Machine learning conservation laws of dynamical systems.

Mebratie, Meskerem Abebaw; Nather, Rüdiger; von Rudorff, Guido Falk; Seiler, Werner M · Phys Rev E · 2025

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Conservation laws are of great theoretical and practical interest. We describe an alternative approach to machine learning conservation laws of finite-dimensional dynamical systems using trajectory data. It is a unique approach based on kernel methods instead of neural networks which leads to lower computational costs and requires a lower amount of training data. We propose the use of an "indeterminate" form of kernel ridge regression where the labels still have to be found by additional conditions. We use a simple approach minimizing the length of the coefficient vector to discover a single conservation law.