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The diffusion forecasting is a nonparametric approach that provably solves the Fokker–Planck PDE corresponding to Itô diffusion without knowing the underlying equation. The key idea of this method is to approximate the solution of the Fokker–Planck equation with a discrete representation of the shift (Koopman) operator on a set of basis functions generated via the diffusion maps algorithm. While the choice of these basis functions is provably optimal under appropriate conditions, computing these basis functions is quite expensive since it requires the eigendecomposition of an \(N\times N\) diffusion matrix, where N denotes the data size and could be very large. For large-scale forecasting problems, only a few leading eigenvectors are computationally achievable. To overcome this computational bottleneck, a new set of basis functions constructed by orthonormalizing selected columns of the diffusion matrix and its leading eigenvectors is proposed. This computation can be carried out efficiently via the unpivoted Householder QR factorization. The efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm will be shown in both deterministically chaotic and stochastic dynamical systems; in the former case, the superiority of the proposed basis functions over purely eigenvectors is significant, while in the latter case forecasting accuracy is improved relative to using a purely small number of eigenvectors. Supporting arguments will be provided on three- and six-dimensional chaotic ODEs, a three-dimensional SDE that mimics turbulent systems, and also on the two spatial modes associated with the boreal winter Madden–Julian Oscillation obtained from applying the Nonlinear Laplacian Spectral Analysis on the measured Outgoing Longwave Radiation.
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The research of J.H. is partially supported by the Office of Naval Research Grants N00014-16-1-2888 and the National Science Foundation Grant DMS-1317919, DMS-1619661. We thank D.Giannakis for providing the NLSA modes for the experiments in Sect. 5. H.Y. is supported by the startup package of the Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore.
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Harlim, J., Yang, H. Diffusion Forecasting Model with Basis Functions from QR-Decomposition. J Nonlinear Sci 28, 847–872 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00332-017-9430-1
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