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Symbolic Regression is the study of algorithms that automate the search for analytic expressions that fit data. While recent advances in deep learning have generated renewed interest in such approaches, the development of symbolic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Wassim Tenachi , Rodrigo Ibata , Foivos I. Diakogiannis

This paper revisits datasets and evaluation criteria for Symbolic Regression (SR), specifically focused on its potential for scientific discovery. Focused on a set of formulas used in the existing datasets based on Feynman Lectures on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Yoshitomo Matsubara , Naoya Chiba , Ryo Igarashi , Yoshitaka Ushiku

We introduce a composition-weighted symbolic regression framework for interpretable prediction of materials properties directly from chemical composition. The method jointly learns analytical functional forms and task-dependent elemental…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-05 Yang Huang , Jingrun Chen

Prediction models of lattice thermal conductivity have wide applications in the discovery of thermoelectrics, thermal barrier coatings, and thermal management of semiconductors. kL is notoriously difficult to predict. While classic models…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-15 Christian Loftis , Kunpeng Yuan , Yong Zhao , Ming Hu , Jianjun Hu

The process of discovering equations from data lies at the heart of physics and in many other areas of research, including mathematical ecology and epidemiology. Recently, machine learning methods known as symbolic regression emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Beatriz R. Brum , Luiza Lober , Isolde Previdelli , Francisco A. Rodrigues

In this paper, we present a new procedure to automatically generate interpretable hyperelastic material models. This approach is based on symbolic regression which represents an evolutionary algorithm searching for a mathematical model in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Rasul Abdusalamov , Markus Hillgärtner , Mikhail Itskov

Machine learning is often applied in health science to obtain predictions and new understandings of complex phenomena and relationships, but an availability of sufficient data for model training is a widespread problem. Traditional machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Casper Wilstrup , Jaan Kasak

We introduce a novel symbolic regression framework, namely KAN-SR, built on Kolmogorov Arnold Networks (KANs) which follows a divide-and-conquer approach. Symbolic regression searches for mathematical equations that best fit a given dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Marco Andrea Bühler , Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez

Describing the world behavior through mathematical functions help scientists to achieve a better understanding of the inner mechanisms of different phenomena. Traditionally, this is done by deriving new equations from first principles and…

The Symbolic Regression (SR) problem, where the goal is to find a regression function that does not have a pre-specified form but is any function that can be composed of a list of operators, is a hard problem in machine learning, both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Vernon Austel , Cristina Cornelio , Sanjeeb Dash , Joao Goncalves , Lior Horesh , Tyler Josephson , Nimrod Megiddo

High-throughput data generation methods and machine learning (ML) algorithms have given rise to a new era of computational materials science by learning relationships among composition, structure, and properties and by exploiting such…

Currently statistical and artificial neural network methods dominate in financial data mining. Alternative relational (symbolic) data mining methods have shown their effectiveness in robotics, drug design and other applications.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 B. Kovalerchuk , E. Vityaev , H. Yusupov

Process-structure-property relationships are fundamental in materials science and engineering and are key to the development of new and improved materials. Symbolic regression serves as a powerful tool for uncovering mathematical models…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-12 Evgeniya Kabliman , Gabriel Kronberger

Evolutionary symbolic regression (SR) fits a symbolic equation to data, which gives a concise interpretable model. We explore using SR as a method to propose which data to gather in an active learning setting with physical constraints. SR…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Jorge Medina , Andrew D. White

Symbolic regression aims to find interpretable analytical expressions by searching over mathematical formula spaces to capture underlying system behavior, particularly in scientific modeling governed by physical laws. However, traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Yunpeng Gong , Sihan Lan , Can Yang , Kunpeng Xu , Min Jiang

We describe and analyze algorithms for shape-constrained symbolic regression, which allows the inclusion of prior knowledge about the shape of the regression function. This is relevant in many areas of engineering -- in particular whenever…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Christian Haider , Fabricio Olivetti de França , Bogdan Burlacu , Gabriel Kronberger

A core challenge for both physics and artificial intellicence (AI) is symbolic regression: finding a symbolic expression that matches data from an unknown function. Although this problem is likely to be NP-hard in principle, functions of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-16 Silviu-Marian Udrescu , Max Tegmark

Automated scientific discovery aims to improve scientific understanding through machine learning. A central approach in this field is symbolic regression, which uses genetic programming or sparse regression to learn interpretable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Sigur de Vries , Sander W. Keemink , Marcel A. J. van Gerven

Diffusion has emerged as a powerful framework for generative modeling, achieving remarkable success in applications such as image and audio synthesis. Enlightened by this progress, we propose a novel diffusion-based approach for symbolic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Zachary Bastiani , Robert M. Kirby , Jacob Hochhalter , Shandian Zhe

The high-energy physics community is investigating the potential of deploying machine-learning-based solutions on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to enhance physics sensitivity while still meeting data processing time constraints. In…