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Experience in the physical sciences suggests that the only realistic means of understanding complex systems is through the use of mathematical models. Typically, this has come to mean the identification of quantitative models expressed as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-11-02 George M. Coghill , Ross D. King , Ashwin Srinivasan

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

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is well-suited for runtime decision-making in optimizing the performance of systems where multiple agents coexist and compete for shared resources. However, applying common deep learning-based MARL…

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

We propose and study a method for learning interpretable representations for the task of regression. Features are represented as networks of multi-type expression trees comprised of activation functions common in neural networks in addition…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-26 William La Cava , Tilak Raj Singh , James Taggart , Srinivas Suri , Jason H. Moore

Bridging continuous perceptual signals and discrete symbolic reasoning is a fundamental challenge in AI systems that must operate under uncertainty. We present a neuro-symbolic framework that explicitly models and propagates uncertainty…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jiahao Wu , Shengwen Yu

Neural network-based policies have demonstrated success in many robotic applications, but often lack human-explanability, which poses challenges in safety-critical deployments. To address this, we propose a neuro-symbolic explanation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Mikihisa Yuasa , Ramavarapu S. Sreenivas , Huy T. Tran

We explore a data-driven approach for learning to optimize neural networks. We construct a dataset of neural network checkpoints and train a generative model on the parameters. In particular, our model is a conditional diffusion transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 William Peebles , Ilija Radosavovic , Tim Brooks , Alexei A. Efros , Jitendra Malik

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…

This paper discusses an approach for incorporating prior physical knowledge into the neural network to improve data efficiency and the generalization of predictive models. If the dynamics of a system approximately follows a given…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Andrei Ivanov , Uwe Iben , Anna Golovkina

Symbolic models have recently spurred the interest of the research community because they offer a correct-by-design approach to the control of embedded and cyber-physical systems. In this paper we address construction of symbolic models for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-15 Giordano Pola , Pierdomenico Pepe , Maria Domenica Di Benedetto

We showcase the potential of symbolic regression as an analytic method for use in materials research. First, we briefly describe the current state-of-the-art method, genetic programming-based symbolic regression (GPSR), and recent advances…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-02 Yiqun Wang , Nicholas Wagner , James M. Rondinelli

Neurosymbolic AI combines the interpretability, parsimony, and explicit reasoning of classical symbolic approaches with the statistical learning of data-driven neural approaches. Models and policies that are simultaneously differentiable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Peter Graf , Patrick Emami

Deep neural networks have emerged as the workhorse for a large section of robotics and control applications, especially as models for dynamical systems. Such data-driven models are in turn used for designing and verifying autonomous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Kaustubh Sridhar , Souradeep Dutta , James Weimer , Insup Lee

We introduce an Invertible Symbolic Regression (ISR) method. It is a machine learning technique that generates analytical relationships between inputs and outputs of a given dataset via invertible maps (or architectures). The proposed ISR…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Tony Tohme , Mohammad Javad Khojasteh , Mohsen Sadr , Florian Meyer , Kamal Youcef-Toumi

We introduce Boolformer, a Transformer-based model trained to perform end-to-end symbolic regression of Boolean functions. First, we show that it can predict compact formulas for complex functions not seen during training, given their full…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Stéphane d'Ascoli , Arthur Renard , Vassilis Papadopoulos , Samy Bengio , Josh Susskind , Emmanuel Abbé

Logistic regression models are a popular and effective method to predict the probability of categorical response data. However inference for these models can become computationally prohibitive for large datasets. Here we adapt ideas from…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-08-25 Tom Whitaker , Boris Beranger , Scott A. Sisson

Dynamical systems see widespread use in natural sciences like physics, biology, chemistry, as well as engineering disciplines such as circuit analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and control. For simple systems, the differential…

We demonstrate the use of symbolic regression in deriving analytical formulas, which are needed at various stages of a typical experimental analysis in collider phenomenology. As a first application, we consider kinematic variables like the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-29 Zhongtian Dong , Kyoungchul Kong , Konstantin T. Matchev , Katia Matcheva

We present a Machine Learning approach based on Symbolic Regression to derive, from either numerically generated or experimentally measured spectral data, closed-form expressions that model the optical properties of biological materials. To…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Julian Sierra-Velez , Alexandre Vial , Marina Inchaussandague , Diana Skigin , Demetrio Macías