Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
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Articles | Volume 31, issue 3
Articles | Volume 31, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-31-409-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-31-409-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 31, issue 3
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19 Sep 2024
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Representation learning with unconditional denoising diffusion models for dynamical systems

Tobias Sebastian Finn, Lucas Disson, Alban Farchi, Marc Bocquet, and Charlotte Durand

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cerea-daml/ddm-attractor Tobias Sebastian Finn https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8406184

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This paper tests the ability of Artificial Intelligence methods, and more specifically Deep Learning, to eliminate the Gaussian noise that disturbs the data of a dynamic system. The authors demonstrate this using a highly chaotic model as a hard test case.
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We train neural networks as denoising diffusion models for state generation in the Lorenz 1963 system and demonstrate that they learn an internal representation of the system. We make use of this learned representation and the pre-trained model in two downstream tasks: surrogate modelling and ensemble generation. For both tasks, the diffusion model can outperform other more common approaches. Thus, we see a potential of representation learning with diffusion models for dynamical systems.
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