Flow Matching for Probabilistic Learning of Dynamical Systems from Missing or Noisy Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01101v1
• Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:35:17 GMT
• Title: Flow Matching for Probabilistic Learning of Dynamical Systems from Missing or Noisy Data
• Authors: Siddharth Rout, Eldad Haber, Stephane Gaudreault,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a variant of flow matching for probabilistic forecasting which estimates possible future states as a distribution over possible outcomes.<n>We also propose a generative machine learning approach to physically and logically perturb the states of complex dynamical systems.
• Score: 3.748255320979002
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Learning dynamical systems is crucial across many fields, yet applying machine learning techniques remains challenging due to missing variables and noisy data. Classical mathematical models often struggle in these scenarios due to the arose ill-posedness of the physical systems. Stochastic machine learning techniques address this challenge by enabling the modeling of such ill-posed problems. Thus, a single known input to the trained machine learning model may yield multiple plausible outputs, and all of the outputs are correct. In such scenarios, probabilistic forecasting is inherently meaningful. In this study, we introduce a variant of flow matching for probabilistic forecasting which estimates possible future states as a distribution over possible outcomes rather than a single-point prediction. Perturbation of complex dynamical states is not trivial. Community uses typical Gaussian or uniform perturbations to crucial variables to model uncertainty. However, not all variables behave in a Gaussian fashion. So, we also propose a generative machine learning approach to physically and logically perturb the states of complex high-dimensional dynamical systems. Finally, we establish the mathematical foundations of our method and demonstrate its effectiveness on several challenging dynamical systems, including a variant of the high-dimensional WeatherBench dataset, which models the global weather at a 5.625{\deg} meridional resolution.

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