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2405.00539

Data-driven approximation of Koopman operators and generators: Convergence rates and error bounds

Liam Llamazares-Elias, Samir Llamazares-Elias, Jonas Latz, Stefan Klus

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Category
math.DS
Journal tier
Strong Field
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Sep 28, 2025, 12:56 AM

Audit review

The paper proves an existence result for the joint limit (Theorem 5.1) by combining almost-sure data-limit convergence at fixed N (Theorem 3.5/Corollary 3.6) with dictionary-limit convergence (Theorem 4.2) and then, under additional boundedness assumptions, supplies high-probability finite-sample error bounds (Proposition 5.6; Theorem 5.7). The candidate solution also establishes the joint-limit convergence, but via a different route: an explicit deterministic schedule M_N based on union-of-Chebyshev bounds and Borel–Cantelli, plus a perturbation analysis of Ĝ and Ĉ leading to operator-norm control of Â_{N,M}−A_N, and then the same projection argument to reach A. This is consistent with the paper’s setting and assumptions (Assumptions 1–4) and yields a slightly stronger existence statement (deterministic schedule) than Theorem 5.1, though it does not deliver the paper’s quantitative rates. Minor omissions in the model (e.g., not explicitly stating the continuity-evaluability condition of Assumption 1(b)) do not affect correctness of the main claim. Overall, both arguments are correct and structurally different; the paper also provides sharper probabilistic rates that the model does not.

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\textbf{Recommendation:} minor revisions

\textbf{Journal Tier:} strong field

\textbf{Justification:}

The paper achieves a general and rigorous convergence framework for data-driven operator approximation, proving data-, dictionary-, and joint-limit results and furnishing nonasymptotic bounds. The results are correct and broadly useful. Minor improvements could further clarify where certain assumptions enter and how the existence proof relates to deterministic schedules.