Ill-Conditioning in Dictionary-Based Dynamic-Equation Learning: A Systems Biology Case Study

This paper systematically analyzes how numerical ill-conditioning caused by multicollinearity in candidate function libraries undermines the robustness of sparse regression for discovering biological dynamics, demonstrating that while orthogonal polynomial bases can improve model recovery under specific data distributions, they often fail or perform worse than monomial libraries when data sampling deviates from their associated weight functions.

Yuxiang Feng, Niall M Mangan, Manu JayadharanFri, 13 Ma🧬 q-bio

Prediction performance of random reservoirs with different topology for nonlinear dynamical systems with different number of degrees of freedom

This study demonstrates that symmetric reservoir topologies significantly enhance prediction accuracy for low-dimensional nonlinear dynamical systems with limited input dimensions, whereas high-dimensional chaotic systems like turbulent shear flow exhibit minimal sensitivity to such structural symmetries.

Shailendra K. Rathor, Lina Jaurigue, Martin Ziegler + 1 more2026-03-10🌀 nlin

Integral Formulation and the Brézis-Ekeland-Nayroles-Type Principle for Prox-Regular Sweeping Processes

This paper establishes a unified bounded-variation solution framework for prox-regular sweeping processes by proving the equivalence between a new integral formulation with a quadratic correction term and the standard differential-measure formulation, while also deriving a Brézis-Ekeland-Nayroles-type variational characterization that ensures stability under uniform limits.

Juan Guillermo Garrido, Emilio Vilches2026-03-06🔢 math

Formal Entropy-Regularized Control of Stochastic Systems

This paper presents a formal control synthesis framework for continuous-state stochastic systems that minimizes a linear combination of system entropy (measured by KL divergence to uniform) and cumulative cost by deriving novel bounds on the entropy difference between continuous distributions and their finite-state abstractions, thereby enabling entropy-aware controllers with rigorous performance guarantees.

Menno van Zutphen, Giannis Delimpaltadakis, Duarte J. Antunes2026-03-06🔢 math

On average population levels for models with directed diffusion in heterogeneous environments

This paper investigates the total population levels in heterogeneous environments with directed diffusion for any power-law relationship between intrinsic growth rate and carrying capacity, disproving the existence of a critical exponent that determines population prevalence over carrying capacity and analyzing how the total population depends on the diffusion coefficient under a generalized dispersal strategy.

André Rickes, Elena Braverman2026-03-06🔢 math