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Concise, accurate descriptions of physical systems through their conserved quantities abound in the natural sciences. In data science, however, current research often focuses on regression problems, without routinely incorporating…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Tom Bertalan , Felix Dietrich , Igor Mezić , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

Diffusion models cannot enforce hard constraints, yet applications in the physical sciences demand exact satisfaction of conservation laws, boundary conditions, and observational consistency. In this work, we identify a corrector kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Omer Rochman-Sharabi , Gilles Louppe

Many complex physical systems admit natural decomposition into an exactly solvable component and a perturbative correction. Rather than training neural networks to learn complete trajectories from scratch, we introduce Neural Network…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Zhenhao Chen , Mutian Shen , Boris Fain , Zohar Nussinov

Pseudo-Hamiltonian neural networks (PHNN) were recently introduced for learning dynamical systems that can be modelled by ordinary differential equations. In this paper, we extend the method to partial differential equations. The resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Sølve Eidnes , Kjetil Olsen Lye

The discovery of conservation laws is a cornerstone of scientific progress. However, identifying these invariants from observational data remains a significant challenge. We propose a hybrid framework to automate the discovery of conserved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Vivan Doshi

Conventional neural networks are universal function approximators, but because they are unaware of underlying symmetries or physical laws, they may need impractically many training data to approximate nonlinear dynamics. Recently introduced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Anshul Choudhary , John F. Lindner , Elliott G. Holliday , Scott T. Miller , Sudeshna Sinha , William L. Ditto

Diffusion models provide expressive priors for forecasting trajectories of dynamical systems, but are typically unreliable in the sparse data regime. Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) improves reliability in such settings; however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Kaiyuan Tan , Kendra Givens , Peilun Li , Thomas Beckers

With more and more data being collected, data-driven modeling methods have been gaining in popularity in recent years. While physically sound, classical gray-box models are often cumbersome to identify and scale, and their accuracy might be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Loris Di Natale , Bratislav Svetozarevic , Philipp Heer , Colin Neil Jones

Diffusion-based trajectory optimization has emerged as a powerful planning paradigm, but existing methods require either learned score networks trained on large datasets or analytical dynamics models for score computation. We introduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Shihao Li , Jiachen Li , Jiamin Xu , Dongmei Chen

Autonomous systems often must predict the motions of nearby agents from partial and noisy data. This paper asks and answers the question: "can we learn, in real-time, a nonlinear predictive model of another agent's motions?" Our online…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Stella Kombo , Masih Haseli , Skylar X. Wei , Joel W. Burdick

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art image generation but remain computationally costly due to iterative denoising. Latent-space models like Stable Diffusion reduce overhead yet lose fine detail, while retrieval-augmented methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Bilal Faye , Hanane Azzag , Mustapha Lebbah

Machine learning has become a powerful tool for discovering governing laws of dynamical systems from data. However, most existing approaches degrade severely when observations are sparse, noisy, or irregularly sampled. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Vedanta Thapar , Abhinav Gupta

This work proposes a novel neural network architecture, called the Dynamically Controlled Recurrent Neural Network (DCRNN), specifically designed to model dynamical systems that are governed by ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Yiwei Fu , Samer Saab , Asok Ray , Michael Hauser

In molecular dynamics (MD), neural network (NN) potentials trained bottom-up on quantum mechanical data have seen tremendous success recently. Top-down approaches that learn NN potentials directly from experimental data have received less…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Stephan Thaler , Julija Zavadlav

Cold dark matter (CDM) evolves as a collisionless fluid under the Vlasov-Poisson equations, but N-body simulations approximate this evolution by discretising the distribution function into particles, introducing discreteness effects at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Nicolas Cerardi , Emma Tolley , Ashutosh Mishra

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) training can be difficult due to vanishing and exploding gradients during weight optimization through backpropagation. To address this problem, we propose a general class of Hamiltonian DNNs (H-DNNs) that stem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Clara Lucía Galimberti , Luca Furieri , Liang Xu , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

The concept of compressing deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is essential to use limited computation, power, and memory resources on embedded devices. However, existing methods achieve this objective at the cost of a drop in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Waqar Ahmed , Andrea Zunino , Pietro Morerio , Vittorio Murino

This study explores the learnability of memory-less and memory-augmented RNNs, which are theoretically equivalent to Pushdown Automata. Empirical results show that these models often fail to generalize on longer sequences, relying more on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Shrabon Das , Ankur Mali

Physical dynamical systems can be viewed as natural information processors: their systems preserve, transform, and disperse input information. This perspective motivates learning not only from data generated by such systems, but also how to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Felix Köster , Atsushi Uchida

This work focuses on learning non-canonical Hamiltonian dynamics from data, where long-term predictions require the preservation of structure both in the learned model and in numerical schemes. Previous research focused on either facet,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Clémentine Courtès , Emmanuel Franck , Michael Kraus , Laurent Navoret , Léopold Trémant