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Identifying latent state representations and dynamics is essential when direct modeling in observation space is infeasible, particularly under partial and high-dimensional observations. In such settings, representation learning and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Peilun Li , Kaiyuan Tan , Daniel Moyer , Thomas Beckers

Developing foundational world models is a key research direction for embodied intelligence, with the ability to adapt to non-stationary environments being a crucial criterion. In this work, we introduce a new formalism, Hidden…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Emiliyan Gospodinov , Vaisakh Shaj , Philipp Becker , Stefan Geyer , Gerhard Neumann

This paper deals with the systematic development of structure-preserving approximations for a class of nonlinear partial differential equations on networks. The class includes, for example, gas pipe network systems described by barotropic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Björn Liljegren-Sailer , Nicole Marheineke

Real physical systems are dissipative -- a pendulum slows, a circuit loses charge to heat -- and forecasting their dynamics from partial observations is a central challenge in scientific machine learning. We address the \emph{position-only}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Shubham Bhardwaj , Chandrajit Bajaj

This paper presents a port-Hamiltonian formulation of vehicle-manipulator systems (VMS), a broad class of robotic systems including aerial manipulators, underwater manipulators, space robots, and omnidirectional mobile manipulators. Unlike…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Ramy Rashad

We investigate discretization strategies for a recently introduced class of energy-based models. The model class encompasses classical port-Hamiltonian systems, generalized gradient flows, and certain systems with algebraic constraints. Our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Robert Altmann , Attila Karsai , Philipp Schulze

In this article, we present the structure-preserving discretization of linear one-dimensional port-Hamiltonian (PH) systems of two conservation laws using discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods. We recall the DG discretization procedure which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-19 Tobias Thoma , Paul Kotyczka

In scientific and engineering domains, modeling high-dimensional complex systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) remains challenging in terms of physical consistency and numerical stability. However, existing approaches,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Siqi Wang , Mengmeng Zhang , Yude Bu , Chaozhou Mou

World models are essential for autonomous robotic planning. However, the substantial computational overhead of existing dense Transformerbased models significantly hinders real-time deployment. To address this efficiency-performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Shicheng Yin , Kaixuan Yin , Weixing Chen , Yang Liu , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

Digital AI systems spanning large language models, vision models, and generative architectures that operate primarily in symbolic, linguistic, or pixel domains. They have achieved striking progress, but almost all of this progress lives in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Tao Xu , Zhixin Hu , Li Luo , Momiao Xiong

This work discusses the model reduction problem for large-scale multi-symplectic PDEs with cubic invariants. For this, we present a linearly implicit global energy-preserving method to construct reduced-order models. This allows to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Süleyman Yildiz , Pawan Goyal , Peter Benner

This paper proposes a passivity-based port-Hamiltonian (pH) framework for multi-agent displacement-based and rigid formation control and velocity tracking. The control law consists of two parts, where the internal feedback is to track the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-18 Ningbo Li , Zhiyong Sun , Arjan van der Schaft , Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen

Dynamics model learning deals with the task of inferring unknown dynamics from measurement data and predicting the future behavior of the system. A typical approach to address this problem is to train recurrent models. However, predictions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Katharina Ensinger , Sebastian Ziesche , Sebastian Trimpe

This paper presents a port-Hamiltonian (PH) modeling, control, and structure-preserving simulation framework for grid-forming static var generators (SVGs). A PH model is established that captures energy exchange among the inductor,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Jiaxin Qian , Feng Ji , Sixu Wu , Mingyang Liu , Yifa Tang

A generative recurrent neural network is quickly trained in an unsupervised manner to model popular reinforcement learning environments through compressed spatio-temporal representations. The world model's extracted features are fed into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-07 David Ha , Jürgen Schmidhuber

From metronomes to celestial bodies, mechanics underpins how the world evolves in time and space. With consideration of this, a number of recent neural network models leverage inductive biases from classical mechanics to encourage model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Jiayin Liu , Yulong Yang , Vineet Bansal , Christine Allen-Blanchette

Distributed Port-Hamiltonian (dPHS) theory provides a powerful framework for modeling physical systems governed by partial differential equations and has enabled a broad class of boundary control methodologies. Their effectiveness, however,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Thomas Beckers , Leonardo Colombo

Current control algorithms for aerial robots struggle with robustness in dynamic environments and adverse conditions. Model-based reinforcement learning (RL) has shown strong potential in handling these challenges while remaining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Eashan Vytla , Bhavanishankar Kalavakolanu , Andrew Perrault , Matthew McCrink

In this paper we present a unifying geometric and compositional framework for modeling complex physical network dynamics as port-Hamiltonian systems on open graphs. Basic idea is to associate with the incidence matrix of the graph a Dirac…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-07 A. J. van der Schaft , B. M. Maschke

Recently, world models have been incorporated into the autonomous driving systems to improve the planning reliability. Existing approaches typically predict future states through appearance generation or deterministic regression, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Xiaolu Liu , Yicong Li , Song Wang , Junbo Chen , Angela Yao , Jianke Zhu