Data-driven network analysis using local delay embeddings

Data-driven methods for the identification of the governing equations of dynamical systems or the computation of reduced surrogate models play an increasingly important role in many application areas such as physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering. Given only measurement or observation data, data-driven modeling techniques allow us to gain important insights into the characteristic properties of a system, without requiring detailed mechanistic models. However, most methods assume that we have access to the full state of the system, which might be too restrictive. We show that it is possible to learn certain global dynamical features from local observations using delay embedding techniques, provided that the system satisfies a localizability condition—a property that is closely related to the observability and controllability of linear time-invariant systems.