Statistical Mechanics of Dynamical System Identification

arXiv:2403.01723v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Recovering dynamical equations from observed noisy data is the central challenge of system identification. We develop a statistical mechanical approach to analyze sparse equation discovery algorithms, which typically balance data fit and parsimony through a trial-and-error selection of hyperparameters. In this framework, statistical mechanics offers tools to analyze the interplay between complexity and fitness, in analogy to that done between entropy and energy. To establish this analogy, we define the optimization procedure as a two-level …

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