Linearized uniqueness of space dependent coefficients in a non-autonomous evolution equation from non-local observations

arXiv:2608.07177 2026 Regularization 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Aug 31, 2026

What the math gives to ML

The paper's transferable asset is a linearized observability principle: coefficient perturbations are identifiable when their induced state sensitivities cannot remain invisible under a family of time-trace or weighted spatial observations. This suggests a conditioning-aware training objective for neural inverse models, rather than merely fitting the final observation mismatch. A practical adaptation is to compute parameter-to-observation Jacobians through the differentiable simulator or latent dynamics and penalize poorly observed parameter directions using an observability Gramian. The same machinery can also select controls or measurement weights that make coefficient recovery better conditioned.

Ideas from this paper

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Linearized Observability Regularizer

Train a neural coefficient-recovery model with an additional loss that rewards observation sensitivity in every learnable coefficient direction. Instead of only minimizing the reconstruction error of the observed trajectory, explicitly discourage a nearly singular parameter-to-observation Jacobian, which should reduce ambiguous reconstructions and improve robustness to noise.

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Paper: Linearized uniqueness of space dependent coefficients in a non-autonomous evolution equation from non-local observations arXiv:2608.07177