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In this paper, we address the challenge of deriving dynamical models from sparse and noisy data. High-quality data is crucial for symbolic regression algorithms; limited and noisy data can present modeling challenges. To overcome this, we…

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Capturing the microscopic interactions that determine molecular reactivity poses a challenge across the physical sciences. Even a basic understanding of the underlying reaction mechanisms can substantially accelerate materials and compound…

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In this document, some general results in approximation theory and matrix analysis with applications to sparse identification of time series models and nonlinear discrete-time dynamical systems are presented. The aforementioned theoretical…

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