Backpropagation in hyperbolic chaos via adjoint shadowing

Abstract

To generalise the backpropagation method to both discrete-time and continuous-time hyperbolic chaos, we introduce the adjoint shadowing operator S acting on covector fields. We show that S can be equivalently defined as: S is the adjoint of the linear shadowing operator S; S is given by a ‘split then propagate’ expansion formula; S(ω) is the only bounded inhomogeneous adjoint solution of ω. By (a), S adjointly expresses the shadowing contribution, a significant part of the linear response, where the linear response is the derivative of the long-time statistics with respect to system parameters. By (b), S also expresses the other part of the linear response, the unstable contribution. By (c), S can be efficiently computed by the nonintrusive shadowing algorithm in Ni and Talnikar (2019 J. Comput. Phys. 395 690–709), which is similar to the conventional backpropagation algorithm. For continuous-time cases, we additionally show that the linear response admits a well-defined decomposition into shadowing and unstable contributions.