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The project of physics discovery is often equivalent to finding the most concise description of a physical system. The description with optimum predictive capability for a dataset generated by a physical system is one that minimizes both…

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In this paper, we give an in-depth error analysis for surrogate models generated by a variant of the Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics (SINDy) method. We start with an overview of a variety of non-linear system identification…

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Discovering interpretable physical laws from high-dimensional data is a fundamental challenge in scientific research. Traditional methods, such as symbolic regression, often produce complex, unphysical formulas when searching a vast space…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Yifeng Guan , Chuyi Liu , Dongzhan Zhou , Lei Bai , Wan-jian Yin , Jingyuan Li , Mao Su

In this paper we introduce a new method based on a library of chemical reactions for constructing a system of ordinary differential equations from stochastic simulations arising from an agent-based model. The advantage of this approach is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Pamela M. Burrage , Hasitha N. Weerasinghe , Kevin Burrage

There have been growing interests in leveraging experimental measurements to discover the underlying partial differential equations (PDEs) that govern complex physical phenomena. Although past research attempts have achieved great success…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Chengping Rao , Pu Ren , Yang Liu , Hao Sun

Discovering hidden physical laws and identifying governing system parameters from sparse observations are central challenges in computational science and engineering. Existing data-driven methods, such as physics-informed neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Dibakar Roy Sarkar , Vijay Kag , Birupaksha Pal , Somdatta Goswami

Modeling real-world spatio-temporal data is exceptionally difficult due to inherent high dimensionality, measurement noise, partial observations, and often expensive data collection procedures. In this paper, we present Sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Mars Liyao Gao , Jan P. Williams , J. Nathan Kutz

The accurate modelling of structural dynamics is crucial across numerous engineering applications, such as Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), seismic analysis, and vibration control. Often, these models originate from physics-based…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Marcus Haywood-Alexander , Giacomo Arcieri , Antonios Kamariotis , Eleni Chatzi

Deep neural networks (DNN) have been used to model nonlinear relations between physical quantities. Those DNNs are embedded in physical systems described by partial differential equations (PDE) and trained by minimizing a loss function that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Kailai Xu , Eric Darve

Data-driven discovery of governing equations from data remains a fundamental challenge in nonlinear dynamics. Although sparse regression techniques have advanced system identification, they struggle with rational functions and noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Zitong Zhang , Hao Sun

This work introduces a novel methodology to derive physical scalings for input features from data. The approach developed in this article relies on the maximization of mutual information to derive optimal nonlinear combinations of input…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Samir Beneddine

In recent years there has been a push to discover the governing equations dynamical systems directly from measurements of the state, often motivated by systems that are too complex to directly model. Although there has been substantial work…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Jeffrey M. Hokanson , Gianluca Iaccarino , Alireza Doostan

Identifying accurate dynamic models is required for the simulation and control of various technical systems. In many important real-world applications, however, the two main modeling approaches often fail to meet requirements: first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Manuel A. Roehrl , Thomas A. Runkler , Veronika Brandtstetter , Michel Tokic , Stefan Obermayer

This paper deals with the error processing problem of sparse identification of nonlinear dynamical systems(SINDy) through introducing the $L_\infty$ approximation to take place of the former $L_2$ approximation. The motivation is that the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-09 Yuqiang Wu

The industrialization of catalytic processes requires reliable kinetic models for their design, optimization and control. Mechanistic models require significant domain knowledge, while data-driven and hybrid models lack interpretability.…

Modeling complex spatiotemporal dynamics, particularly in far-from-equilibrium systems, remains a grand challenge in science. The governing partial differential equations (PDEs) for these systems are often intractable to derive from first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Xizhe Wang , Xiaobin Song , Qingshan Jia , Hao Sun , Hongbo Zhao , Benben Jiang

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

A complete understanding of physical systems requires models that are accurate and obeys natural conservation laws. Recent trends in representation learning involve learning Lagrangian from data rather than the direct discovery of governing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-10 Tapas Tripura , Souvik Chakraborty

Dimensionless numbers and scaling laws provide elegant insights into the characteristic properties of physical systems. Classical dimensional analysis and similitude theory fail to identify a set of unique dimensionless numbers for a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-28 Xiaoyu Xie , Wing Kam Liu , Zhengtao Gan

Supervised machine learning involves approximating an unknown functional relationship from a limited dataset of features and corresponding labels. The classical approach to feature-based machine learning typically relies on applying linear…

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