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To learn about real world phenomena, scientists have traditionally used models with clearly interpretable elements. However, modern machine learning (ML) models, while powerful predictors, lack this direct elementwise interpretability (e.g.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-16 Timo Freiesleben , Gunnar König , Christoph Molnar , Alvaro Tejero-Cantero

Machine learning algorithms such as linear regression, SVM and neural network have played an increasingly important role in the process of scientific discovery. However, none of them is both interpretable and accurate on nonlinear datasets.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-10-31 Chengyu Liu , Wei Wang

Though neural networks trained on large datasets have been successfully used to describe and predict many physical phenomena, there is a sense among scientists that, unlike traditional scientific models comprising simple mathematical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Conor Rowan , Alireza Doostan

High-stakes applications require AI-generated models to be interpretable. Current algorithms for the synthesis of potentially interpretable models rely on objectives or regularization terms that represent interpretability only coarsely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Marco Virgolin , Andrea De Lorenzo , Francesca Randone , Eric Medvet , Mattias Wahde

We explore the use of symbolic regression to derive compact analytical expressions for angular observables relevant to electroweak boson production at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Focusing on the angular coefficients that govern the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-05 Josh Bendavid , Daniel Conde , Manuel Morales-Alvarado , Veronica Sanz , Maria Ubiali

PiML (read $\pi$-ML, /`pai`em`el/) is an integrated and open-access Python toolbox for interpretable machine learning model development and model diagnostics. It is designed with machine learning workflows in both low-code and high-code…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Agus Sudjianto , Aijun Zhang , Zebin Yang , Yu Su , Ningzhou Zeng

Symbolic regression is the machine learning method for learning functions from data. After a brief overview of the symbolic regression landscape, I will describe the two main challenges that traditional algorithms face: they have an unknown…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 Harry Desmond

In this work, we revisit dictionary-based sparse regression, in particular, Sequential Threshold Least Squares (STLS), and propose a score-guided library selection to provide practical guidance for data-driven modeling, with emphasis on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-17 Hangjun Cho , Fabio V. G. Amaral , Andrei A. Klishin , Cassio M. Oishi , Steven L. Brunton

SMLP: Symbolic Machine Learning Prover an open source tool for exploration and optimization of systems represented by machine learning models. SMLP uses symbolic reasoning for ML model exploration and optimization under verification and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Franz Brauße , Zurab Khasidashvili , Konstantin Korovin

Reinforcement learning (RL) aims to learn and evaluate a sequential decision rule, often referred to as a "policy", that maximizes the population-level benefit in an environment across possibly infinitely many time steps. However, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-09 Jianhan Zhang , Jitao Wang , Chengchun Shi , John D. Piette , Donglin Zeng , Zhenke Wu

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are ubiquitous in the world around us, modelling phenomena from heat and sound to quantum systems. Recent advances in deep learning have resulted in the development of powerful neural solvers; however,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Yolanne Yi Ran Lee

Symbolic Machine Learning Prover (SMLP) is a tool and a library for system exploration based on data samples obtained by simulating or executing the system on a number of input vectors. SMLP aims at exploring the system based on this data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Franz Brauße , Zurab Khasidashvili , Konstantin Korovin

As machine learning models are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains, the need for interpretability has grown to meet strict regulatory and accountability constraints. Despite this interest, systematic evaluations of inherently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Mattia Billa , Giovanni Orlandi , Veronica Guidetti , Federica Mandreoli

Symbolic regression (SR) searches for parametric models that accurately fit a dataset, prioritizing simplicity and interpretability. Despite this secondary objective, studies point out that the models are often overly complex due to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Guilherme Seidyo Imai Aldeia , Fabricio Olivetti de Franca , William G. La Cava

Interpretable machine learning techniques are becoming essential tools for extracting physical insights from complex quantum data. We build on recent advances in variational autoencoders to demonstrate that such models can learn physically…

The recomputability and reproducibility of results from scientific software requires access to both the source code and all associated input and output data. However, the full collection of these resources often does not accompany the key…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-12-24 Christian T. Jacobs , Alexandros Avdis , Gerard J. Gorman , Matthew D. Piggott

From human physiology to environmental evolution, important processes in nature often exhibit meaningful and strong periodic or quasi-periodic changes. Due to their inherent label scarcity, learning useful representations for periodic tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Yuzhe Yang , Xin Liu , Jiang Wu , Silviu Borac , Dina Katabi , Ming-Zher Poh , Daniel McDuff

In this work we detail a novel open source library, called MMLSpark, that combines the flexible deep learning library Cognitive Toolkit, with the distributed computing framework Apache Spark. To achieve this, we have contributed Java…

Symbolic Regression (SR) is a machine learning approach that explores the space of mathematical expressions to identify those that best fit a given dataset, balancing both accuracy and simplicity. We apply SR to the study of Gray-Body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-15 Guan-Wen Yuan , Marco Calzà , Davide Pedrotti

This paper describes a new method for Symbolic Regression that allows to find mathematical expressions from a dataset. This method has a strong mathematical basis. As opposed to other methods such as Genetic Programming, this method is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Daniel Rivero , Enrique Fernandez-Blanco