Data-driven forecasting of high-dimensional chaotic systems with long short-term memory networks

Abstract

We introduce a data-driven forecasting method for high-dimensional chaotic systems using long short-term memory (LSTM) recurrent neural networks. The proposed LSTM neural networks perform inference of high-dimensional dynamical systems in their reduced order space and are shown to be an effective set of nonlinear approximators of their attractor. We demonstrate the forecasting performance of the LSTM and compare it with Gaussian processes (GPs) in time series obtained from the Lorenz 96 system, the Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation and a prototype climate model. The LSTM networks outperform the GPs in short-term forecasting accuracy in all applications considered. A hybrid architecture, extending the LSTM with a mean stochastic model (MSM–LSTM), is proposed to ensure convergence to the invariant measure. This novel hybrid method is fully data-driven and extends the forecasting capabilities of LSTM networks.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
May 01, 2018
Source ID
10.1098/rspa.2017.0844

Entities

People

  • Pantelis Vlachas
  • Petros Koumoutsakos
  • Themistoklis Sapsis
  • Wonmin Byeon
  • Zhong Y. Wan

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • Army Research Office
  • ETH Zurich
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Office of Naval Research

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Wave Propagation and Nonlinear Chaotic Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Learning Algorithms
  • AI & ML - Neural Networks
  • Space