# Model synthesis and identifiability analysis of stiff chemical reaction systems with inVAErt networks

Source: [Model synthesis and identifiability analysis of stiff chemical reaction systems with inVAErt networks](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69fc1c625497b3b670c8836f>)

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Data updated: 2026-05-08T05:00:04.262Z

Authors: Sreejata Dey, Guoxiang Grayson Tong, Jonathan F. MacArt, Daniele E. Schiavazzi

Published: 2026-05-05T17:48:12.000Z

## Abstract

We consider the problem of learning data-driven replicas for stiff systems of ordinary differential equations arising in chemical kinetics that can be evaluated with high computational efficiency. We first focus on training emulators for families of reaction equations under varying reaction rates, using conditional residual networks or long-short term memory architectures. We then apply a recently proposed data-driven framework known as \`\`inVAErt networks'' to address the ill-posed inverse problem of inferring reaction rates, integration time, and possibly initial conditions from a target set of species concentrations - a problem that has received relatively little attention in the literature. The proposed approach is demonstrated on chemical systems with reversible and irreversible kinetics, spanning 2 to 20 differential equations, 3 to 20 chemical species, and 3 to 25 reaction rate parameters. Relative root mean squared errors produced by the proposed emulators range from $10^{-5}$ for lower-dimensional systems to $10^{-4}$ and $10^{-3}$ for an air pollution model and a hydrogen-air reaction system, respectively. Manifolds of non-identifiable reaction rates recovered by the proposed approach can be analytically verified for simple systems and are consistent with local identifiability analysis in higher dimensions.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04134>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.04134.pdf>)