Abstract

We present a machine learning (ML)-assisted framework bridging manifold learning, neural networks, Gaussian processes, and Equation-Free multiscale modeling, for (a) detecting tipping points in the emergent behavior of complex systems, and (b) characterizing probabilities of rare events (here, catastrophic shifts) near them. Our illustrative example is an event-driven, stochastic agent-based model (ABM) describing the mimetic behavior of traders in a simple financial market. Given high-dimensional spatiotemporal data – generated by the stochastic ABM – we construct reduced-order models for the emergent dynamics at different scales: (a) mesoscopic Integro-Partial Differential Equations (IPDEs); and (b) mean-field-type Stochastic Differential Equations (SDEs) embedded in a low-dimensional latent space, targeted to the neighborhood of the tipping point. We contrast the uses of the different models and the effort involved in learning them.

Recommended citation: Fabiani, G., Evangelou, N., Cui, T. et al. Task-oriented machine learning surrogates for tipping points of agent-based models. Nat Commun 15, 4117 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48024-7 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48024-7