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Main Authors: Liu-Schiaffini, Miguel, Singer, Clare E., Kovachki, Nikola, Leung, Sze Chai, Bae, Hyunji Jane, Azizzadenesheli, Kamyar, Anandkumar, Anima
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Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08794
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author Liu-Schiaffini, Miguel
Singer, Clare E.
Kovachki, Nikola
Leung, Sze Chai
Bae, Hyunji Jane
Azizzadenesheli, Kamyar
Anandkumar, Anima
author_facet Liu-Schiaffini, Miguel
Singer, Clare E.
Kovachki, Nikola
Leung, Sze Chai
Bae, Hyunji Jane
Azizzadenesheli, Kamyar
Anandkumar, Anima
contents Tipping points are abrupt, drastic, and often irreversible changes in the evolution of non-stationary and chaotic dynamical systems. For instance, increased greenhouse gas concentrations are predicted to lead to drastic decreases in low cloud cover, referred to as a climatological tipping point. In this paper, we learn the evolution of such non-stationary dynamical systems using a novel recurrent neural operator (RNO), which learns mappings between function spaces. After training RNO on only the pre-tipping dynamics, we employ it to detect future tipping points using an uncertainty-based approach. In particular, we propose a conformal prediction framework to forecast tipping points by monitoring deviations from physics constraints (such as conserved quantities and partial differential equations), enabling forecasting of these abrupt changes along with a rigorous measure of uncertainty. We illustrate our proposed methodology on non-stationary ordinary and partial differential equations, such as the Lorenz-63 and Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equations. We also apply our methods to forecast a climate tipping point in stratocumulus cloud cover and airfoil wake and stall transitions using only limited knowledge of the governing equations. For the latter, we show that our proposed method zero-shot generalizes to forecasting multiple future tipping points under varying Reynolds numbers. In our experiments, we demonstrate that even partial or approximate physics constraints can be used to accurately forecast future tipping points.
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spellingShingle Tipping Point Forecasting in Non-Stationary Dynamics on Function Spaces
Liu-Schiaffini, Miguel
Singer, Clare E.
Kovachki, Nikola
Leung, Sze Chai
Bae, Hyunji Jane
Azizzadenesheli, Kamyar
Anandkumar, Anima
Machine Learning
Dynamical Systems
Tipping points are abrupt, drastic, and often irreversible changes in the evolution of non-stationary and chaotic dynamical systems. For instance, increased greenhouse gas concentrations are predicted to lead to drastic decreases in low cloud cover, referred to as a climatological tipping point. In this paper, we learn the evolution of such non-stationary dynamical systems using a novel recurrent neural operator (RNO), which learns mappings between function spaces. After training RNO on only the pre-tipping dynamics, we employ it to detect future tipping points using an uncertainty-based approach. In particular, we propose a conformal prediction framework to forecast tipping points by monitoring deviations from physics constraints (such as conserved quantities and partial differential equations), enabling forecasting of these abrupt changes along with a rigorous measure of uncertainty. We illustrate our proposed methodology on non-stationary ordinary and partial differential equations, such as the Lorenz-63 and Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equations. We also apply our methods to forecast a climate tipping point in stratocumulus cloud cover and airfoil wake and stall transitions using only limited knowledge of the governing equations. For the latter, we show that our proposed method zero-shot generalizes to forecasting multiple future tipping points under varying Reynolds numbers. In our experiments, we demonstrate that even partial or approximate physics constraints can be used to accurately forecast future tipping points.
title Tipping Point Forecasting in Non-Stationary Dynamics on Function Spaces
topic Machine Learning
Dynamical Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08794