Predicting rare events using neural networks and short-trajectory data

Estimating the likelihood, timing, and nature of events is a major goal of modeling stochastic dynamical systems. When the event is rare in comparison with the timescales of simulation and/or measurement needed to resolve the elemental dynamics, accurate prediction from direct observations becomes c...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of computational physics. - 1986. - 488(2023) vom: 01. Sept.
1. Verfasser: Strahan, John (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Finkel, Justin, Dinner, Aaron R, Weare, Jonathan
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2023
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Journal of computational physics
Schlagworte:Journal Article Feynman-Kac equation Holton-Mass model adaptive sampling high-dimensional PDE neural network rare event
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Zusammenfassung:Estimating the likelihood, timing, and nature of events is a major goal of modeling stochastic dynamical systems. When the event is rare in comparison with the timescales of simulation and/or measurement needed to resolve the elemental dynamics, accurate prediction from direct observations becomes challenging. In such cases a more effective approach is to cast statistics of interest as solutions to Feynman-Kac equations (partial differential equations). Here, we develop an approach to solve Feynman-Kac equations by training neural networks on short-trajectory data. Our approach is based on a Markov approximation but otherwise avoids assumptions about the underlying model and dynamics. This makes it applicable to treating complex computational models and observational data. We illustrate the advantages of our method using a low-dimensional model that facilitates visualization, and this analysis motivates an adaptive sampling strategy that allows on-the-fly identification of and addition of data to regions important for predicting the statistics of interest. Finally, we demonstrate that we can compute accurate statistics for a 75-dimensional model of sudden stratospheric warming. This system provides a stringent test bed for our method
Beschreibung:Date Revised 02.09.2024
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:0021-9991
DOI:10.1016/j.jcp.2023.112152