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Symbolic regression (SR) aims to discover the underlying mathematical expressions that explain observed data. This holds promise for both gaining scientific insight and for producing inherently interpretable and generalizable models for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 David Otte , Jörg K. H. Franke , Arbër Zela , Fábio Ferreira , Frank Hutter

When choosing between competing symbolic models for a data set, a human will naturally prefer the "simpler" expression or the one which more closely resembles equations previously seen in a similar context. This suggests a non-uniform prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Deaglan J. Bartlett , Harry Desmond , Pedro G. Ferreira

Symbolic Regression tries to find a mathematical expression that describes the relationship of a set of explanatory variables to a measured variable. The main objective is to find a model that minimizes the error and, optionally, that also…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Fabricio Olivetti de Franca

Symbolic Regression (SR) offers an interpretable alternative to conventional Machine-Learning (ML) approaches, which are often criticized as ``black boxes''. In contrast to standard regression models that require a prescribed functional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Theofanis Aravanis , Grigorios Chrimatopoulos , Mohammad Ferdows , Michalis Xenos , Efstratios Em Tzirtzilakis

Symbolic regression is essential for deriving interpretable expressions that elucidate complex phenomena by exposing the underlying mathematical and physical relationships in data. In this paper, we present an advanced symbolic regression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Sikai Huang , Yixin Berry Wen , Tara Adusumilli , Kusum Choudhary , Haizhao Yang

In the realm of machine and deep learning regression tasks, the role of effective feature engineering (FE) is pivotal in enhancing model performance. Traditional approaches of FE often rely on domain expertise to manually design features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Assaf Shmuel , Oren Glickman , Teddy Lazebnik

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

Mathematical formulas serve as a language through which humans communicate with nature. Discovering mathematical laws from scientific data to describe natural phenomena has been a long-standing pursuit of humanity for centuries. In the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yanjie Li , Liping Zhang , Min Wu , Weijun Li , Lina Yu , Jingyi Liu , Yusong Deng , Mingzhu Wan , Xin Ning

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…

Symbolic regression (SR) aims to discover interpretable analytical expressions that accurately describe observed data. Amortized SR promises to be much more efficient than the predominant genetic programming SR methods, but currently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Paul Saegert , Ullrich Köthe

In science, we are interested not only in forecasting but also in understanding how predictions are made, specifically what the interpretable underlying model looks like. Data-driven machine learning technology can significantly streamline…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Weiting Liu , Jiaxu Cui , Jiao Hu , En Wang , Bo Yang

In Bayesian regression models with categorical predictors, constraints are needed to ensure identifiability when using all $K$ levels of a factor. The sum-to-zero constraint is particularly useful as it allows coefficients to represent…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-15 Zhi Ling , Shozen Dan

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

The reconstruction of particle tracks from hits in tracking detectors is a computationally intensive task due to the large combinatorics of detector signals. Recent efforts have proven that ML techniques can be successfully applied to the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-11-19 Nathalie Soybelman , Carlo Schiavi , Francesco A. Di Bello , Eilam Gross

Symbolic regression is a fundamental tool for discovering interpretable mathematical expressions from data, with broad applications across scientific and engineering domains. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Runxiang Wang , Boxiao Wang , Kai Li , Yifan Zhang , Jian Cheng

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

In recent years, symbolic regression has been of wide interest to provide an interpretable symbolic representation of potentially large data relationships. Initially circled to genetic algorithms, symbolic regression methods now include a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Laure Crochepierre , Lydia Boudjeloud-Assala , Vincent Barbesant

Effective model selection is critical in symbolic regression (SR) to identify mathematical expressions that balance accuracy and complexity, and have low expected error on unseen data. Many modern implementations of genetic programming (GP)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ali Soltani , Gabriel Kronberger , Fabricio Olivetti de Franca , Mattia Billa , Alessandro Lucantonio

Symbolic regression (SR) aims to discover closed-form mathematical expressions that accurately describe data, offering interpretability and analytical insight beyond standard black-box models. Existing SR methods often rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Mansooreh Montazerin , Majd Al Aawar , Antonio Ortega , Ajitesh Srivastava

Symbolic regression automates the process of learning closed-form mathematical models from data. Standard approaches to symbolic regression, as well as newer deep learning approaches, rely on heuristic model selection criteria, heuristic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-29 Roger Guimera , Marta Sales-Pardo
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