Characterizing nonlinear dynamics by contrastive cartography

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Auteurs principaux: Romeo, Nicolas, Chi, Chris, Dinner, Aaron R., Jerison, Elizabeth R.
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author Romeo, Nicolas
Chi, Chris
Dinner, Aaron R.
Jerison, Elizabeth R.
author_facet Romeo, Nicolas
Chi, Chris
Dinner, Aaron R.
Jerison, Elizabeth R.
contents The qualitative study of dynamical systems using bifurcation theory is key to understanding systems from biological clocks and neurons to physical phase transitions. Data generated from such systems can feature complex transients, an unknown number of attractors, and stochasticity. Characterization of these often-complicated behaviors remains challenging. Making an analogy to bifurcation analysis, which specifies that useful dynamical features are often invariant to coordinate transforms, we leverage contrastive learning to devise a generic tool to discover dynamical classes from stochastic trajectory data. By providing a model-free trajectory analysis tool, this method automatically recovers the dynamical phase diagram of known models and provides a "map" of dynamical behaviors for a large ensemble of dynamical systems. The method thus provides a way to characterize and compare dynamical trajectories without governing equations or prior knowledge of target behavior. We additionally show that the same strategy can be used to characterize the stochastic motion of bacteria, establishing that this approach can be used as a standalone analysis tool or as a component of a broader data-driven analysis framework for dynamical data.
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spellingShingle Characterizing nonlinear dynamics by contrastive cartography
Romeo, Nicolas
Chi, Chris
Dinner, Aaron R.
Jerison, Elizabeth R.
Chaotic Dynamics
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Quantitative Methods
The qualitative study of dynamical systems using bifurcation theory is key to understanding systems from biological clocks and neurons to physical phase transitions. Data generated from such systems can feature complex transients, an unknown number of attractors, and stochasticity. Characterization of these often-complicated behaviors remains challenging. Making an analogy to bifurcation analysis, which specifies that useful dynamical features are often invariant to coordinate transforms, we leverage contrastive learning to devise a generic tool to discover dynamical classes from stochastic trajectory data. By providing a model-free trajectory analysis tool, this method automatically recovers the dynamical phase diagram of known models and provides a "map" of dynamical behaviors for a large ensemble of dynamical systems. The method thus provides a way to characterize and compare dynamical trajectories without governing equations or prior knowledge of target behavior. We additionally show that the same strategy can be used to characterize the stochastic motion of bacteria, establishing that this approach can be used as a standalone analysis tool or as a component of a broader data-driven analysis framework for dynamical data.
title Characterizing nonlinear dynamics by contrastive cartography
topic Chaotic Dynamics
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Quantitative Methods
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09628