Weak Form Scientific Machine Learning: Test Function Construction for System Identification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03206v1
• Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2025 22:36:34 GMT
• Title: Weak Form Scientific Machine Learning: Test Function Construction for System Identification
• Authors: April Tran, David Bortz,
• Abstract summary: Weak form Scientific Machine Learning (WSciML) is a recently developed framework for data-driven modeling and scientific discovery.<n>We mathematically motivate a novel data-driven method for constructing Single-scale-Local reference functions for creating the set of test functions.<n>Our approach numerically approximates the integration error introduced by the quadrature and identifies the support size for which the error is minimal.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Weak form Scientific Machine Learning (WSciML) is a recently developed framework for data-driven modeling and scientific discovery. It leverages the weak form of equation error residuals to provide enhanced noise robustness in system identification via convolving model equations with test functions, reformulating the problem to avoid direct differentiation of data. The performance, however, relies on wisely choosing a set of compactly supported test functions. In this work, we mathematically motivate a novel data-driven method for constructing Single-scale-Local reference functions for creating the set of test functions. Our approach numerically approximates the integration error introduced by the quadrature and identifies the support size for which the error is minimal, without requiring access to the model parameter values. Through numerical experiments across various models, noise levels, and temporal resolutions, we demonstrate that the selected supports consistently align with regions of minimal parameter estimation error. We also compare the proposed method against the strategy for constructing Multi-scale-Global (and orthogonal) test functions introduced in our prior work, demonstrating the improved computational efficiency.

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