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Model-based approaches for (bio)process systems often suffer from incomplete knowledge of the underlying physical, chemical, or biological laws. Universal differential equations, which embed neural networks within differential equations,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-20 Arno Strouwen

We present an approach for regression problems that employs analytic continued fractions as a novel representation. Comparative computational results using a memetic algorithm are reported in this work. Our experiments included fifteen…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Pablo Moscato , Haoyuan Sun , Mohammad Nazmul Haque

Symbolic equations are at the core of scientific discovery. The task of discovering the underlying equation from a set of input-output pairs is called symbolic regression. Traditionally, symbolic regression methods use hand-designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Luca Biggio , Tommaso Bendinelli , Alexander Neitz , Aurelien Lucchi , Giambattista Parascandolo

Machine learning models have become firmly established across all scientific fields. Extracting features from data and making inferences based on them with neural network models often yields high accuracy; however, this approach has several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Mikhail Lazarev , Andrey Ustyuzhanin

[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

We introduce the use of high order automatic differentiation, implemented via the algebra of truncated Taylor polynomials, in genetic programming. Using the Cartesian Genetic Programming encoding we obtain a high-order Taylor representation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Dario Izzo , Francesco Biscani , Alessio Mereta

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

Symbolic regression is a powerful technique that can discover analytical equations that describe data, which can lead to explainable models and generalizability outside of the training data set. In contrast, neural networks have achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Samuel Kim , Peter Y. Lu , Srijon Mukherjee , Michael Gilbert , Li Jing , Vladimir Čeperić , Marin Soljačić

Genetic programming (GP) is a commonly used approach to solve symbolic regression (SR) problems. Compared with the machine learning or deep learning methods that depend on the pre-defined model and the training dataset for solving SR…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Baihe He , Qiang Lu , Qingyun Yang , Jake Luo , Zhiguang Wang

We describe a method for the identification of models for dynamical systems from observational data. The method is based on the concept of symbolic regression and uses genetic programming to evolve a system of ordinary differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Gabriel Kronberger , Lukas Kammerer , Michael Kommenda

Symbolic regression corresponds to an ensemble of techniques that allow to uncover an analytical equation from data. Through a closed form formula, these techniques provide great advantages such as potential scientific discovery of new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Ismail Alaoui Abdellaoui , Siamak Mehrkanoon

Symbolic regression aims to find a function that best explains the relationship between independent variables and the objective value based on a given set of sample data. Genetic programming (GP) is usually considered as an appropriate…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Changtong Luo , Chen Chen , Zonglin Jiang

Symbolic regression via genetic programming is a flexible approach to machine learning that does not require up-front specification of model structure. However, traditional approaches to symbolic regression require the use of protected…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Grant Dick

Discovering valid and meaningful mathematical equations from observed data plays a crucial role in scientific discovery. While this task, symbolic regression, remains challenging due to the vast search space and the trade-off between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Xiaoxu Han , Chengzhen Ning , Jinghui Zhong , Fubiao Yang , Yu Wang , Xin Mu

Symbolic regression is a machine learning technique, and it has seen many advancements in recent years, especially in genetic programming approaches (GPSR). Furthermore, it has been known for many years that constant optimization of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 L. G. A dos Reis , V. L. P. S. Caminha , T. J. P. Penna

Discovering symbolic differential equations from data uncovers fundamental dynamical laws underlying complex systems. However, existing methods often struggle with the vast search space of equations and may produce equations that violate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Jianke Yang , Manu Bhat , Bryan Hu , Yadi Cao , Nima Dehmamy , Robin Walters , Rose Yu

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

In standard genetic programming (stdGP), solutions are varied by modifying their syntax, with uncertain effects on their semantics. Geometric-semantic genetic programming (GSGP), a popular variant of GP, effectively searches the semantic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Philipp Anthes , Dominik Sobania , Franz Rothlauf

The Symbolic Regression (SR) problem, where the goal is to find a regression function that does not have a pre-specified form but is any function that can be composed of a list of operators, is a hard problem in machine learning, both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Vernon Austel , Cristina Cornelio , Sanjeeb Dash , Joao Goncalves , Lior Horesh , Tyler Josephson , Nimrod Megiddo

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