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20192026
most citedOn the difficulty of learning chaotic dynamics with RNNs

17 citations · 42 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.LG2026

Learning Generalizable Reconstruction of High-Dimensional Neural Dynamics

Anima Kujur, Zahra Monfared

Accurate reconstruction of long-duration neural recordings is challenging because local field potentials (LFPs) are high-resolution, multichannel, transient, and variable across su…

cs.CV2026

Multimodal Deep Learning for Dynamic and Static Neuroimaging: Integrating MRI and fMRI for Alzheimer Disease Analysis

Anima Kujur, Zahra Monfared

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) provides detailed structural information, while functional MRI (fMRI) captures temporal brain activity. In this work, we present a multimodal deep…

eess.SP2026

Electrocardiogram Classification with Transformers Using Koopman and Wavelet Features

Sucheta Ghosh, Zahra Monfared

Electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis is vital for detecting cardiac abnormalities, yet robust automated classification is challenging due to the complexity and variability of physiolog…

cs.LG2026

Contrastive and Multi-Task Learning on Noisy Brain Signals with Nonlinear Dynamical Signatures

Sucheta Ghosh, Felix Dietrich, Zahra Monfared

We introduce a two-stage multitask learning framework for analyzing Electroencephalography (EEG) signals that integrates denoising, dynamical modeling, and representation learning.…

cs.LG2025

Detecting Invariant Manifolds in ReLU-Based RNNs

Lukas Eisenmann, Alena Brändle, Zahra Monfared +1

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have found widespread applications in machine learning for time series prediction and dynamical systems reconstruction, and experienced a recent re…

cs.LG2024

Almost-Linear RNNs Yield Highly Interpretable Symbolic Codes in Dynamical Systems Reconstruction

Manuel Brenner, Christoph Jürgen Hemmer, Zahra Monfared +1

Dynamical systems (DS) theory is fundamental for many areas of science and engineering. It can provide deep insights into the behavior of systems evolving in time, as typically des…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Koopman-informed recurrent neural networks

Erik Lien Bolager, Ana Čukarska, Iryna Burak +2

Recurrent neural networks are a successful neural architecture for many time-dependent problems, including time series analysis, forecasting, and modeling of dynamical systems. In…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Out-of-Domain Generalization in Dynamical Systems Reconstruction

Niclas Göring, Florian Hess, Manuel Brenner +2

In science we are interested in finding the governing equations, the dynamical rules, underlying empirical phenomena. While traditionally scientific models are derived through cycl…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Bifurcations and loss jumps in RNN training

Lukas Eisenmann, Zahra Monfared, Niclas Alexander Göring +1

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are popular machine learning tools for modeling and forecasting sequential data and for inferring dynamical systems (DS) from observed time series.…

cs.LG2023★ 7 cited

Generalized Teacher Forcing for Learning Chaotic Dynamics

Florian Hess, Zahra Monfared, Manuel Brenner +1

Chaotic dynamical systems (DS) are ubiquitous in nature and society. Often we are interested in reconstructing such systems from observed time series for prediction or mechanistic…

cs.LG2022★ 6 cited

Tractable Dendritic RNNs for Reconstructing Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

Manuel Brenner, Florian Hess, Jonas M. Mikhaeil +4

In many scientific disciplines, we are interested in inferring the nonlinear dynamical system underlying a set of observed time series, a challenging task in the face of chaotic be…

cs.LG2021★ 17 cited

On the difficulty of learning chaotic dynamics with RNNs

Jonas M. Mikhaeil, Zahra Monfared, Daniel Durstewitz

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are wide-spread machine learning tools for modeling sequential and time series data. They are notoriously hard to train because their loss gradient…

math.DS2020★ 7 cited

Transformation of ReLU-based recurrent neural networks from discrete-time to continuous-time

Zahra Monfared, Daniel Durstewitz

Recurrent neural networks (RNN) as used in machine learning are commonly formulated in discrete time, i.e. as recursive maps. This brings a lot of advantages for training models on…

math.DS2019

Existence of n-cycles and border-collision bifurcations in piecewise-linear continuous maps with applications to recurrent neural networks

Zahra Monfared, Daniel Durstewitz

Piecewise linear recurrent neural networks (PLRNNs) form the basis of many successful machine learning applications for time series prediction and dynamical systems identification,…