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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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Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has shown significant promise for uncovering sophisticated control policies that interact in complex environments, such as stabilizing a tokamak fusion reactor or minimizing the drag force on an object in a…

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Modeling atmospheric chemistry is computationally expensive and limits the widespread use of atmospheric chemical transport models. This computational cost arises from solving high-dimensional systems of stiff differential equations.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Xiaokai Yang , Lin Guo , Zhonghua Zheng , Nicole Riemer , Christopher W. Tessum

Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics (SINDy) is a powerful method for discovering parsimonious governing equations from data, but it often requires expert tuning of candidate libraries. We propose an LLM-aided SINDy pipeline that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Linyu Lin

Controlling systems with complex, nonlinear dynamics poses a significant challenge, particularly in achieving efficient and robust control. In this paper, we propose a Dyna-Style Reinforcement Learning control framework that integrates…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Karim Abdelsalam , Zeyad Gamal , Ayman El-Badawy

The sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy) has been established as an effective method to learn interpretable models of dynamical systems from data. However, for high-dimensional slow-fast dynamical systems, the regression…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Diemen Delgado-Cano , Erick Kracht , Urban Fasel , Benjamin Herrmann

Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics (SINDy) has been shown to successfully recover governing equations from data; however, this approach assumes the initial condition to be exactly known in advance and is sensitive to noise. In this…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Baolei Wei

High-fidelity simulation models are widely used to analyze complex stochastic systems, but their high computational cost motivates the development of cheaper surrogate models that approximate the simulation model's input-output…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-28 Mohammadmahdi Ghasemloo , David J. Eckman , Yaxian Li

Modern societies have an abundance of data yet good system models are rare. Unfortunately, many of the current system identification and machine learning techniques fail to generalize outside of the training set, producing models that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Gabriel F. Machado , Morgan Jones

We draw on the latest advancements in the physics community to propose a novel method for discovering the governing non-linear dynamics of physical systems in reinforcement learning (RL). We establish that this method is capable of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Rushiv Arora , Bruno Castro da Silva , Eliot Moss

Real-world reinforcement learning (RL) offers a promising approach to training precise and dexterous robotic manipulation policies in an online manner, enabling robots to learn from their own experience while gradually reducing human labor.…

Sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy) has been widely used to discover the governing equations of a dynamical system from data. It uses sparse regression techniques to identify parsimonious models of unknown systems from a…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-07 Kairui Ding

This work presents an interpretable parametric surrogate model motivated by the need to identify a hydrodynamic model for resolving the trajectory of an object in real-time. The surrogate is formulated as a reduced-order model for a…

Distilling physical laws autonomously from data has been of great interest in many scientific areas. The sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy) and its variations have been developed to extract the underlying governing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-08 Adam Purnomo , Mitsuhiro Hayashibe

The sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy) has been established as an effective technique to produce interpretable models of dynamical systems from time-resolved state data via sparse regression. However, to model parameterized…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Javier A. Lemus , Benjamin Herrmann

Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms allow artificial agents to improve their selection of actions to increase rewarding experiences in their environments. Temporal Difference (TD) Learning -- a model-free RL method -- is a leading…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Jacob Rafati , David C. Noelle

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is an area of machine learning concerned with enabling an agent to navigate an environment with uncertainty in order to maximize some notion of cumulative long-term reward. In this paper, we implement and analyze…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Soham Gadgil , Yunfeng Xin , Chengzhe Xu

In this paper, we propose Sparse Imitation Reinforcement Learning (SIRL), a hybrid end-to-end control policy that combines the sparse expert driving knowledge with reinforcement learning (RL) policy for autonomous driving (AD) task in CARLA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Yuci Han , Alper Yilmaz

Discovering governing equations of complex dynamical systems directly from data is a central problem in scientific machine learning. In recent years, the sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy) framework, powered by heuristic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Dimitris Bertsimas , Wes Gurnee

In this work we analyze the effectiveness of the Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics (SINDy) technique on three benchmark datasets for nonlinear identification, to provide a better understanding of its suitability when tackling real…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-04 Aurelio Raffa Ugolini , Valentina Breschi , Andrea Manzoni , Mara Tanelli
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