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We propose SatelliteFormula, a novel symbolic regression framework that derives physically interpretable expressions directly from multi-spectral remote sensing imagery. Unlike traditional empirical indices or black-box learning models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Zhenyu Yu , Mohd. Yamani Idna Idris , Pei Wang , Yuelong Xia , Fei Ma , Rizwan Qureshi

Genetic Programming (GP) has traditionally entangled the evolution of symbolic representations with their performance-based evaluation, often relying solely on raw fitness scores. This tight coupling makes GP solutions more fragile and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Nam H. Le , Josh Bongard

Symbolic regression, a task discovering the formula best fitting the given data, is typically based on the heuristical search. These methods usually update candidate formulas to obtain new ones with lower prediction errors iteratively.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Zihan Yu , Jingtao Ding , Yong Li , Depeng Jin

This paper shows how a Graph Neural Network (GNN) can be used to learn an Inverse Kinematics (IK) based on an automatically generated dataset. The generated Inverse Kinematics is generalized to a family of manipulators with the same Degree…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Pravin Pandey , Julia Reuter , Christoph Steup , Sanaz Mostaghim

Symbolic regression is a powerful tool for knowledge discovery, enabling the extraction of interpretable mathematical expressions directly from data. However, conventional symbolic discovery typically follows an end-to-end, "one-step"…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Mingkun Xia , Weiwei Zhang

We investigate the data-driven discovery of parametric representations for implied volatility slices. Using symbolic regression, we search for simple analytic formulas that approximate the total implied variance as a function of…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-03-24 Martin Keller-Ressel , Hannes Nikulski

For most process systems, knowledge of the model structure is incomplete. This missing physics must then be learned from experimental data. Recently, a combination of universal differential equations and symbolic regression has become a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-15 Arno Strouwen , Sebastián Micluţa-Câmpeanu

Symbolic regression is an important but challenging research topic in data mining. It can detect the underlying mathematical models. Genetic programming (GP) is one of the most popular methods for symbolic regression. However, its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Chen Chen , Changtong Luo , Zonglin Jiang

[RETRACTED]Data increasingly abounds, but distilling their underlying relationships down to something interpretable remains challenging. One approach is genetic programming, which `symbolically regresses' a data set down into an equation.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Amanda Bertschinger , James Bagrow , Joshua Bongard

Nuclear materials are often demanded to function for extended time in extreme environments, including high radiation fluxes and transmutation, high temperature and temperature gradients, stresses, and corrosive coolants. They also have a…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-18 Dane Morgan , Ghanshyam Pilania , Adrien Couet , Blas P. Uberuaga , Cheng Sun , Ju Li

Medical decision-making makes frequent use of algorithms that combine risk equations with rules, providing clear and standardized treatment pathways. Symbolic regression (SR) traditionally limits its search space to continuous function…

Many finance, physics, and engineering phenomena are modeled by continuous-time dynamical systems driven by highly irregular (stochastic) inputs. A powerful tool to perform time series analysis in this context is rooted in rough path theory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Enea Monzio Compagnoni , Anna Scampicchio , Luca Biggio , Antonio Orvieto , Thomas Hofmann , Josef Teichmann

Regression analysis is used for prediction and to understand the effect of independent variables on dependent variables. Symbolic regression (SR) automates the search for non-linear regression models, delivering a set of hypotheses that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Fabricio Olivetti de Franca , Gabriel Kronberger

Understanding physical phenomena oftentimes means understanding the underlying dynamical system that governs observational measurements. While accurate prediction can be achieved with black box systems, they often lack interpretability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Juliane Weilbach , Sebastian Gerwinn , Christian Weilbach , Melih Kandemir

Big data and large-scale machine learning have had a profound impact on science and engineering, particularly in fields focused on forecasting and prediction. Yet, it is still not clear how we can use the superior pattern matching abilities…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-11-22 Dion Häfner , Johannes Gemmrich , Markus Jochum

This chapter opens with a review of classic tools for regression, a subset of machine learning that seeks to find relationships between variables. With the advent of scientific machine learning this field has moved from a purely data-driven…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-02 Miguel A. Mendez

We introduce 'Class Symbolic Regression' (Class SR) a first framework for automatically finding a single analytical functional form that accurately fits multiple datasets - each realization being governed by its own (possibly) unique set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Wassim Tenachi , Rodrigo Ibata , Thibaut L. François , Foivos I. Diakogiannis

Geometric morphometrics (GMM) is widely used to quantify shape variation, more recently serving as input for machine learning (ML) analyses. Standard practice aligns all specimens via Generalized Procrustes Analysis (GPA) prior to splitting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Lloyd Austin Courtenay

In social science, formal and quantitative models, such as ones describing economic growth and collective action, are used to formulate mechanistic explanations, provide predictions, and uncover questions about observed phenomena. Here, we…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Julia Balla , Sihao Huang , Owen Dugan , Rumen Dangovski , Marin Soljacic

We propose a metric learning paradigm, Regression-based Elastic Metric Learning (REML), which optimizes the elastic metric for geodesic regression on the manifold of discrete curves. Geodesic regression is most accurate when the chosen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Adele Myers , Nina Miolane