Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34932929›Full record

ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2021

Challenges in dynamic mode decomposition.

Ziyou Wu, Steven L Brunton, Shai Revzen

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. InputDSA : Demixing then comparing recurrent and externally driven dynamics.... International Conference on Learning Representations · 2026
    Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Challenges in dynamic mode decomposition.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2021
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ziyou WuUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4543-6815
Steven L BruntonUniversity of Washington, Mechanical Engineering, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6565-5118
Shai RevzenUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2989-0356

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) is a powerful tool for extracting spatial and temporal patterns from multi-dimensional time series, and it has been used successfully in a wide range of fields, including fluid mechanics, robotics and neuroscience. Two of the main challenges remaining in DMD research are noise sensitivity and issues related to Krylov space closure when modelling nonlinear systems. Here, we investigate the combination of noise and nonlinearity in a controlled setting, by studying a class of systems with linear latent dynamics which are observed via multinomial observables. Our numerical models include system and measurement noise. We explore the influences of dataset metrics, the spectrum of the latent dynamics, the normality of the system matrix and the geometry of the dynamics. Our results show that even for these very mildly nonlinear conditions, DMD methods often fail to recover the spectrum and can have poor predictive ability. Our work is motivated by our experience modelling multilegged robot data, where we have encountered great difficulty in reconstructing time series for oscillatory systems with intermediate transients, which decay only slightly faster than a period.

Indexed as

dynamic mode decomposition dynamical systemslocomotion

Identifiers

PMID34932929
PMCPMC8692036

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.