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Neural ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are an emerging class of deep learning models for dynamical systems. They are particularly useful for learning an ODE vector field from observed trajectories (i.e., inverse problems). We here…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Katharina Ott , Michael Tiemann , Philipp Hennig

Neural operators have emerged as powerful tools for learning solution operators of partial differential equations. However, in time-dependent problems, standard training strategies such as teacher forcing introduce a mismatch between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Zaijun Ye , Chen-Song Zhang , Wansheng Wang

We introduce a practical method to enforce partial differential equation (PDE) constraints for functions defined by neural networks (NNs), with a high degree of accuracy and up to a desired tolerance. We develop a differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Geoffrey Négiar , Michael W. Mahoney , Aditi S. Krishnapriyan

Neural differential equations offer a powerful approach for learning dynamics from data. However, they do not impose known constraints that should be obeyed by the learned model. It is well-known that enforcing constraints in surrogate…

This paper studies the design of neural network (NN)-based controllers for unknown nonlinear systems, using contraction analysis. A Neural Ordinary Differential Equation (NODE) system is constructed by approximating the unknown draft…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Hao Yin , Claudio De Persis , Bayu Jayawardhana , Santiago Sanchez Escalonilla Plaza

In this chapter, we utilize dynamical systems to analyze several aspects of machine learning algorithms. As an expository contribution we demonstrate how to re-formulate a wide variety of challenges from deep neural networks, (stochastic)…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Dennis Chemnitz , Maximilian Engel , Christian Kuehn , Sara-Viola Kuntz

We analyze Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs) from a control theoretical perspective to address some of the main properties and paradigms of Deep Learning (DL), in particular, data classification and universal approximation.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Domènec Ruiz-Balet , Enrique Zuazua

In recent years, nonlinear dynamic system identification using artificial neural networks has garnered attention due to its broad potential applications across science and engineering. However, purely data-driven approaches often struggle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Fabian J. Roth , Dominik K. Klein , Maximilian Kannapinn , Jan Peters , Oliver Weeger

Neural ODEs (NODEs) have emerged as powerful tools for modeling time series data, offering the flexibility to adapt to varying input scales and capture complex dynamics. However, they face significant challenges: first, their reliance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Muhao Guo , Yang Weng

A recent strategy to circumvent the exploding and vanishing gradient problem in RNNs, and to allow the stable propagation of signals over long time scales, is to constrain recurrent connectivity matrices to be orthogonal or unitary. This…

Neural differential equations predict the derivative of a stochastic process. This allows irregular forecasting with arbitrary time-steps. However, the expressive temporal flexibility often comes with a high sensitivity to noise. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Stav Belogolovsky , Ido Greenberg , Danny Eitan , Shie Mannor

In this work, we investigate a method for simulation-free training of Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs) for learning deterministic mappings between paired data. Despite the analogy of NODEs as continuous-depth residual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Semin Kim , Jaehoon Yoo , Jinwoo Kim , Yeonwoo Cha , Saehoon Kim , Seunghoon Hong

Model reduction for fluid flow simulation continues to be of great interest across a number of scientific and engineering fields. In a previous work [arXiv:2104.13962], we explored the use of Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODE) as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Sourav Dutta , Peter Rivera-Casillas , Orie M. Cecil , Matthew W. Farthing , Emma Perracchione , Mario Putti

Neural operators have emerged as promising surrogate models for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), but struggle to generalise beyond training distributions and are often constrained to a fixed temporal discretisation. This work…

This paper addresses the training of Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (neural ODEs), and in particular explores the interplay between numerical integration techniques, stability regions, step size, and initialization techniques. It is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Theodor Westny , Arman Mohammadi , Daniel Jung , Erik Frisk

Recently, there has been growing interest in using physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to solve differential equations. However, the preservation of structure, such as energy and stability, in a suitable manner has yet to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Haoyu Chu , Yuto Miyatake , Wenjun Cui , Shikui Wei , Daisuke Furihata

Recent work in deep learning focuses on solving physical systems in the Ordinary Differential Equation or Partial Differential Equation. This current work proposed a variant of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) that can learn the hidden…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Mansura Habiba , Barak A. Pearlmutter

Stiff systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) arise in a wide range of scientific and engineering disciplines and are traditionally solved using implicit integration methods due to their stability and efficiency. However, these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Colby Fronk , Linda Petzold

Despite the promise of scientific machine learning (SciML) in combining data-driven techniques with mechanistic modeling, existing approaches for incorporating hard constraints in neural differential equations (NDEs) face significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Avik Pal , Alan Edelman , Christopher Rackauckas

With the shift towards decentralized energy generation, the increasing complexity of power systems renders physics-based modeling challenging. At the same time the growing amount of available measurement data opens the door for obtaining…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Hannes M. H. Wolf , Christian A. Hans