activity
20242026
collaborators

8 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…