This study presents a general framework, namely, Sparse Spatiotemporal System Discovery ( ), for discovering dynamical models given by Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) from spatiotemporal data. is built on the recent development of sparse Bayesian learning, which enforces sparsity in the estimated PDEs. This approach enables a balance between model complexity and fitting error with theoretical guarantees. The proposed framework integrates Bayesian inference and a sparse priori distribution with the sparse regression method. It also introduces a principled iterative re-weighted algorithm to select dominant features in PDEs and solve for the sparse coefficients. We have demonstrated the discovery of the complex Ginzburg–Landau equation from a traveling-wave convection experiment, as well as several other PDEs, including the important cases of Navier–Stokes and sine-Gordon equations, from simulated data.
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November 15 2023
Machine discovery of partial differential equations from spatiotemporal data: A sparse Bayesian learning framework
Ye Yuan
;
Ye Yuan
a)
(Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing)
1
School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipments and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
, Wuhan 430074, People’s Republic of China
a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: yye@hust.edu.cn
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Xiuting Li;
Xiuting Li
(Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing)
2
College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University
, Wuhan 430070, People’s Republic of China
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Liang Li;
Liang Li
(Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation)
3
School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Key Laboratory of Image Processing and Intelligent Control, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
, Wuhan 430074, People’s Republic of China
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Frank J. Jiang
;
Frank J. Jiang
(Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation)
4
Division of Decision and Control Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden
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Xiuchuan Tang;
Xiuchuan Tang
(Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation)
5
School of Automation, Tsinghua University
, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China
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Fumin Zhang
;
Fumin Zhang
(Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision)
6
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, USA
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Jorge Goncalves
;
Jorge Goncalves
(Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – review & editing)
7
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
, Cambridge, United Kingdom
and the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg
, L-4362 Belvaux, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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Henning U. Voss
;
Henning U. Voss
(Data curation, Investigation, Supervision)
8
Cornell MRI Facility, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University
, Ithaca, New York 10065, USA
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Han Ding;
Han Ding
(Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision)
9
School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipments and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
, Wuhan 430074, People’s Republic of China
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Jürgen Kurths
Jürgen Kurths
(Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing)
10
Research Domain IV—Transdisciplinary Concepts & Methods, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
, Potsdam D-14415, Germany
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a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: yye@hust.edu.cn
Chaos 33, 113122 (2023)
Article history
Received:
June 06 2023
Accepted:
October 15 2023
Citation
Ye Yuan, Xiuting Li, Liang Li, Frank J. Jiang, Xiuchuan Tang, Fumin Zhang, Jorge Goncalves, Henning U. Voss, Han Ding, Jürgen Kurths; Machine discovery of partial differential equations from spatiotemporal data: A sparse Bayesian learning framework. Chaos 1 November 2023; 33 (11): 113122. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0160900
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