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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: "The principle of least action is one of the most fundamental physical principle.
It says that among all possible motions connecting two points in a phase space,
the system will exhibit those motions which extremise an action functional. Many
qualitative features of dynamical systems, such as the presence of conservation
laws and energy balance equations, are related to the existence of an action functional.
Incorporating variational structure into learning algorithms for dynamical systems
is, therefore, crucial in order to make sure that the learned model shares important
features with the exact physical system. In this paper we show how to incorporate
variational principles into trajectory predictions of learned dynamical systems.
The novelty of this work is that (1) our technique relies only on discrete position
data of observed trajectories. Velocities or conjugate momenta do not need to
be observed or approximated and no prior knowledge about the form of the variational
principle is assumed. Instead, they are recovered using backward error analysis.
(2) Moreover, our technique compensates discretisation errors when trajectories
are computed from the learned system. This is important when moderate to large
step-sizes are used and high accuracy is required. For this,\r\nwe introduce and
rigorously analyse the concept of inverse modified Lagrangians by developing an
inverse version of variational backward error analysis. (3) Finally, we introduce
a method to perform system identification from position observations only, based
on variational backward error analysis."
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Sina
full_name: Ober-Blöbaum, Sina
id: '16494'
last_name: Ober-Blöbaum
- first_name: Christian
full_name: Offen, Christian
id: '85279'
last_name: Offen
orcid: 0000-0002-5940-8057
citation:
ama: Ober-Blöbaum S, Offen C. Variational Learning of Euler–Lagrange Dynamics from
Data. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 2023;421:114780.
doi:10.1016/j.cam.2022.114780
apa: Ober-Blöbaum, S., & Offen, C. (2023). Variational Learning of Euler–Lagrange
Dynamics from Data. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 421,
114780. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cam.2022.114780
bibtex: '@article{Ober-Blöbaum_Offen_2023, title={Variational Learning of Euler–Lagrange
Dynamics from Data}, volume={421}, DOI={10.1016/j.cam.2022.114780},
journal={Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics}, publisher={Elsevier},
author={Ober-Blöbaum, Sina and Offen, Christian}, year={2023}, pages={114780}
}'
chicago: 'Ober-Blöbaum, Sina, and Christian Offen. “Variational Learning of Euler–Lagrange
Dynamics from Data.” Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 421
(2023): 114780. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cam.2022.114780.'
ieee: 'S. Ober-Blöbaum and C. Offen, “Variational Learning of Euler–Lagrange Dynamics
from Data,” Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, vol. 421,
p. 114780, 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.cam.2022.114780.'
mla: Ober-Blöbaum, Sina, and Christian Offen. “Variational Learning of Euler–Lagrange
Dynamics from Data.” Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics,
vol. 421, Elsevier, 2023, p. 114780, doi:10.1016/j.cam.2022.114780.
short: S. Ober-Blöbaum, C. Offen, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
421 (2023) 114780.
date_created: 2022-01-11T13:24:00Z
date_updated: 2023-08-10T08:42:39Z
ddc:
- '510'
department:
- _id: '636'
doi: 10.1016/j.cam.2022.114780
external_id:
arxiv:
- '2112.12619'
file:
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content_type: application/pdf
creator: coffen
date_created: 2022-06-28T15:25:50Z
date_updated: 2022-06-28T15:25:50Z
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The principle of least action is one of the most fundamental physical principle. It says that among all possible motions
connecting two points in a phase space, the system will exhibit those motions which extremise an action functional.
Many qualitative features of dynamical systems, such as the presence of conservation laws and energy balance equa-
tions, are related to the existence of an action functional. Incorporating variational structure into learning algorithms
for dynamical systems is, therefore, crucial in order to make sure that the learned model shares important features
with the exact physical system. In this paper we show how to incorporate variational principles into trajectory predic-
tions of learned dynamical systems. The novelty of this work is that (1) our technique relies only on discrete position
data of observed trajectories. Velocities or conjugate momenta do not need to be observed or approximated and no
prior knowledge about the form of the variational principle is assumed. Instead, they are recovered using backward
error analysis. (2) Moreover, our technique compensates discretisation errors when trajectories are computed from the
learned system. This is important when moderate to large step-sizes are used and high accuracy is required. For this,
we introduce and rigorously analyse the concept of inverse modified Lagrangians by developing an inverse version of
variational backward error analysis. (3) Finally, we introduce a method to perform system identification from position
observations only, based on variational backward error analysis.
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