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Symbolic Regression aims to automatically identify compact and interpretable mathematical expressions that model the functional relationship between input and output variables. Most existing search-based symbolic regression methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Jianwen Sun , Xinrui Li , Fuqing Li , Xiaoxuan Shen

Symbolic regression refers to the task of finding a closed-form mathematical expression to fit a set of data points. Genetic programming based techniques are the most common algorithms used to tackle this problem, but recently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Ryan T. Tymkow , Benjamin D. Schnapp , Mojtaba Valipour , Ali Ghodshi

To deal with non-linear relations between the predictors and the response, we can use transformations to make the data look linear or approximately linear. In practice, however, transformation methods may be ineffective, and it may be more…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-02 Mithun Kumar Acharjee , Kumer Pial Das

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the state-of-the-art method to learn from image data. However, recent research shows that they may include a texture and colour bias in their representation, contrary to the intuition that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Francis Brochu

Symbolic regression plays a crucial role in modern scientific research thanks to its capability of discovering concise and interpretable mathematical expressions from data. A key challenge lies in the search for parsimonious and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Kai Ruan , Yilong Xu , Ze-Feng Gao , Yike Guo , Hao Sun , Ji-Rong Wen , Yang Liu

A Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is a framework used for modeling and solving constrained problems. Tree-search algorithms like backtracking try to construct a solution to a CSP by selecting the variables of the problem one after…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-10-06 Muhammad Rezaul Karim

With this paper, we contribute to the growing research area of feature-based analysis of bio-inspired computing. In this research area, problem instances are classified according to different features of the underlying problem in terms of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-10 Shayan Poursoltan , Frank Neumann

In addition to their undisputed success in solving classical optimization problems, neuroevolutionary and population-based algorithms have become an alternative to standard reinforcement learning methods. However, evolutionary methods often…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Jörg Stork , Martin Zaefferer , Nils Eisler , Patrick Tichelmann , Thomas Bartz-Beielstein , A. E. Eiben

This article introduces a new symbolic regression algorithm based on the SPINEX (Similarity-based Predictions with Explainable Neighbors Exploration) family. This new algorithm (SPINEX_SymbolicRegression) adopts a similarity-based approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 MZ Naser , Ahmed Z Naser

Resource constrained job scheduling is a hard combinatorial optimisation problem that originates in the mining industry. Off-the-shelf solvers cannot solve this problem satisfactorily in reasonable timeframes, while other solution methods…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Su Nguyen , Dhananjay Thiruvady , Yuan Sun , Mengjie Zhang

We give an algorithm to compute a one-dimensional shape-constrained function that best fits given data in weighted-$L_{\infty}$ norm. We give a single algorithm that works for a variety of commonly studied shape constraints including…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-30 David Durfee , Yu Gao , Anup B. Rao , Sebastian Wild

Symbolic regression, as one of the most crucial tasks in AI for science, discovers governing equations from experimental data. Popular approaches based on genetic programming, Monte Carlo tree search, or deep reinforcement learning learn…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Nan Jiang , Yexiang Xue

In this paper, we propose a constraint-based modeling approach for the problem of discovering frequent gradual patterns in a numerical dataset. This SAT-based declarative approach offers an additional possibility to benefit from the recent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Jerry Lonlac , Saïdd Jabbour , Engelbert Mephu Nguifo , Lakhdar Saïs , Badran Raddaoui

In [1], we have explored the theoretical aspects of feature selection and evolutionary algorithms. In this chapter, we focus on optimization algorithms for enhancing data analytic process, i.e., we propose to explore applications of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Farid Ghareh Mohammadi , M. Hadi Amini , Hamid R. Arabnia

Symbolic regression has recently gained traction in AI-driven scientific discovery, aiming to recover explicit closed-form expressions from data that reveal underlying physical laws. Despite recent advances, existing methods remain…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-02 Somjit Roy , Pritam Dey , Bani K. Mallick

The search for symbolic regression models with genetic programming (GP) has a tendency of revisiting expressions in their original or equivalent forms. Repeatedly evaluating equivalent expressions is inefficient, as it does not immediately…

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

In this paper, we propose a constrained linear data-feature mapping model as an interpretable mathematical model for image classification using convolutional neural network (CNN) such as the ResNet. From this viewpoint, we establish the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Juncai He , Yuyan Chen , Lian Zhang , Jinchao Xu

Symbolic Regression (SR) is a type of regression analysis to automatically find the mathematical expression that best fits the data. Currently, SR still basically relies on various searching strategies so that a sample-specific model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Jiachen Li , Ye Yuan , Hong-Bin Shen

Data driven models of dynamical systems help planners and controllers to provide more precise and accurate motions. Most model learning algorithms will try to minimize a loss function between the observed data and the model's predictions.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Clark Zhang , Santiago Paternain , Alejandro Ribeiro

Neuroscience has recently made much progress, expanding the complexity of both neural-activity measurements and brain-computational models. However, we lack robust methods for connecting theory and experiment by evaluating our new big…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-06 Heiko H. Schütt , Alexander D. Kipnis , Jörn Diedrichsen , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte