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Symmetric Linear Dynamical Systems are Learnable from Few Observations

Published: December 5, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2512.05337v1

By: Minh Vu, Andrey Y. Lokhov, Marc Vuffray

We consider the problem of learning the parameters of a $N$-dimensional stochastic linear dynamics under both full and partial observations from a single trajectory of time $T$. We introduce and analyze a new estimator that achieves a small maximum element-wise error on the recovery of symmetric dynamic matrices using only $T=\mathcal{O}(\log N)$ observations, irrespective of whether the matrix is sparse or dense. This estimator is based on the method of moments and does not rely on problem-specific regularization. This is especially important for applications such as structure discovery.

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