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most citedRandom forests for detecting weak signals and extracting physical information: a case study of magnetic navigation

8 citations · 9 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

nlin.CD2026

Can Transformers predict system collapse in dynamical systems?

Zheng-Meng Zhai, Celso Grebogi, Ying-Cheng Lai

Transformer architectures have recently surged as promising solutions for nonlinear dynamical systems, proposed as foundation models capable of zero-shot dynamics reconstruction an…

nlin.CD2026

Anticipating tipping in spatiotemporal systems with machine learning

Smita Deb, Zheng-Meng Zhai, Mulugeta Haile +1

In nonlinear dynamical systems, tipping refers to a critical transition from one steady state to another, typically catastrophic, steady state, often resulting from a saddle-node b…

nlin.CD2025

Deficiency of equation-finding approach to data-driven modeling of dynamical systems

Zheng-Meng Zhai, Valerio Lucarini, Ying-Cheng Lai

Finding the governing equations from data by sparse optimization has become a popular approach to deterministic modeling of dynamical systems. Considering the physical situations w…

nlin.AO2025

Optimizing disorder with machine learning to harness synchronization

Jun-Yin Huang, Zheng-Meng Zhai, Vassilios Kovanis +1

Disorder is often considered detrimental to coherence. However, under specific conditions, it can enhance synchronization. We develop a machine-learning framework to design optimal…

nlin.CD2025

Unsupervised learning for anticipating critical transitions

Shirin Panahi, Ling-Wei Kong, Bryan Glaz +2

For anticipating critical transitions in complex dynamical systems, the recent approach of parameter-driven reservoir computing requires explicit knowledge of the bifurcation param…

cs.LG2024

Reconstructing dynamics from sparse observations with no training on target system

Zheng-Meng Zhai, Jun-Yin Huang, Benjamin D. Stern +1

In applications, an anticipated situation is where the system of interest has never been encountered before and sparse observations can be made only once. Can the dynamics be faith…

q-bio.QM2024

Learning to learn ecosystems from limited data -- a meta-learning approach

Zheng-Meng Zhai, Bryan Glaz, Mulugeta Haile +1

A fundamental challenge in developing data-driven approaches to ecological systems for tasks such as state estimation and prediction is the paucity of the observational or measurem…

cs.LG2024

Data-driven model discovery with Kolmogorov-Arnold networks

Mohammadamin Moradi, Shirin Panahi, Erik M. Bollt +1

Data-driven model discovery of complex dynamical systems is typically done using sparse optimization, but it has a fundamental limitation: sparsity in that the underlying governing…

eess.SP2024★ 8 cited

Random forests for detecting weak signals and extracting physical information: a case study of magnetic navigation

Mohammadamin Moradi, Zheng-Meng Zhai, Aaron Nielsen +1

It was recently demonstrated that two machine-learning architectures, reservoir computing and time-delayed feed-forward neural networks, can be exploited for detecting the Earth's…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 1 cited

Machine-learning prediction of tipping with applications to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Shirin Panahi, Ling-Wei Kong, Mohammadamin Moradi +4

Anticipating a tipping point, a transition from one stable steady state to another, is a problem of broad relevance due to the ubiquity of the phenomenon in diverse fields. The ste…

cs.LG2023

Machine-learning parameter tracking with partial state observation

Zheng-Meng Zhai, Mohammadamin Moradi, Bryan Glaz +2

Complex and nonlinear dynamical systems often involve parameters that change with time, accurate tracking of which is essential to tasks such as state estimation, prediction, and c…