When are dynamical systems learned from time series data statistically accurate?

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Main Authors: Park, Jeongjin, Yang, Nicole, Chandramoorthy, Nisha
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author Park, Jeongjin
Yang, Nicole
Chandramoorthy, Nisha
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Yang, Nicole
Chandramoorthy, Nisha
contents Conventional notions of generalization often fail to describe the ability of learned models to capture meaningful information from dynamical data. A neural network that learns complex dynamics with a small test error may still fail to reproduce its \emph{physical} behavior, including associated statistical moments and Lyapunov exponents. To address this gap, we propose an ergodic theoretic approach to generalization of complex dynamical models learned from time series data. Our main contribution is to define and analyze generalization of a broad suite of neural representations of classes of ergodic systems, including chaotic systems, in a way that captures emulating underlying invariant, physical measures. Our results provide theoretical justification for why regression methods for generators of dynamical systems (Neural ODEs) fail to generalize, and why their statistical accuracy improves upon adding Jacobian information during training. We verify our results on a number of ergodic chaotic systems and neural network parameterizations, including MLPs, ResNets, Fourier Neural layers, and RNNs.
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spellingShingle When are dynamical systems learned from time series data statistically accurate?
Park, Jeongjin
Yang, Nicole
Chandramoorthy, Nisha
Machine Learning
Mathematical Physics
Dynamical Systems
Statistics Theory
Conventional notions of generalization often fail to describe the ability of learned models to capture meaningful information from dynamical data. A neural network that learns complex dynamics with a small test error may still fail to reproduce its \emph{physical} behavior, including associated statistical moments and Lyapunov exponents. To address this gap, we propose an ergodic theoretic approach to generalization of complex dynamical models learned from time series data. Our main contribution is to define and analyze generalization of a broad suite of neural representations of classes of ergodic systems, including chaotic systems, in a way that captures emulating underlying invariant, physical measures. Our results provide theoretical justification for why regression methods for generators of dynamical systems (Neural ODEs) fail to generalize, and why their statistical accuracy improves upon adding Jacobian information during training. We verify our results on a number of ergodic chaotic systems and neural network parameterizations, including MLPs, ResNets, Fourier Neural layers, and RNNs.
title When are dynamical systems learned from time series data statistically accurate?
topic Machine Learning
Mathematical Physics
Dynamical Systems
Statistics Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06311