从噪声数据中稳定发现分数阶微分方程,关键在弱形式与帕累托选择结合。
Robust data-driven discovery of fractional differential equations via weak formulations and Pareto-based subset selection

- 用弱形式替代点态微分,将噪声敏感的分数阶导数转为平滑积分。
- 在含噪数据下仍能准确恢复方程结构,且支持集选择更稳定。
- 适合需从高噪声实测数据中挖掘物理模型的研究者使用。
分数阶偏微分方程描述非局部动力学,但其从噪声数据中发现困难,因分数阶微分会放大高频测量噪声,且导数阶数未知。本文提出 Weak-Pareto,结合伴随一致的弱形式分数项表达与基于帕累托的离散项类型及连续阶数子集选择。对线性右端项,伴随机制将分数算子从观测场转移到光滑测试函数,以平滑积分替代噪声敏感的点态微分;对非线性项,噪声抑制效果部分有效但仍具价值。系数通过岭回归在分支感知的差分进化搜索中拟合,支持规模由验证误差-复杂度拐点确定。我们证明:固定线性右端弱特征的方差随网格细化趋近于零,而点态分数特征的噪声放大随阶数增加。在分数阶对流-扩散、反应-扩散和 Burgers 基准测试中,Weak-Pareto 能从干净与含噪测量中恢复简洁结构。在受控对流-扩散和 Burgers 对比实验中,其在所有乘性噪声水平下均保持正确支持集,而无正则化强形式方法一旦引入噪声即大幅失效;该优势在加性高斯噪声下依然存在。消融实验表明,弱库驱动噪声鲁棒性,连续阶帕累托搜索避免了密集固定字典的支持选择失败。在对流-扩散基准上,Weak-Pareto 在操作符恢复一致性与测量运行时间方面均显著优于当前神经基线。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Fractional partial differential equations describe nonlocal dynamics, but discovering them from noisy data is difficult because fractional differentiation amplifies high-frequency measurement noise and the derivative orders are unknown. We propose Weak-Pareto, which combines an adjoint-consistent weak formulation of fractional terms with Pareto-based subset selection over discrete term types and continuous fractional orders. For linear right-hand-side terms, the adjoint transfers fractional operators from measured fields to smooth test functions, replacing noise-sensitive pointwise differentiation with smoothing integration; for nonlinear terms, the noise-suppression effect is partial yet useful. Coefficients are fitted by ridge regression within a branch-aware differential-evolution search over the orders. The support size is then selected at the validation-error-complexity elbow. We show that the variance of fixed linear right-hand-side weak features vanishes under grid refinement, whereas noise amplification in pointwise fractional features increases with derivative order. Across fractional advection-diffusion, reaction-diffusion, and Burgers benchmarks, Weak-Pareto recovers parsimonious structures from clean and noisy measurements. In controlled advection-diffusion and Burgers comparisons, it retains the correct support at every tested multiplicative-noise level, whereas the unregularised strong-form counterpart largely fails once noise is introduced; this advantage persists under additive Gaussian noise. Ablations show that the weak library drives noise robustness and that continuous-order Pareto search avoids the support-selection failure of a dense fixed dictionary. On the advection-diffusion benchmark, Weak-Pareto yields more consistent operator recovery and substantially lower measured runtime than a contemporary neural baseline.
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