Linearized uniqueness of space dependent coefficients in a non-autonomous evolution equation from non-local observations
arXiv:2608.07177
2026
Regularization
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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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2026
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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