What can regularization offer for estimation of dynamical systems?

Estimation of unknown dynamics is what system identication is about and acore problem in adaptive control and adaptive signal processing. It has long been known thatregularization can be quite benecial for general inverse problems of which system identicationis an example. But only recently, partly under the inuence of machine learning, the use ofwell tuned regularization for estimating linear dynamical systems has been investigated moreseriously. In this presentation we review these new results and discuss what they may mean forthe theory and practice of dynamical model estimation in general