arXiv Machine Learning

Uncovering Extreme Event Mechanisms for Prediction and Control with Sensitivity-Balanced Projections

arXiv:2606. 05618v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Extreme events -- such as earthquakes and coronal mass ejections -- are common in many chaotic dynamical systems, yet are difficult to characterize and predict due to the subtle instability mechanisms that drive them.

arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

AI Emulation of Stochastic Sudden Stratospheric Warming with Interpretable Latent Structure

The paper presents a probabilistic deep learning emulator—a ResNet‑inspired Conditional Variational Autoencoder—for the stochastic Holton–Mass model of stratospheric variability, which exhibits rare transitions between strong and weak polar vortex regimes. The emulator accurately reproduces short‑term dynamics, steady‑state distributions, regime persistence, rare transition rates, the committor function, and expected lead times. Analysis of the 32‑dimensional latent space via PCA reveals an unsupervised separation into four physically interpretable clusters that correspond to the two vortex regimes and their stable or transition‑prone states.

By C. Daniel Boscu, Daniel Hernandez, Fabio Alvarez Ventura, Justin Finkel, Ashesh Chattopadhyay, Pedram Hassanzadeh, Dorian S. Abbot
arXiv Machine Learning
5d ago

Mechanism-Aware Ensemble Conditioning for Data-Limited Emulation of Extreme Events

The paper introduces a mechanism‑aware conditioning framework that uses a nudged coarse ensemble to capture local instability geometry in chaotic systems. By injecting ensemble covariance statistics via a small FiLM module, the authors enhance rare‑event emulation in both a low‑dimensional chaotic benchmark and a quasi‑geostrophic flow model, achieving significant improvements in exceedance‑frequency and tail‑density errors with limited data. The approach demonstrates that local instability information can be leveraged as a practical conditioning signal for data‑efficient emulation of extreme events.

By Isabella S. Thiel, Juan Bello-Rivas, Yannis G. Kevrekidis, Themistoklis P. Sapsis
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Physics constraints and response validation in discrete-time reduced-order modeling: from idealized turbulent systems to climate dynamics

arXiv:2602. 13847v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A central challenge across science and engineering is to build data-driven reduced-order models of turbulent dynamical systems that reproduce stationary statistics, predict responses to external perturbations, and remain practical for real-world applications.

By Fabrizio Falasca, Laure Zanna