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In some real world situations, linear models are not sufficient to represent accurately complex relations between input variables and output variables of a studied system. Multilayer Perceptrons are one of the most successful non-linear…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2008-02-05 Fabrice Rossi , Brieuc Conan-Guez

Symbolic regression (SR) methods attempt to learn mathematical expressions that approximate the behavior of an observed system. However, when dealing with multivariate systems, they often fail to identify the functional form that explains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Giorgio Morales , John W. Sheppard

Symbolic regression is essential for deriving interpretable expressions that elucidate complex phenomena by exposing the underlying mathematical and physical relationships in data. In this paper, we present an advanced symbolic regression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Sikai Huang , Yixin Berry Wen , Tara Adusumilli , Kusum Choudhary , Haizhao Yang

We propose SHARC, a novel framework that synthesizes arbitrary, genus-agnostic shapes by means of a collection of Spherical Harmonic (SH) representations of distance fields. These distance fields are anchored at optimally placed reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Panagiotis Sapoutzoglou , George Terzakis , Maria Pateraki

Growing interest in modelling complex systems from brains to societies to cities using networks has led to increased efforts to describe generative processes that explain those networks. Recent successes in machine learning have prompted…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Govind Gandhi

Symbolic regression automates the process of learning closed-form mathematical models from data. Standard approaches to symbolic regression, as well as newer deep learning approaches, rely on heuristic model selection criteria, heuristic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-29 Roger Guimera , Marta Sales-Pardo

Symbolic Regression (SR) is a powerful technique for automatically discovering mathematical expressions from input data. Mainstream SR algorithms search for the optimal symbolic tree in a vast function space, but the increasing complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xinxin Li , Juan Zhang , Da Li , Xingyu Liu , Jin Xu , Junping Yin

Progress in GANs has enabled the generation of high-resolution photorealistic images of astonishing quality. StyleGANs allow for compelling attribute modification on such images via mathematical operations on the latent style vectors in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Tejan Karmali , Rishubh Parihar , Susmit Agrawal , Harsh Rangwani , Varun Jampani , Maneesh Singh , R. Venkatesh Babu

This thesis arises in the context of precision measurements at hadron colliders. The Tevatron and the LHC provide very accurate measurements of many Standard Model processes, such as the production of a lepton pair (Drell-Yan) of high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-04 Marco Bonvini

Symbolic regression, the task of extracting mathematical expressions from the observed data $\{ \vx_i, y_i \}$, plays a crucial role in scientific discovery. Despite the promising performance of existing methods, most of them conduct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Pengwei Jin , Di Huang , Rui Zhang , Xing Hu , Ziyuan Nan , Zidong Du , Qi Guo , Yunji Chen

We extend our work for compression of currents and varifolds to a compression algorithm for the embedded normal cycles representation of shape, restricted to the constant normal kernel case, using the Nystrom approximation in Reproducing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Allen Paul , Neill Campbell , Tony Shardlow

In this paper, we present a machine learning method for the discovery of analytic solutions to differential equations. The method utilizes an inherently interpretable algorithm, genetic programming based symbolic regression. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Hongsup Oh , Roman Amici , Geoffrey Bomarito , Shandian Zhe , Robert Kirby , Jacob Hochhalter

This study explores the use of symbolic regression (SR) combined with genetic algorithms (GA) to classify astronomical objects. Using the SDSS17 dataset from Kaggle, which includes 100,000 observations of stars, galaxies, and quasars, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-14 Fabio R. Llorella , José A. Cebrián

We will recall the main feaatures of an accurate phenomenological model to describe successfully near-forward elastic scattering in a wide energy range, including ISR, SPS and Tevatron colliders. A large step in energy domain is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Jacques Soffer , Claude Bourrely , Tai Tsun Wu

In real-world applications with large state and action spaces, reinforcement learning (RL) typically employs function approximations to represent core components like the policies, value functions, and dynamics models. Although powerful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Chenxiao Gao , Haotian Sun , Na Li , Dale Schuurmans , Bo Dai

Symbolic regression discovers explicit, interpretable equations without assuming a functional form in advance. A Bayesian approach strengthens this through probability distributions over candidate expressions, thus quantifying uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 James Butterworth , Gevik Grigorian , Alejandro DiazDelaO

We present a framework for constraining the automatic sequential generation of equations to obey the rules of dimensional analysis by construction. Combining this approach with reinforcement learning, we built $\Phi$-SO, a Physical Symbolic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Wassim Tenachi , Rodrigo Ibata , Foivos I. Diakogiannis

A key objective in the field of artificial intelligence is to develop cognitive models that can exhibit human-like intellectual capabilities. One promising approach to achieving this is through neural-symbolic systems, which combine the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Dongran Yu , Xueyan Liu , Shirui Pan , Anchen Li , Bo Yang

It is clear that conventional statistical inference protocols need to be revised to deal correctly with the high-dimensional data that are now common. Most recent studies aimed at achieving this revision rely on powerful approximation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Alexander Mozeika , Mansoor Sheikh , Fabian Aguirre-Lopez , Fabrizio Antenucci , Anthony CC Coolen

Symbolic regression is a machine learning method with the goal to produce interpretable results. Unlike other machine learning methods such as, e.g. random forests or neural networks, which are opaque, symbolic regression aims to model and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yousef A. Radwan , Gabriel Kronberger , Stephan Winkler