arXiv Machine Learning

Forecasting Multiple Observables with SCROLL: Score-Trained Uncertainty for Stochastic Dynamics

The paper introduces SCROLL, a method for forecasting multiple observables in stochastic dynamical systems by composing each observable’s likelihood into per‑task free‑routed last‑layer beliefs on a shared backbone. This approach learns unit‑dependent loss scaling directly from data, enabling accurate predictive variance estimation without separate tuning. Experiments on the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process, stochastic Lorenz‑63, and real air‑quality data show that SCROLL recovers analytic kernels, achieves superior negative log‑likelihood on state and regime tasks, and maintains calibration while reducing hyper‑parameter search costs.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

A Control Theory of Predictability in Latent World Models

arXiv:2607. 10362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent world models are trained to predict future states in a learned representation and are then deployed inside a planner that selects actions by simulating them forward.

By Hanzhe You, Yonggang Zhang, Maohao Ran, Zhiqin Yang, Zhenyuan Zhang, Wei Xue, Jun Song, Xinmei Tian, Yike Guo
arXiv Machine Learning
3d ago

Large Distant Gradients Need Not Be Reliable: reliability-weighted credit assignment for long-horizon autoregressive forecasting

The paper introduces Internal Dual-Wiener routing (Internal‑DW), a backward‑only method that weight‑balances internal gradient routes in autoregressive forecasting. By estimating bounded Wiener gains for identity and nonlinear paths, it suppresses unpredictable noise while preserving predictable learning signals, reducing forecast error by 5.2%–13.8% on four weak‑drive testbeds compared to full BPTT and outperforming gradient clipping, Jacobian regularization, and truncated BPTT in most cases. The approach shows that long‑horizon supervision can be effective without trusting every backward gradient equally.

By Junhao Zhao, David Michael Simberg, Jacob Kang, Colin Connor Kurniawan, Nan Xu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 2

TRIE: An Evaluation Framework for Stochastic PDE Surrogates

arXiv:2607. 00196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many scientific systems exhibit uncertainty from stochastic forcing, unresolved degrees of freedom, or imperfect observations, making reliable surrogate forecasting fundamentally distributional rather than pointwise.

By Bharat Srikishan, Javier E. Santos, Nikhil Muralidhar, Charles D. Young
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 19

When to Trust, How to Distill: Multi-Foundation Model Guidance for Lightweight, Robust Scientific Time Series Forecasting

arXiv:2606. 19363v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The deployment of Time-Series Foundation Models (TSFMs) in physical sciences is hindered by a critical trade-off: while these models encode rich, universal temporal dynamics, they suffer from severe distributional misalignment when applied zero-shot to specific scientific domains, and their computational cost prohibits deployment in edge-computing sensor networks.

By Rupasree Dey, Abdul Matin, Nathan Orwick, Yao Zhang, Shrideep Pallickara, Sangmi Lee Pallickara