arXiv Machine Learning

Robust data-driven discovery of fractional differential equations via weak formulations and Pareto-based subset selection

arXiv:2608. 12879v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fractional partial differential equations describe nonlocal dynamics, but discovering them from noisy data is difficult because fractional differentiation amplifies high-frequency measurement noise and the derivative orders are unknown.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

Learning Fractional-Order Dynamics from a Single Trajectory

arXiv:2609. 18127v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many real-world processes exhibit long-range dependence, where the current state depends on a slowly decaying trace of past states rather than on the most recent state alone.

By Xiaole Zhang, Ziyi Zhang, Zehao Zhao, Stephen Tu, Guannan Qu, Yorie Nakahira, Paul Bogdan
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 1

Sensitivity-Constrained Neural Operators for Data-Efficient Forward and Inverse Modeling of Partial Differential Equation Systems

The paper introduces Sensitivity‑Constrained Neural Operators (SC‑NOs), which augment standard neural operator training with sampled Jacobian supervision from differentiable solvers or discrete adjoints. By matching selected sensitivities during training, SC‑NOs improve forward prediction accuracy and significantly enhance gradient‑based inverse reconstruction for distributed fields. Experiments on advection–diffusion, RANS–Spalart–Allmaras, high‑dimensional gridded inputs, and a shallow‑water tsunami source‑inversion case demonstrate that SC‑NOs achieve a better accuracy–cost trade‑off and enable near‑real‑time wave‑propagation forecasting from sparse observations.

By Abdolmehdi Behroozi, Chaopeng Shen, Daniel Kifer, Kathryn Lawson
arXiv Statistics ML
2d ago

Fractional Laplace Neural Operators: Exact Architectures, an Expressivity Frontier at Criticality, and Certified Stability for Memory-Driven Network Dynamics

The paper introduces the fractional Laplace neural operator (fLNO), a neural operator that embeds Volterra resolvent structures with non‑rational Laplace symbols into learned maps. It demonstrates that a single graph‑spectral layer can exactly represent the full linear Volterra solution for commuting excitation–Laplacian pairs, and establishes limits on the expressivity of finite rational realizations, showing they cannot capture non‑integer critical asymptotics. The authors also provide trainable parametrizations that enforce stability margins, a graphon‑transfer theorem, and empirical results on benchmark data, Chilean aftershock sequences, and renewal models, highlighting the fLNO’s ability to recover branching coordinates with few parameters while maintaining stability.

By Mauricio Herrera-Mar\'in