Ultra-Early Prediction of Tipping Points: Integrating Dynamical Measures with Reservoir Computing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.14944v1
• Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:49:31 GMT
• Title: Ultra-Early Prediction of Tipping Points: Integrating Dynamical Measures with Reservoir Computing
• Abstract summary: Complex dynamical systems can undergo catastrophic and potentially irreversible regime changes.<n> tipping points pose a prediction problem of both theoretical and practical significance.<n>We propose a model-free framework that integrates the measures characterizing the stability and sensitivity of dynamical systems with the reservoir computing technique.
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• Abstract: Complex dynamical systems-such as climate, ecosystems, and economics-can undergo catastrophic and potentially irreversible regime changes, often triggered by environmental parameter drift and stochastic disturbances. These critical thresholds, known as tipping points, pose a prediction problem of both theoretical and practical significance, yet remain largely unresolved. To address this, we articulate a model-free framework that integrates the measures characterizing the stability and sensitivity of dynamical systems with the reservoir computing (RC), a lightweight machine learning technique, using only observational time series data. The framework consists of two stages. The first stage involves using RC to robustly learn local complex dynamics from observational data segmented into windows. The second stage focuses on accurately detecting early warning signals of tipping points by analyzing the learned autonomous RC dynamics through dynamical measures, including the dominant eigenvalue of the Jacobian matrix, the maximum Floquet multiplier, and the maximum Lyapunov exponent. Furthermore, when these dynamical measures exhibit trend-like patterns, their extrapolation enables ultra-early prediction of tipping points significantly prior to the occurrence of critical transitions. We conduct a rigorous theoretical analysis of the proposed method and perform extensive numerical evaluations on a series of representative synthetic systems and eight real-world datasets, as well as quantitatively predict the tipping time of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation system. Experimental results demonstrate that our framework exhibits advantages over the baselines in comprehensive evaluations, particularly in terms of dynamical interpretability, prediction stability and robustness, and ultra-early prediction capability.

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