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Governing equations are essential to the study of nonlinear dynamics, often enabling the prediction of previously unseen behaviors as well as the inclusion into control strategies. The discovery of governing equations from data thus has the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Alejandro Carderera , Sebastian Pokutta , Christof Schütte , Martin Weiser

Machine learning for scientific applications faces the challenge of limited data. We propose a framework that leverages a priori known physics to reduce overfitting when training on relatively small datasets. A deep neural network is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Jonathan B. Freund , Jonathan F. MacArt , Justin Sirignano

Usually, the systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) are discovered from observational data in the single vector equation form. However, this approach restricts the application to the real cases, where, for example, the form of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Mikhail Maslyaev , Alexander Hvatov

Process mining offers techniques to exploit event data by providing insights and recommendations to improve business processes. The growing amount of algorithms for process discovery has raised the question of which algorithms perform best…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Toon Jouck , Alfredo Bolt , Benoît Depaire , Massimiliano de Leoni , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

The data-driven discovery of interpretable models approximating the underlying dynamics of a physical system has gained attraction in the past decade. Current approaches employ pre-specified functional forms or basis functions and often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Rahul Golder , M. M. Faruque Hasan

Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics (SINDy) is a method of system discovery that has been shown to successfully recover governing dynamical systems from data (Brunton et al., PNAS, '16; Rudy et al., Sci. Adv. '17). Recently, several…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Daniel A. Messenger , David M. Bortz

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

Robust physics (e.g., governing equations and laws) discovery is of great interest for many engineering fields and explainable machine learning. A critical challenge compared with general training is that the term and format of governing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-15 Zhiming Zhang , Yongming Liu

The SINDy algorithm has been successfully used to identify the governing equations of dynamical systems from time series data. In this paper, we argue that this makes SINDy a potentially useful tool for causal discovery and that existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Andrew O'Brien , Rosina Weber , Edward Kim

The understanding and modeling of complex physical phenomena through dynamical systems has historically driven scientific progress, as it provides the tools for predicting the behavior of different systems under diverse conditions through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Karin L. Yu , Eleni Chatzi , Georgios Kissas

Reinforcement learning algorithms are defined by their learning update rules, which are typically hand-designed and fixed. We present an evolutionary framework for discovering reinforcement learning algorithms by searching directly over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Alkis Sygkounas , Amy Loutfi , Andreas Persson

Harnessing data to discover the underlying governing laws or equations that describe the behavior of complex physical systems can significantly advance our modeling, simulation and understanding of such systems in various science and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Zhao Chen , Yang Liu , Hao Sun

Data-driven discovery of partial differential equations (PDEs) has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Although significant progress has been made, certain unresolved issues remain. For example, for PDEs with high-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Hao Xu , Dongxiao Zhang , Nanzhe Wang

An evolution strategy (ES) variant based on a simplification of a natural evolution strategy recently attracted attention because it performs surprisingly well in challenging deep reinforcement learning domains. It searches for neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Joel Lehman , Jay Chen , Jeff Clune , Kenneth O. Stanley

The discovery of equations with knowledge of the process origin is a tempting prospect. However, most equation discovery tools rely on gradient methods, which offer limited control over parameters. An alternative approach is the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Elizaveta Ivanchik , Alexander Hvatov

The discovery of conservation laws is a cornerstone of scientific progress. However, identifying these invariants from observational data remains a significant challenge. We propose a hybrid framework to automate the discovery of conserved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Vivan Doshi

We develop the theory of Energy Conserving Descent (ECD) and introduce ECDSep, a gradient-based optimization algorithm able to tackle convex and non-convex optimization problems. The method is based on the novel ECD framework of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 G. Bruno De Luca , Alice Gatti , Eva Silverstein

We present a genetic algorithm framework for automatically discovering deep learning optimization algorithms. Our approach encodes optimizers as genomes that specify combinations of primitive update terms (gradient, momentum, RMS…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Mitchell Marfinetz

Evolution Strategies (ES) are effective gradient-free optimization methods that can be competitive with gradient-based approaches for policy search. ES only rely on the total episodic scores of solutions in their population, from which they…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Paul Templier , Luca Grillotti , Emmanuel Rachelson , Dennis G. Wilson , Antoine Cully

Discovering the governing equations of dynamical systems is a central problem across many scientific disciplines. As experimental data become increasingly available, automated equation discovery methods offer a promising data-driven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Amirmohammad Ziaei Bideh , Jonathan Gryak