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Holographic Reduced Representations (HRR) are a method for performing symbolic AI on top of real-valued vectors by associating each vector with an abstract concept, and providing mathematical operations to manipulate vectors as if they were…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Ashwinkumar Ganesan , Hang Gao , Sunil Gandhi , Edward Raff , Tim Oates , James Holt , Mark McLean

Finding a concise and interpretable mathematical formula that accurately describes the relationship between each variable and the predicted value in the data is a crucial task in scientific research, as well as a significant challenge in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Yanjie Li , Weijun Li , Lina Yu , Min Wu , Jingyi Liu , Wenqiang Li , Meilan Hao , Shu Wei , Yusong Deng

Numerous phenomenological nuclear models have been proposed to describe specific observables within different regions of the nuclear chart. However, developing a unified model that describes the complex behavior of all nuclei remains an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-14 Jose M. Munoz , Silviu M. Udrescu , Ronald F. Garcia Ruiz

Recent learning-to-plan methods have shown promising results on planning directly from observation space. Yet, their ability to plan for long-horizon tasks is limited by the accuracy of the prediction model. On the other hand, classical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Danfei Xu , Roberto Martín-Martín , De-An Huang , Yuke Zhu , Silvio Savarese , Li Fei-Fei

Recent advances in machine learning have demonstrated an enormous utility of deep learning approaches, particularly Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for materials science. These methods have emerged as powerful tools for high-throughput…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Junchi Liu , Ying Tang , Sergei Tretiak , Wenhui Duan , Liujiang Zhou

A symbolic method for solving linear recurrences of combinatorial and statistical interest is introduced. This method essentially relies on a representation of polynomial sequences as moments of a symbol that looks as the framework of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-22 E. Di Nardo , D. Senato

Reward Machines (RMs) are an established mechanism in Reinforcement Learning (RL) to represent and learn sparse, temporally extended tasks with non-Markovian rewards. RMs rely on high-level information in the form of labels that are emitted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Thomas Krug , Daniel Neider

Soft random sampling (SRS) is a simple yet effective approach for efficient training of large-scale deep neural networks when dealing with massive data. SRS selects a subset uniformly at random with replacement from the full data set in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Xiaodong Cui , Ashish Mittal , Songtao Lu , Wei Zhang , George Saon , Brian Kingsbury

It is well-known that neural networks are computationally hard to train. On the other hand, in practice, modern day neural networks are trained efficiently using SGD and a variety of tricks that include different activation functions (e.g.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Roi Livni , Shai Shalev-Shwartz , Ohad Shamir

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

The goal in Symbolic Regression (SR) is to discover expressions that accurately map input to output data. Because often the intent is to understand these expressions, there is a trade-off between accuracy and the interpretability of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Joe Harrison , Peter A. N. Bosman , Tanja Alderliesten

In this paper, we consider the problem of event classification with multi-variate time series data consisting of heterogeneous (continuous and categorical) variables. The complex temporal dependencies between the variables combined with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Shengdong Zhang , Soheil Bahrampour , Naveen Ramakrishnan , Mohak Shah

Discovering governing equations of complex network dynamics is a fundamental challenge in contemporary science with rich data, which can uncover the mysterious patterns and mechanisms of the formation and evolution of complex phenomena in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jiao Hu , Jiaxu Cui , Bo Yang

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

Collective behaviors are typically hard to model. The scale of the swarm, the large number of interactions, and the richness and complexity of the behaviors are factors that make it difficult to distill a collective behavior into simple…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Stephen Powers , Carlo Pinciroli

Symbolic Regression (SR) is a well-established framework for generating interpretable or white-box predictive models. Although SR has been successfully applied to create interpretable estimates of the average of the outcome, it is currently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Cas Oude Hoekstra , Floris den Hengst

A fundamental challenge in symbolic regression (SR) is efficiently recovering complex mathematical expressions from observational data. Although this problem is NP-hard, many expressions of practical interest decompose naturally into…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zhiming Yu , Wangtao Lu , Xin Lai

Symbolic regression, i.e. predicting a function from the observation of its values, is well-known to be a challenging task. In this paper, we train Transformers to infer the function or recurrence relation underlying sequences of integers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Stéphane d'Ascoli , Pierre-Alexandre Kamienny , Guillaume Lample , François Charton

Recent work on recommender systems has considered external knowledge graphs as valuable sources of information, not only to produce better recommendations but also to provide explanations of why the recommended items were chosen. Pure…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Yikun Xian , Zuohui Fu , Qiaoying Huang , S. Muthukrishnan , Yongfeng Zhang

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