Identifiability Limits of Physics-Informed Inference for Spatial Stochastic Dynamics from Static Snapshots

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01749v1
• Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:06:56 GMT
• Title: Identifiability Limits of Physics-Informed Inference for Spatial Stochastic Dynamics from Static Snapshots
• Abstract summary: Physics-informed machine learning offers a promising route to inferring dynamics from static snapshots.<n>We ask when a static spatial pattern of molecules can identify spatially varying diffusivity, creation, destruction, and boundary exchange.<n>A structural identifiability analysis shows that distributed sources are non-identifiable, whereas a point source such as a transcription site can restore identifiability.
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• Abstract: Despite increasing scale and resolution, many biological measurements remain destructive, revealing only spatial information rather than the dynamics it encodes. By combining flexible representations with mechanistic constraints, physics-informed machine learning offers a promising route to inferring these dynamics from static snapshots. Motivated by subcellular imaging of gene expression, we ask when a static spatial pattern of molecules can identify spatially varying diffusivity, creation, destruction, and boundary exchange, and how different inference schemes perform on the task. A structural identifiability analysis shows that distributed sources are non-identifiable, whereas a point source such as a transcription site can restore identifiability. These limits are further shaped by seemingly innocuous modeling choices: the boundary conditions, the spatial regularity of the underlying dynamics, and even the stochastic calculus convention. We then adapt several physics-informed schemes, differing in how they represent the solution and enforce the governing equations, and demonstrate effective inference from a single snapshot. Physics-informed approaches can thus recover spatial heterogeneities of biological dynamics from static data, but their use should be accompanied and guided by careful identifiability analysis for meaningful interpretation of the results.

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