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Advances in Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming (GSGP) have shown that this variant of Genetic Programming (GP) reaches better results than its predecessor for supervised machine learning problems, particularly in the task of symbolic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Joao Francisco B. S. Martins , Luiz Otavio V. B. Oliveira , Luis F. Miranda , Felipe Casadei , Gisele L. Pappa

Symbolic regression (SR) with genetic programming (GP) aims to discover interpretable mathematical expressions directly from data. Despite its strong empirical success, the theoretical understanding of why GP-based SR generalizes beyond the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Masahiro Nomura , Ryoki Hamano , Isao Ono

Symbolic regression is a powerful tool for discovering governing equations directly from data, but its sensitivity to noise hinders its broader application. This paper introduces a Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) framework for Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Geoffrey F. Bomarito , Patrick E. Leser

Symbolic regression (SR) aims to discover concise closed-form mathematical equations from data, a task fundamental to scientific discovery. However, the problem is highly challenging because closed-form equations lie in a complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Samuel Holt , Zhaozhi Qian , Mihaela van der Schaar

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

Identifying governing equations for a dynamical system is a topic of critical interest across an array of disciplines, from mathematics to engineering to biology. Machine learning -- specifically deep learning -- techniques have shown their…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Nibodh Boddupalli , Timothy Matchen , Jeff Moehlis

Friction systems are mechanical systems wherein friction is used for force transmission (e.g. mechanical braking systems or automatic gearboxes). For finding optimal and safe design parameters, engineers have to predict friction system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Gabriel Kronberger , Michael Kommenda , Andreas Promberger , Falk Nickel

Structured output representation is a generative task explored in computer vision that often times requires the mapping of low dimensional features to high dimensional structured outputs. Losses in complex spatial information in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Mohamed Debbagh

Interpretable regression models are important for many application domains, as they allow experts to understand relations between variables from sparse data. Symbolic regression addresses this issue by searching the space of all possible…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Marcus Märtens , Dario Izzo

We challenge black-box purely deep neural approaches for molecules and graph generation, which are limited in controllability and lack formal guarantees. We introduce Neuro-Symbolic Graph Generative Modeling (NSGGM), a neurosymbolic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Chuqin Geng , Li Zhang , Mark Zhang , Haolin Ye , Ziyu Zhao , Xujie Si

Compact symbolic expressions have been shown to be more efficient than neural network models in terms of resource consumption and inference speed when implemented on custom hardware such as FPGAs, while maintaining comparable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Ho Fung Tsoi , Vladimir Loncar , Sridhara Dasu , Philip Harris

We present a novel multivariate classification technique based on Genetic Programming. The technique is distinct from Genetic Algorithms and offers several advantages compared to Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines. The technique…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-10 Kyle Cranmer , R. Sean Bowman

Many recent studies focus on developing mechanisms to explain the black-box behaviors of neural networks (NNs). However, little work has been done to extract the potential hidden semantics (mathematical representation) of a neural network.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Yuanzhen Luo , Qiang Lu , Xilei Hu , Jake Luo , Zhiguang Wang

Enhanced sampling simulations make the computational study of rare events feasible. A large family of such methods crucially depends on the definition of some collective variables (CVs) that could provide a low-dimensional representation of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Jintu Zhang , Luigi Bonati , Enrico Trizio , Odin Zhang , Yu Kang , TingJun Hou , Michele Parrinello

This paper proposes a hybrid basis function construction method (GP-RVM) for Symbolic Regression problem, which combines an extended version of Genetic Programming called Kaizen Programming and Relevance Vector Machine to evolve an optimal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Hossein Izadi Rad , Ji Feng , Hitoshi Iba

Designing reward functions is a challenging problem in AI and robotics. Humans usually have a difficult time directly specifying all the desirable behaviors that a robot needs to optimize. One common approach is to learn reward functions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Erdem Bıyık , Nicolas Huynh , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Dorsa Sadigh

Symbolic regression seeks to uncover physical laws from experimental data by searching for closed-form expressions, which is an important task in AI-driven scientific discovery. Yet the exponential growth of the search space of expression…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Nan Jiang , Ziyi Wang , Yexiang Xue

Genetic programming is an evolutionary approach known for its performance in program synthesis. However, it is not yet mature enough for a practical use in real-world software development, since usually many training cases are required to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Dominik Sobania , Martin Briesch , Philipp Röchner , Franz Rothlauf

[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

In recent years, genetic programming (GP)-based evolutionary feature construction has achieved significant success. However, a primary challenge with evolutionary feature construction is its tendency to overfit the training data, resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Hengzhe Zhang , Qi Chen , Bing Xue , Wolfgang Banzhaf , Mengjie Zhang