combined with kernel methods to effectively control nonlinear dynamical systems. While kernel methods have typically large computational requirements, we show how random…

This paper presents a novel learning framework to construct Koopman eigenfunctions for unknown, nonlinear dynamics using data gathered from experiments. The learning framework can extract spectral information from the full nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-19 Carl Folkestad , Daniel Pastor , Igor Mezic , Ryan Mohr , Maria Fonoberova , Joel Burdick

Nonlinear differential equations are encountered as models of fluid flow, spiking neurons, and many other systems of interest in the real world. Common features of these systems are that their behaviors are difficult to describe exactly and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Zexin Sun , Mingyu Chen , John Baillieul

Transfer and Koopman operator methods offer a framework for representing complex, nonlinear dynamical systems via linear transformations, enabling a deeper understanding of the underlying dynamics. The spectra of these operators provide…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Gary Froyland , Kevin Kühl

Recent advances in representation learning reveal that widely used objectives, such as contrastive and non-contrastive, implicitly perform spectral decomposition of a contextual kernel, induced by the relationship between inputs and their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Burak Varıcı , Che-Ping Tsai , Ritabrata Ray , Nicholas M. Boffi , Pradeep Ravikumar

Koopman operators and transfer operators represent dynamical systems through their induced linear action on vector spaces of observables, enabling the use of operator-theoretic techniques to analyze nonlinear dynamics in state space. The…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-06-10 Claire Valva , Dimitrios Giannakis

This paper presents a study of the Koopman operator theory and its application to optimal control of a multi-robot system. The Koopman operator, while operating on a set of observation functions of the state vector of a nonlinear system,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Gang Tao , Qianhong Zhao

Finding an embedding space for a linear approximation of a nonlinear dynamical system enables efficient system identification and control synthesis. The Koopman operator theory lays the foundation for identifying the nonlinear-to-linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Yunzhu Li , Hao He , Jiajun Wu , Dina Katabi , Antonio Torralba

For continuous-time dynamical systems with reversible trajectories, the nowhere-vanishing eigenfunctions of the Koopman operator of the system form a multiplicative group. Here, we exploit this property to accelerate the systematic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Zahra Monfared , Saksham Malhotra , Sekiya Hajime , Ioannis Kevrekidis , Felix Dietrich

Transfer operators such as the Perron--Frobenius or Koopman operator play an important role in the global analysis of complex dynamical systems. The eigenfunctions of these operators can be used to detect metastable sets, to project the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Stefan Klus , Ingmar Schuster , Krikamol Muandet

The Koopman operator provides an infinite-dimensional linear description of nonlinear dynamical systems that can be leveraged in the context of stability analysis. In particular, Lyapunov functions can be obtained in a systematic way via…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-01 François-Grégoire Bierwart , Alexandre Mauroy