Data-Driven Discovery of Emergent Dynamics in Reaction-Diffusion Systems from Sparse and Noisy Observations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09278v2
• Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 06:32:45 GMT
• Title: Data-Driven Discovery of Emergent Dynamics in Reaction-Diffusion Systems from Sparse and Noisy Observations
• Authors: Saumitra Dwivedi, Ricardo da Silva Torres, Ibrahim A. Hameed, Gunnar Tufte, Anniken Susanne T. Karlsen,
• Abstract summary: A current challenge in the discovery process relates to system identification when there is no prior knowledge of the underlying physics.<n>We attempt to address this challenge by learning Soft Artificial Life (Soft ALife) models, such as Agent-based and Cellular Automata (CA) models, from observed data for reaction-diffusion systems.<n> Experimental results demonstrate that the learned models are able to predict the emergent dynamics with good accuracy (74%) and exhibit quite robust performance when subjected to Gaussian noise and temporal sparsity.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Data-driven discovery of emergent dynamics is gaining popularity, particularly in the context of reaction-diffusion systems. These systems are widely studied across various fields, including neuroscience, ecology, epidemiology, and several other subject areas that deal with emergent dynamics. A current challenge in the discovery process relates to system identification when there is no prior knowledge of the underlying physics. We attempt to address this challenge by learning Soft Artificial Life (Soft ALife) models, such as Agent-based and Cellular Automata (CA) models, from observed data for reaction-diffusion systems. In this paper, we present findings on the applicability of a conceptual framework, the Data-driven Rulesets for Soft Artificial Life (DRSALife) model, to learn Soft ALife rulesets that accurately represent emergent dynamics in a reaction-diffusion system from observed data. This model has demonstrated promising results for Elementary CA Rule 30, Game of Life, and Vicsek Flocking problems in recent work. To our knowledge, this is one of the few studies that explore machine-based Soft ALife ruleset learning and system identification for reaction-diffusion dynamics without any prior knowledge of the underlying physics. Moreover, we provide comprehensive findings from experiments investigating the potential effects of using noisy and sparse observed datasets on learning emergent dynamics. Additionally, we successfully identify the structure and parameters of the underlying partial differential equations (PDEs) representing these dynamics. Experimental results demonstrate that the learned models are able to predict the emergent dynamics with good accuracy (74%) and exhibit quite robust performance when subjected to Gaussian noise and temporal sparsity.

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