Challenges in Dynamic Mode Decomposition

Ziyou Wu; Steven L. Brunton; Shai Revzen

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Challenges in Dynamic Mode Decomposition

Ziyou Wu·Steven L. Brunton·Shai Revzen

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Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) is a powerful tool for extracting spatial and temporal patterns from multi-dimensional time series, and it has been used successfully in a wide range of fields, including fluid mechanics, robotics, and neuroscience. Two of the main challenges remaining in DMD research are noise sensitivity and issues related to Krylov space closure when modeling nonlinear systems. Here, we investigate the combination of noise and nonlinearity in a controlled setting, by studying a class of systems with linear latent dynamics which are observed via multinomial observables. Our numerical models include system and measurement noise. We explore the influences of dataset metrics, the spectrum of the latent dynamics, the normality of the system matrix, and the geometry of the dynamics. Our results show that even for these very mildly nonlinear conditions, DMD methods often fail to recover the spectrum and can have poor predictive ability. Our work is motivated by our experience modeling multilegged robot data, where we have encountered great difficulty in reconstructing time series for oscillatory systems with slow transients, which decay only slightly faster than a period.

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Ziyou Wu, Steven L. Brunton, Shai Revzen. 2021-09-03. Challenges in Dynamic Mode Decomposition. https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.01710

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