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arxiv: 2605.18276 · v1 · pith:CXERJS23new · submitted 2026-05-18 · 📊 stat.ML · cs.LG

Geometric Dictionary Learning of Dynamical Systems with Optimal Transport

Thibaut Germain , Sami Chemlal , R\'emi Flamary , Vladimir R. Kostic , Karim Lounici This is my paper

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The pith

Related dynamical systems lie near a low-dimensional manifold in spectral operator space that a learned dictionary can approximate for compact representations and faster estimation.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper starts from the idea that related dynamical systems cluster near a low-dimensional manifold when their spectral operators are compared. It builds DOODL to learn a dictionary of representative spectral dynamics so that linear combinations of dictionary elements can stand in for new systems. This produces compact embeddings and lets the method estimate operators from short or incomplete trajectories by staying inside the learned manifold. A reader would care because the approach replaces separate fits for each system with shared structure that improves results when individual data is limited.

Core claim

We posit that related dynamical systems lie near a low-dimensional manifold in spectral operator space. Based on this hypothesis, we introduce DOODL (Dynamical OperatOr Dictionary Learning), a framework that learns a dictionary of characteristic spectral dynamics whose combinations approximate this manifold and yield compact, interpretable embeddings of individual systems. Beyond representation learning, DOODL enables fast and interpretable operator estimation from short and partially observed trajectories by constraining the estimation to the learned operator manifold.

What carries the argument

The DOODL dictionary of spectral operators whose combinations approximate the low-dimensional manifold in operator space.

If this is right

  • Compact and interpretable embeddings of individual dynamical systems
  • Fast operator estimation from short and partially observed trajectories
  • Scaling to complex multiscale regimes such as metastable Langevin dynamics and turbulent plasma simulations
  • Capturing characteristic spectral structure that governs long-term behavior rather than merely fitting observed trajectories
  • Errors one to two orders of magnitude lower than independent operator estimation in low-data settings

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The manifold assumption could be tested directly by measuring the intrinsic dimension of spectral operators across families of systems from different domains
  • Dictionary learning in operator space might combine with transfer methods to initialize models for new but related dynamics
  • The approach suggests examining whether other operator representations, such as Koopman or Perron-Frobenius operators, also admit low-dimensional structure across related systems
  • Optimal transport distances between operators could serve as a general tool for aligning dynamics learned in separate experiments

Load-bearing premise

Related dynamical systems lie near a low-dimensional manifold in spectral operator space.

What would settle it

For a collection of related systems, showing that spectral operators cannot be approximated to high accuracy by combinations from a small learned dictionary, so that estimation error does not drop below the level achieved by fitting each system independently.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.18276 by Karim Lounici, R\'emi Flamary, Sami Chemlal, Thibaut Germain, Vladimir R. Kostic.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: (left) Two-wells Langevin potential for different widths. (middle) T-SNE with SGOT of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Comparison of operator estimator on truncated trajectories, including individual RRR, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Regime-switch detection from operator embeddings. (left) SGOT geometry of training [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Density fluctuations across plasma regimes for varying [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Geometry of turbulent plasma dynamics. Left: SGOT geometry organizes plasma regimes [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Early operator recovery and parameter identification from short plasma trajectories. Top: op￾erator estimation. Bottom: parame￾ter regression from DOODL embed￾dings. complex plasma regimes long before direct operator estima￾tion becomes stable. Once the spectral manifold is learned, inference reduces to estimating a small number of barycen￾tric coordinates rather than recovering an unconstrained high￾dimen… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Comparison of operator estimator on truncated trajectories, including individual RRR, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Comparison of operator estimation per potential width with SGOT error on trajectories of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: electrostatic potential ϕ(x, y, t) fluctuations at the four corners of the (g, κ) grid. In contrast to density snapshots, which mainly show the transported scalar field, the potential highlights the organization of the advecting flow. Increasing g makes the potential structures more deformed and vortex-like, consistently with its role in the vorticity equation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Temporal representation learning diagnostics. Left: training objective in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: GradNorm optimization diagnostics. Left: auxiliary GradNorm objective. Right: gradient [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Diagnostic rank selection for reduced-rank validation. The held-out one-step error [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p034_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Checkpoint selection with reduced-rank validation. Train and validation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p035_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Recovered generator spectra for different GR shifts [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p036_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Recovered generator spectra for different maximum lags [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p036_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Marginal correlations between recovered generator coordinates and the density-gradient [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p037_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Spectral correlations with the interchange parameter [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p038_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Representative recovered generator coordinates. Top: coordinates most associated with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p039_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: t-SNE embedding of the pairwise SGOT distance matrix between recovered generator [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p039_19.png] view at source ↗
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Learning dynamical systems through operator-theoretic representations provides a powerful framework for analyzing complex dynamics, as spectral quantities such as eigenvalues and invariant structures encode characteristic time scales and long-term behavior. However, dynamical operators are typically estimated independently for each system, preventing the discovery of shared structure across related dynamics. To address this limitation, we posit that related dynamical systems lie near a low-dimensional manifold in spectral operator space. Based on this hypothesis, we introduce DOODL (Dynamical OperatOr Dictionary Learning), a framework that learns a dictionary of characteristic spectral dynamics whose combinations approximate this manifold and yield compact, interpretable embeddings of individual systems. Beyond representation learning, DOODL enables fast and interpretable operator estimation from short and partially observed trajectories by constraining the estimation to the learned operator manifold. Experiments on metastable Langevin dynamics and turbulent plasma simulations demonstrate that DOODL scales to highly complex multiscale regimes while capturing characteristic spectral structure governing the dynamics rather than merely fitting trajectories, achieving errors one to two orders of magnitude lower than independent operator estimation methods in challenging low-data regimes.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper posits that related dynamical systems lie near a low-dimensional manifold in spectral operator space. It introduces DOODL, a dictionary-learning framework that learns a dictionary of characteristic spectral dynamics whose combinations approximate this manifold, yielding compact embeddings and enabling constrained, fast operator estimation from short or partially observed trajectories via optimal transport. Experiments on metastable Langevin dynamics and turbulent plasma simulations report one-to-two orders of magnitude error reduction versus independent operator estimation in low-data regimes.

Significance. If the manifold hypothesis and empirical gains hold, the work would offer a principled way to share spectral structure across related dynamical systems, improving sample efficiency and interpretability for multiscale physical models where data are scarce. The geometric dictionary-learning approach with optimal transport is a distinctive contribution that could influence operator-theoretic methods in dynamical systems.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract / Introduction] Abstract and opening of the introduction: the central hypothesis that 'related dynamical systems lie near a low-dimensional manifold in spectral operator space' is stated without derivation, theorem, or even a heuristic argument showing why spectral operators of related systems must concentrate rather than fill higher-dimensional regions. This assumption is load-bearing for the entire DOODL construction, the claimed geometric guarantees, and the superiority over independent estimation.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract (experimental claims): the reported 'one to two orders of magnitude' error reduction is presented without reference to the precise error metric, baseline implementations, number of independent trials, data-exclusion criteria, or statistical tests. Because the central claim rests on these unexamined results, the strength of the empirical support cannot be assessed from the provided description.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract mentions 'optimal transport' only in the title; a one-sentence description of how OT is used to enforce the geometric structure would improve readability.
  2. [Method section] Notation for the spectral operator space and the dictionary atoms is introduced without an early equation or diagram; a small schematic in §2 would clarify the embedding and reconstruction steps.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive and insightful comments. These have helped us identify areas where the manuscript can be strengthened in terms of motivation and clarity. We address each major comment point by point below, indicating the revisions we will make.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract / Introduction] Abstract and opening of the introduction: the central hypothesis that 'related dynamical systems lie near a low-dimensional manifold in spectral operator space' is stated without derivation, theorem, or even a heuristic argument showing why spectral operators of related systems must concentrate rather than fill higher-dimensional regions. This assumption is load-bearing for the entire DOODL construction, the claimed geometric guarantees, and the superiority over independent estimation.

    Authors: We agree that the manifold hypothesis is foundational and would benefit from explicit motivation. While a universal theorem may not exist for arbitrary unrelated systems, we will add a heuristic argument in the revised Introduction. The argument will note that for families of dynamical systems parameterized by a low-dimensional set of physical quantities (e.g., potential parameters in Langevin dynamics or forcing amplitudes in plasma models), the associated spectral operators vary continuously with these parameters under standard regularity conditions on the underlying stochastic processes. Consequently, the image of this parameter-to-operator map is expected to concentrate near a low-dimensional manifold in operator space. We will also clarify that this is a modeling assumption tailored to the multiscale physical regimes considered in the paper and is empirically validated by the low-rank dictionary structure recovered in Sections 4 and 5. We will discuss the assumption's scope and limitations for systems that are not continuously related. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract (experimental claims): the reported 'one to two orders of magnitude' error reduction is presented without reference to the precise error metric, baseline implementations, number of independent trials, data-exclusion criteria, or statistical tests. Because the central claim rests on these unexamined results, the strength of the empirical support cannot be assessed from the provided description.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the abstract is overly concise on the experimental details. In the revised manuscript we will expand the abstract to specify the error metric (relative operator estimation error measured in the Frobenius norm), the baseline methods (independent dynamic mode decomposition and extended DMD), the number of independent trials (20), and the fact that all generated trajectories were retained with no exclusion criteria. Standard deviations across trials are reported in the main-text figures, and statistical significance is assessed via paired t-tests (detailed in the supplementary material). These elements are already present in Sections 4 and 5; the revision will simply surface the key qualifiers in the abstract while respecting length constraints. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: hypothesis explicitly posited as assumption with independent construction

full rationale

The paper explicitly introduces the low-dimensional manifold claim with the phrasing 'we posit that related dynamical systems lie near a low-dimensional manifold in spectral operator space' and then defines DOODL as a dictionary-learning procedure built on top of that assumption. No equations reduce the claimed predictions or embeddings back to fitted parameters by construction, no self-citations are invoked as load-bearing uniqueness theorems, and no ansatz is smuggled in via prior work. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained once the hypothesis is granted; the method's outputs are not equivalent to its inputs by definition.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

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axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Related dynamical systems lie near a low-dimensional manifold in spectral operator space.
    This hypothesis is explicitly posited in the abstract as the basis for introducing DOODL.
invented entities (1)
  • Dictionary of characteristic spectral dynamics no independent evidence
    purpose: To approximate the low-dimensional manifold of related dynamical systems and produce compact embeddings.
    Introduced as the core learned object within the DOODL framework.

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