English
Related papers

Related papers: Discovering Interpretable Physical Models using Sy…

200 papers

Symbolic regression (SR) models complex systems by discovering mathematical expressions that capture underlying relationships in observed data. However, most SR methods prioritize minimizing prediction error over identifying the governing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Giorgio Morales , John W. Sheppard

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

The modern machine learning methods allow one to obtain the data-driven models in various ways. However, the more complex the model is, the harder it is to interpret. In the paper, we describe the algorithm for the mathematical equations…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Alexander Hvatov , Mikhail Maslyaev

Numerous phenomenological nuclear models have been proposed to describe specific observables within different regions of the nuclear chart. However, developing a unified model that describes the complex behavior of all nuclei remains an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-14 Jose M. Munoz , Silviu M. Udrescu , Ronald F. Garcia Ruiz

Modeling stochastic differential equations (SDEs) is crucial for understanding complex dynamical systems in various scientific fields. Recent methods often employ neural network-based models, which typically represent SDEs through a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Senwei Liang , Chunmei Wang , Xingjian Xu

For most process systems, knowledge of the model structure is incomplete. This missing physics must then be learned from experimental data. Recently, a combination of universal differential equations and symbolic regression has become a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-15 Arno Strouwen , Sebastián Micluţa-Câmpeanu

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 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

We propose Derivative Learning (DERL), a supervised approach that models physical systems by learning their partial derivatives. We also leverage DERL to build physical models incrementally, by designing a distillation protocol that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Alessandro Trenta , Andrea Cossu , Davide Bacciu

The data-driven discovery of interpretable models approximating the underlying dynamics of a physical system has gained attraction in the past decade. Current approaches employ pre-specified functional forms or basis functions and often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Rahul Golder , M. M. Faruque Hasan

Symbolic regression is a powerful system identification technique in industrial scenarios where no prior knowledge on model structure is available. Such scenarios often require specific model properties such as interpretability, robustness,…

Discovering interpretable physical laws from high-dimensional data is a fundamental challenge in scientific research. Traditional methods, such as symbolic regression, often produce complex, unphysical formulas when searching a vast space…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Yifeng Guan , Chuyi Liu , Dongzhan Zhou , Lei Bai , Wan-jian Yin , Jingyuan Li , Mao Su

Nonlinear dynamics is a pervasive phenomenon observed in scientific and engineering disciplines. However, the task of deriving analytical expressions to describe nonlinear dynamics from limited data remains challenging. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Zhongyi Jiang , Chunmei Wang , Haizhao Yang

Many scientific phenomena are modeled by Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). The development of data gathering tools along with the advances in machine learning (ML) techniques have raised opportunities for data-driven identification of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Kazem Meidani , Amir Barati Farimani

Many real-world systems can be described by mathematical models that are human-comprehensible, easy to analyze and help explain the system's behavior. Symbolic regression is a method that can automatically generate such models from data.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Jiří Kubalík , Erik Derner , Robert Babuška

We demonstrate the efficacy of symbolic regression (SR) to probe models of particle physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM), by considering the so-called Constrained Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (CMSSM). Like many incarnations of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-24 Shehu AbdusSalam , Steven Abel , Deaglan Bartlett , Miguel Crispim Romão

Modeling complex spatiotemporal dynamics, particularly in far-from-equilibrium systems, remains a grand challenge in science. The governing partial differential equations (PDEs) for these systems are often intractable to derive from first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Xizhe Wang , Xiaobin Song , Qingshan Jia , Hao Sun , Hongbo Zhao , Benben Jiang

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

Learning models of dynamical systems with external inputs, which may be, for example, nonsmooth or piecewise, is crucial for studying complex phenomena and predicting future state evolution, which is essential for applications such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Zhaoyi Li , Wenjie Mei , Ke Yu , Yang Bai , Shihua Li

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