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We introduce a new family of deep neural network models. Instead of specifying a discrete sequence of hidden layers, we parameterize the derivative of the hidden state using a neural network. The output of the network is computed using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Ricky T. Q. Chen , Yulia Rubanova , Jesse Bettencourt , David Duvenaud

Many successful methods to learn dynamical systems from data have recently been introduced. However, ensuring that the inferred dynamics preserve known constraints, such as conservation laws or restrictions on the allowed system states,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Alistair White , Niki Kilbertus , Maximilian Gelbrecht , Niklas Boers

OD matrix estimation is a critical problem in the transportation domain. The principle method uses the traffic sensor measured information such as traffic counts to estimate the traffic demand represented by the OD matrix. The problem is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Zheli Xiong , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen , Gang Chen , Xiaomin Cheng

Poverty is a complex dynamic challenge that cannot be adequately captured using predefined differential equations. Nowadays, artificial machine learning (ML) methods have demonstrated significant potential in modelling real-world dynamical…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Sandeep Kumar Samota , Snehashish Chakraverty , Narayan Sethi

Differential equations are widely used to describe complex dynamical systems with evolving parameters in nature and engineering. Effectively learning a family of maps from the parameter function to the system dynamics is of great…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Xin Li , Chengli Zhao , Xue Zhang , Xiaojun Duan

Modeling complex systems using standard neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs) often faces some essential challenges, including high computational costs and susceptibility to local optima. To address these challenges, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Xin Li , Jingdong Zhang , Qunxi Zhu , Chengli Zhao , Xue Zhang , Xiaojun Duan , Wei Lin

Neural networks (NNs) are known to exhibit simplicity bias where they tend to prefer learning 'simple' features over more 'complex' ones, even when the latter may be more informative. Simplicity bias can lead to the model making biased…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Bhavya Vasudeva , Kameron Shahabi , Vatsal Sharan

It has been observed that residual networks can be viewed as the explicit Euler discretization of an Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE). This observation motivated the introduction of so-called Neural ODEs, which allow more general…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Tianjun Zhang , Zhewei Yao , Amir Gholami , Kurt Keutzer , Joseph Gonzalez , George Biros , Michael Mahoney

Neural ODEs demonstrate strong performance in generative and time-series modelling. However, training them via the adjoint method is slow compared to discrete models due to the requirement of numerically solving ODEs. To speed neural ODEs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Alexander Norcliffe , Marc Peter Deisenroth

A computed approximation of the solution operator to a system of partial differential equations (PDEs) is needed in various areas of science and engineering. Neural operators have been shown to be quite effective at predicting these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zan Ahmad , Shiyi Chen , Minglang Yin , Avisha Kumar , Nicolas Charon , Natalia Trayanova , Mauro Maggioni

The inverse problem of supervised reconstruction of depth-variable (time-dependent) parameters in a neural ordinary differential equation (NODE) is considered, that means finding the weights of a residual network with time continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-14 George Baravdish , Gabriel Eilertsen , Rym Jaroudi , B. Tomas Johansson , Lukáš Malý , Jonas Unger

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs) probed the usage of numerical solvers to solve the differential equation characterized by a Neural Network (NN), therefore initiating a new paradigm of deep learning models with infinite depth.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Vishal Purohit

By interpreting the forward dynamics of the latent representation of neural networks as an ordinary differential equation, Neural Ordinary Differential Equation (Neural ODE) emerged as an effective framework for modeling a system dynamics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Daehoon Gwak , Gyuhyeon Sim , Michael Poli , Stefano Massaroli , Jaegul Choo , Edward Choi

Forecasting time series and time-dependent data is a common problem in many applications. One typical example is solving ordinary differential equation (ODE) systems $\dot{x}=F(x)$. Oftentimes the right hand side function $F(x)$ is not…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-14 Artem Chashchin , Mikhail Botchev , Ivan Oseledets , George Ovchinnikov

A neural ordinary differential equation (neural ODE) is a machine learning model that is commonly described as a continuous-depth generalization of a residual network (ResNet) with a single residual block, or conversely, the ResNet can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Abdelrahman Sayed Sayed , Pierre-Jean Meyer , Mohamed Ghazel

Neural networks have shown significant potential in solving partial differential equations (PDEs). While deep networks are capable of approximating complex functions, direct one-shot training often faces limitations in both accuracy and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Mingxing Weng , Zhiping Mao , Jie Shen

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) have been successful in various applications due to their continuous nature and parameter-sharing efficiency. However, these unique characteristics also introduce challenges in training,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Tianxiang Gao , Siyuan Sun , Hailiang Liu , Hongyang Gao

Stiff ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are common in many science and engineering fields, but standard neural ODE approaches struggle to accurately learn these stiff systems, posing a significant barrier to widespread adoption of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Colby Fronk , Linda Petzold

Learning continuous-time dynamics on complex networks is crucial for understanding, predicting and controlling complex systems in science and engineering. However, this task is very challenging due to the combinatorial complexities in the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Chengxi Zang , Fei Wang

Neural networks are discrete entities: subdivided into discrete layers and parametrized by weights which are iteratively optimized via difference equations. Recent work proposes networks with layer outputs which are no longer quantized but…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Stefano Massaroli , Michael Poli , Federico Califano , Angela Faragasso , Jinkyoo Park , Atsushi Yamashita , Hajime Asama