Learning Hamiltonians from Trajectory Data with Kernel Methods

Preprint. Structure-preserving kernel methods can recover Hamiltonians from sampled trajectories, but the numerical scheme used during fitting changes the target being learned. The authors quantify this integrator-induced bias for midpoint and symplectic Euler methods, derive finite-sample error bounds that account for observations from the same trajectory, and study robustness to noise. A multistride Richardson correction improves the order of the numerical error without requiring new trajectories. Experiments across several Hamiltonian systems support the theoretical predictions.

Citation

Hu, Jianyu, et al. “Learning Hamiltonians from Trajectory Data with Kernel Methods.” arXiv, 2026, arXiv:2610.17835. Preprint.

Authors from IE Research Datalab