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In designing efficient feedback control laws for fluid flow, the modern control theory can serve as a powerful tool if the model can be represented by a linear ordinary differential equation (ODE). However, it is generally difficult to find…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-16 Hiroshi Omichi , Takeru Ishize , Koji Fukagata

In this paper we present a continuation method which transforms spatially distributed ODE systems into continuous PDE. We show that this continuation can be performed both for linear and nonlinear systems, including multidimensional, space-…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Denis Nikitin , Carlos Canudas-de-Wit , Paolo Frasca

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

Stiff systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are pervasive in many science and engineering fields, yet standard neural ODE approaches struggle to learn them. This limitation is the main barrier to the widespread adoption of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Colby Fronk , Linda Petzold

Deep generative models such as flow matching and diffusion models have shown great potential in learning complex distributions and dynamical systems, but often act as black-boxes, neglecting underlying physics. In contrast, physics-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Gurjeet Sangra Singh , Frantzeska Lavda , Giangiacomo Mercatali , Alexandros Kalousis

We present a new microscopic ODE-based model for pedestrian dynamics: the Gradient Navigation Model. The model uses a superposition of gradients of distance functions to directly change the direction of the velocity vector. The velocity is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-06-11 Felix Dietrich , Gerta Köster

Optimal control problems naturally arise in many scientific applications where one wishes to steer a dynamical system from a certain initial state $\mathbf{x}_0$ to a desired target state $\mathbf{x}^*$ in finite time $T$. Recent advances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Lucas Böttcher , Thomas Asikis

Modeling neural population dynamics is crucial for foundational neuroscientific research and various clinical applications. Conventional latent variable methods typically model continuous brain dynamics through discretizing time with…

The slow iterative sampling nature remains a major bottleneck for the practical deployment of diffusion and flow-based generative models. While consistency models (CMs) represent a state-of-the-art distillation-based approach for efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Linwei Dong , Ruoyu Guo , Ge Bai , Zehuan Yuan , Yawei Luo , Changqing Zou

Modeling dynamical systems is crucial across the science and engineering fields for accurate prediction, control, and decision-making. Recently, machine learning (ML) approaches, particularly neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs),…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Fatima Al-Janahi , Min-Seung Ko , Hao Zhu

The advent of large-scale neural recordings has enabled new methods to discover the computational mechanisms of neural circuits by understanding the rules that govern how their state evolves over time. While these \textit{neural dynamics}…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-13 Christopher Versteeg , Andrew R. Sedler , Jonathan D. McCart , Chethan Pandarinath

We propose a novel second-order optimization framework for training the emerging deep continuous-time models, specifically the Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (Neural ODEs). Since their training already involves expensive gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Guan-Horng Liu , Tianrong Chen , Evangelos A. Theodorou

In recent years, increasingly large models have achieved outstanding performance across CV tasks. However, these models demand substantial computational resources and storage, and their growing complexity limits our understanding of how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Carlos Boned Riera , David Romero Sanchez , Oriol Ramos Terrades

Neural operator surrogates for time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) conventionally employ autoregressive prediction schemes, which accumulate error over long rollouts and require uniform temporal discretization. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Xianglong Hou , Xinquan Huang , Paris Perdikaris

Deep Equilibrium Models (DEQs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm in deep learning, offering the ability to model infinite-depth networks with constant memory usage. However, DEQs incur significant inference latency due to the iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Junchao Lin , Zenan Ling , Jingwen Xu , Robert C. Qiu

In this paper, we propose an iterative training algorithm for Neural ODEs that provides models resilient to control (parameter) disturbances. The method builds on our earlier work Tuning without Forgetting-and similarly introduces training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Erkan Bayram , Mohamed-Ali Belabbas , Tamer Başar

Many real-world systems, such as moving planets, can be considered as multi-agent dynamic systems, where objects interact with each other and co-evolve along with the time. Such dynamics is usually difficult to capture, and understanding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Zijie Huang , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang

We present a representation learning algorithm that learns a low-dimensional latent dynamical system from high-dimensional \textit{sequential} raw data, e.g., video. The framework builds upon recent advances in amortized inference methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Jung-Su Ha , Young-Jin Park , Hyeok-Joo Chae , Soon-Seo Park , Han-Lim Choi

Forward invariance is a long-studied property in control theory that is used to certify that a dynamical system stays within some pre-specified set of states for all time, and also admits robustness guarantees (e.g., the certificate holds…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Yujia Huang , Ivan Dario Jimenez Rodriguez , Huan Zhang , Yuanyuan Shi , Yisong Yue

Residual connections are central to modern deep neural networks, enabling stable optimization and efficient information flow across depth. In this work, we propose SCORE (Skip-Connection ODE Recurrent Embedding), a discrete recurrent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Guillaume Godin