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The simulation of viscoelastic time-evolution problems described by a large number of internal variables and with a large spectrum of relaxation times requires high computational resources for their resolution. Furthermore, the internal…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Sebastian Rodriguez , Angelo Pasquale , Jad Mounayer , Diego Canales , Marianne Beringhier , Chady Ghnatios , Amine Ammar , Francisco Chinesta

Learning-based control methods typically assume stationary system dynamics, an assumption often violated in real-world systems due to drift, wear, or changing operating conditions. We study reinforcement learning for control under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Klemens Iten , Bruce Lee , Chenhao Li , Lenart Treven , Andreas Krause , Bhavya Sukhija

Learning system dynamics from observations is a critical problem in many applications over various real-world complex systems, e.g., climate, ecology, and fluid systems. Recently, neural dynamics modeling method have become a prevalent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yiming Wang , Zhengnan Zhang , Genghe Zhang , Jiawen Dan , Changchun Li , Chenlong Hu , Chris Nugent , Jun Liu , Ximing Li , Bo Yang

Recent work has shown deep learning can accelerate the prediction of physical dynamics relative to numerical solvers. However, limited physical accuracy and an inability to generalize under distributional shift limit its applicability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Rui Wang , Robin Walters , Rose Yu

Differential equations are important mechanistic models that are integral to many scientific and engineering applications. With the abundance of available data there has been a growing interest in data-driven physics-informed models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Oliver Hamelijnck , Arno Solin , Theodoros Damoulas

Cloth folding is a widespread domestic task that is seemingly performed by humans but which is highly challenging for autonomous robots to execute due to the highly deformable nature of textiles; It is hard to engineer and learn…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Peng Zhou , Omar Zahra , Anqing Duan , Shengzeng Huo , Zeyu Wu , David Navarro-Alarcon

Body dynamics are crucial information for the analysis of human motions in important research fields, ranging from biomechanics, sports science to computer vision and graphics. Modern approaches collect the body dynamics, external reactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Cuong Le , Huy-Phuong Le , Duc Le , Minh-Thien Duong , Van-Binh Nguyen , My-Ha Le

Deformable object manipulation remains a challenging task in robotics research. Conventional techniques for parameter inference and state estimation typically rely on a precise definition of the state space and its dynamics. While this is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Rika Antonova , Jingyun Yang , Priya Sundaresan , Dieter Fox , Fabio Ramos , Jeannette Bohg

Two algorithms that combine Brownian dynamics (BD) simulations with mean-field partial differential equations (PDEs) are presented. This PDE-assisted Brownian dynamics (PBD) methodology provides exact particle tracking data in parts of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-06-27 Benjamin Franz , Mark B. Flegg , S. Jonathan Chapman , Radek Erban

Robotic manipulation of deformable objects is a difficult problem especially because of the complexity of the many different ways an object can deform. Searching such a high dimensional state space makes it difficult to recognize, track,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-18 Yinxiao Li , Yan Wang , Yonghao Yue , Danfei Xu , Michael Case , Shih-Fu Chang , Eitan Grinspun , Peter Allen

This paper introduces a data-driven time embedding method for modeling long-range seasonal dependencies in spatiotemporal forecasting tasks. The proposed approach employs Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) to extract temporal modes directly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Menglin Kong , Vincent Zhihao Zheng , Xudong Wang , Lijun Sun

We introduce a physics-informed neural framework for modeling static and time-dependent galactic gravitational potentials. The method combines data-driven learning with embedded physical constraints to capture complex, small-scale features…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-02 Charlotte Myers , Nathaniel Starkman , Lina Necib

Design optimization and uncertainty quantification, among other applications of industrial interest, require fast or multiple queries of some parametric model. The Proper Generalized Decomposition (PGD) provides a separable solution, a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-16 Pedro Diez , Sergio Zlotnik , Antonio Huerta

In this paper the exact analytical solution of the motion of a rigid body with arbitrary mass distribution is derived in the absence of forces or torques. The resulting expressions are cast into a form where the dependence of the motion on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-07-31 Ramses van Zon , Jeremy Schofield

While existing mathematical descriptions can accurately account for phenomena at microscopic scales (e.g. molecular dynamics), these are often high-dimensional, stochastic and their applicability over macroscopic time scales of physical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-08 P. S. Koutsourelakis , Elias Bilionis

The dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) has become a leading tool for data-driven modeling of dynamical systems, providing a regression framework for fitting linear dynamical models to time-series measurement data. We present a simple…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Travis Askham , J. Nathan Kutz

Physics-based simulation of mesh based domains remains a challenging task. State-of-the-art techniques can produce realistic results but require expert knowledge. A major bottleneck in many approaches is the step of integrating a potential…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Oshri Halimi , Egor Larionov , Zohar Barzelay , Philipp Herholz , Tuur Stuyck

This paper presents a generalizable methodology for data-driven identification of nonlinear dynamics that bounds the model error in terms of the prediction horizon and the magnitude of the derivatives of the system states. Using…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-03 Giorgos Mamakoukas , Maria L. Castano , Xiaobo Tan , Todd D. Murphey

$\textbf{This is the conference version of our paper: Spatiotemporal Implicit Neural Representation as a Generalized Traffic Data Learner}$. Spatiotemporal Traffic Data (STTD) measures the complex dynamical behaviors of the multiscale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Tong Nie , Guoyang Qin , Wei Ma , Jian Sun

Hybrid particle-field methods are computationally efficient approaches for modelling soft matter systems. So far applications of these methodologies have been limited to constant volume conditions. Here, we reformulate particle-field…