Unsupervised multi-scale diagnostics

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Main Authors: Lapo, Karl, Ichinaga, Sara M., Kutz, Nathan
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author Lapo, Karl
Ichinaga, Sara M.
Kutz, Nathan
author_facet Lapo, Karl
Ichinaga, Sara M.
Kutz, Nathan
contents The unsupervised and principled diagnosis of multi-scale data is a fundamental obstacle in modern scientific problems from, for instance, weather and climate prediction, neurology, epidemiology, and turbulence. Multi-scale data is characterized by a combination of processes acting along multiple dimensions simultaneously, spatiotemporal scales across orders of magnitude, non-stationarity, and/or invariances such as translation and rotation. Existing methods are not well-suited to multi-scale data, usually requiring supervised strategies such as human intervention, extensive tuning, or selection of ideal time periods. We present the multi-resolution Coherent Spatio-Temporal Scale Separation (mrCOSTS), a hierarchical and automated algorithm for the diagnosis of coherent patterns or modes in multi-scale data. mrCOSTS is a variant of Dynamic Mode Decomposition which decomposes data into bands of spatial patterns with shared time dynamics, thereby providing a robust method for analyzing multi-scale data. It requires no training but instead takes advantage of the hierarchical nature of multi-scale systems. We demonstrate mrCOSTS using complex multi-scale data sets that are canonically difficult to analyze: 1) climate patterns of sea surface temperature, 2) electrophysiological observations of neural signals of the motor cortex, and 3) horizontal wind in the mountain boundary layer. With mrCOSTS, we trivially retrieve complex dynamics that were previously difficult to resolve while additionally extracting hitherto unknown patterns of activity embedded in the dynamics, allowing for advancing the understanding of these fields of study. This method is an important advancement for addressing the multi-scale data which characterize many of the grand challenges in science and engineering.
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spellingShingle Unsupervised multi-scale diagnostics
Lapo, Karl
Ichinaga, Sara M.
Kutz, Nathan
Dynamical Systems
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Fluid Dynamics
37-04 (primary) 37N10, 37N25, 86-08 (secondary)
The unsupervised and principled diagnosis of multi-scale data is a fundamental obstacle in modern scientific problems from, for instance, weather and climate prediction, neurology, epidemiology, and turbulence. Multi-scale data is characterized by a combination of processes acting along multiple dimensions simultaneously, spatiotemporal scales across orders of magnitude, non-stationarity, and/or invariances such as translation and rotation. Existing methods are not well-suited to multi-scale data, usually requiring supervised strategies such as human intervention, extensive tuning, or selection of ideal time periods. We present the multi-resolution Coherent Spatio-Temporal Scale Separation (mrCOSTS), a hierarchical and automated algorithm for the diagnosis of coherent patterns or modes in multi-scale data. mrCOSTS is a variant of Dynamic Mode Decomposition which decomposes data into bands of spatial patterns with shared time dynamics, thereby providing a robust method for analyzing multi-scale data. It requires no training but instead takes advantage of the hierarchical nature of multi-scale systems. We demonstrate mrCOSTS using complex multi-scale data sets that are canonically difficult to analyze: 1) climate patterns of sea surface temperature, 2) electrophysiological observations of neural signals of the motor cortex, and 3) horizontal wind in the mountain boundary layer. With mrCOSTS, we trivially retrieve complex dynamics that were previously difficult to resolve while additionally extracting hitherto unknown patterns of activity embedded in the dynamics, allowing for advancing the understanding of these fields of study. This method is an important advancement for addressing the multi-scale data which characterize many of the grand challenges in science and engineering.
title Unsupervised multi-scale diagnostics
topic Dynamical Systems
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Fluid Dynamics
37-04 (primary) 37N10, 37N25, 86-08 (secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02396