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arxivcs.LGcs.AIeess.SY2026-07-21

Variational meta-learning inference for low dimensional neural system identification

Matteo Rufolo, Dario Piga, Marco Forgione

Deep learning has proven highly effective for nonlinear system identification, but heavily parameterized neural networks are prone to overfitting in low-data regimes and lack reliable uncertainty quantification. The recently developed manifold meta-learning framework addresses the data efficiency problem by restricting the model parameters to a meta-learned low-dimensional manifold. However, that method is purely deterministic. We propose a fully probabilistic extension of the manifold meta-learning framework, based on amortized Variational Inference, where a generative prior over the low-dimensional parameter manifold is learned. During task-specific adaptation, we combine Maximum A Posteriori estimation with the Laplace approximation to yield a mathematically grounded posterior approximation. Evaluated on a static regression task and the Bouc--Wen dynamical system benchmark, the proposed approach achieves predictive accuracy comparable to its deterministic counterpart while successfully providing calibrated uncertainty bounds in severely low-data regimes.

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