Generalizing Dynamics Modeling More Easily from Representation Perspective

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22655v1
• Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:15:47 GMT
• Title: Generalizing Dynamics Modeling More Easily from Representation Perspective
• Abstract summary: We conduct a generalized Pre-trained Dynamics EncoDER (PDEDER)<n>PDEDER embeds the original state observations into a latent space where the dynamics can be captured more easily.<n>We evaluate PDEDER on 12 dynamic systems by short/long-term forecasting under both in-domain and cross-domain settings.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: Learning system dynamics from observations is a critical problem in many applications over various real-world complex systems, e.g., climate, ecology, and fluid systems. Recently, neural dynamics modeling method have become a prevalent solution that embeds the object's observations into a latent space before learning dynamics using neural methods such as neural Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE). Existing dynamics modeling methods induce a specific model for each observation of different complex systems, resulting in poor generalization across systems. Inspired by the great success of pre-trained models, we conduct a generalized Pre-trained Dynamics EncoDER (PDEDER) which can embed the original state observations into a latent space where the dynamics can be captured more easily. To conduct the generalized PDEDER, we pre-train any Pre-trained Language Model (PLM) by minimizing the Lyapunov exponent objective, which constrains the chaotic behavior of governing dynamics learned in the latent space. By penalizing the divergence of embedded observations, our PDEDER promotes locally stable and well-structured latent dynamics, thereby facilitating more effective dynamics modeling than in the original observation space. In addition, we incorporate reconstruction and forecasting objectives to mitigate the risk of obtaining an over-smoothed latent space. Specifically, we collect 152 sets of real-world and synthetic observations from 23 complex systems as pre-training corpora and employ them to pre-train PDEDER. Given any future dynamic observation, we can fine-tune PDEDER with any specific dynamics modeling method. We evaluate PDEDER on 12 dynamic systems by short/long-term forecasting under both in-domain and cross-domain settings, and the empirical results indicate the effectiveness and generalizability of PDEDER.

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