Robust data-driven discovery of governing physical laws using a new subsampling-based sparse Bayesian method to tackle four challenges (large noise, outliers, data integration,

07/17/2019
by   Sheng Zhang, et al.
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The derivation of physical laws is a dominant topic in scientific research. We propose a new method capable of discovering the physical laws from data to tackle four challenges in the previous methods. The four challenges are: (1) large noise in the data, (2) outliers in the data, (3) integrating the data collected from different experiments, and (4) extrapolating the solutions to the areas that have no available data. To resolve these four challenges, we try to discover the governing differential equations and develop a model-discovering method based on sparse Bayesian inference and subsampling. The subsampling technique is used for improving the accuracy of the Bayesian learning algorithm here, while it is usually employed for estimating statistics or speeding up algorithms elsewhere. The optimal subsampling size is moderate, neither too small nor too big. Another merit of our method is that it can work with limited data by the virtue of Bayesian inference. We demonstrate how to use our method to tackle the four aforementioned challenges step by step through numerical examples: (1) predator-prey model with noise, (2) shallow water equations with outliers, (3) heat diffusion with random initial and boundary conditions, and (4) fish-harvesting problem with bifurcations. Numerical results show that the robustness and accuracy of our new method is significantly better than the other model-discovering methods and traditional regression methods.

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