From Individual Trajectories to Population Densities: Weak-Form Inference of Heterogeneous Growth Laws

arXiv:2609.31955 · q-bio.PE · Submitted 2026-09-25 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-09-25

Code: https://github.com/MathBioCU/Heterogeneous

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Sources

• Weak Form Learning for Mean-Field Partial Differential Equations: an Application to Insect Movement
• WENDy for Nonlinear-in-Parameters ODEs

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