Learning Beyond Experience: Generalizing to Unseen State Space with Reservoir Computing

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Autores principales: Norton, Declan A., Zhang, Yuanzhao, Girvan, Michelle
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Publicado: 2025
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author Norton, Declan A.
Zhang, Yuanzhao
Girvan, Michelle
author_facet Norton, Declan A.
Zhang, Yuanzhao
Girvan, Michelle
contents Machine learning techniques offer an effective approach to modeling dynamical systems solely from observed data. However, without explicit structural priors -- built-in assumptions about the underlying dynamics -- these techniques typically struggle to generalize to aspects of the dynamics that are poorly represented in the training data. Here, we demonstrate that reservoir computing -- a simple, efficient, and versatile machine learning framework often used for data-driven modeling of dynamical systems -- can generalize to unexplored regions of state space without explicit structural priors. First, we describe a multiple-trajectory training scheme for reservoir computers that supports training across a collection of disjoint time series, enabling effective use of available training data. Then, applying this training scheme to multistable dynamical systems, we show that RCs trained on trajectories from a single basin of attraction can achieve out-of-domain generalization by capturing system behavior in entirely unobserved basins.
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spellingShingle Learning Beyond Experience: Generalizing to Unseen State Space with Reservoir Computing
Norton, Declan A.
Zhang, Yuanzhao
Girvan, Michelle
Machine Learning
Dynamical Systems
Chaotic Dynamics
Computational Physics
Machine learning techniques offer an effective approach to modeling dynamical systems solely from observed data. However, without explicit structural priors -- built-in assumptions about the underlying dynamics -- these techniques typically struggle to generalize to aspects of the dynamics that are poorly represented in the training data. Here, we demonstrate that reservoir computing -- a simple, efficient, and versatile machine learning framework often used for data-driven modeling of dynamical systems -- can generalize to unexplored regions of state space without explicit structural priors. First, we describe a multiple-trajectory training scheme for reservoir computers that supports training across a collection of disjoint time series, enabling effective use of available training data. Then, applying this training scheme to multistable dynamical systems, we show that RCs trained on trajectories from a single basin of attraction can achieve out-of-domain generalization by capturing system behavior in entirely unobserved basins.
title Learning Beyond Experience: Generalizing to Unseen State Space with Reservoir Computing
topic Machine Learning
Dynamical Systems
Chaotic Dynamics
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05292