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Judging model reduction of complex systems.

Jie Sun¹, Erik M Bollt, Takashi Nishikawa

¹Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA. sunj@northwestern.edu

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This study introduces a new two-step framework for model reduction in complex systems. It uses shadowing distance to better measure the quality of low-dimensional dynamics modeling, outperforming stepwise error methods.

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Area of Science:

Complex Systems Science
Dynamical Systems Theory
Network Science

Background:

Model reduction is crucial for understanding complex systems.
Stepwise prediction error may not accurately reflect reduction quality due to ignored global dynamics.
Identifying and modeling low-dimensional dynamics in large systems is challenging.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a general two-step framework for model reduction.
To introduce shadowing distance as a metric for assessing the quality of modeled low-dimensional dynamics.
To demonstrate the framework's effectiveness using coupled oscillator networks.

Main Methods:

A two-step approach involving dimensionality reduction of time series.
Subsequent modeling of the reduced-dimension time series.
Utilizing shadowing distance to evaluate the accuracy of the modeled dynamics.

Main Results:

The proposed framework effectively identifies and models low-dimensional dynamics.
Shadowing distance provides a more accurate measure of reduction quality than stepwise prediction error.
The approach demonstrates superior performance in coupled oscillator network models.

Conclusions:

The novel two-step framework offers an improved method for model reduction in complex systems.
Shadowing distance is a valuable metric for evaluating the geometric accuracy of reduced models.
This work advances the understanding and modeling of complex system dynamics.