Data-driven discovery of coordinates and governing equations

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DOI10.1073/PNAS.1906995116zbMATH Open1433.68396arXiv1904.02107OpenAlexW2981906852WikidataQ90856756 ScholiaQ90856756MaRDI QIDQ5218490FDOQ5218490


Authors: Kathleen Champion, Bethany Lusch, Nathan Kutz, S. L. Brunton Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 4 March 2020

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The discovery of governing equations from scientific data has the potential to transform data-rich fields that lack well-characterized quantitative descriptions. Advances in sparse regression are currently enabling the tractable identification of both the structure and parameters of a nonlinear dynamical system from data. The resulting models have the fewest terms necessary to describe the dynamics, balancing model complexity with descriptive ability, and thus promoting interpretability and generalizability. This provides an algorithmic approach to Occam's razor for model discovery. However, this approach fundamentally relies on an effective coordinate system in which the dynamics have a simple representation. In this work, we design a custom autoencoder to discover a coordinate transformation into a reduced space where the dynamics may be sparsely represented. Thus, we simultaneously learn the governing equations and the associated coordinate system. We demonstrate this approach on several example high-dimensional dynamical systems with low-dimensional behavior. The resulting modeling framework combines the strengths of deep neural networks for flexible representation and sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy) for parsimonious models. It is the first method of its kind to place the discovery of coordinates and models on an equal footing.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02107




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