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Survival Regression (SuR) is a key technique for modeling time to event in important applications such as clinical trials and semiconductor manufacturing. Currently, SuR algorithms belong to one of three classes: non-linear black-box --…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Luigi Rovito , Marco Virgolin

Symbolic regression aims to find interpretable analytical expressions by searching over mathematical formula spaces to capture underlying system behavior, particularly in scientific modeling governed by physical laws. However, traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Yunpeng Gong , Sihan Lan , Can Yang , Kunpeng Xu , Min Jiang

The reconstruction of particle tracks from hits in tracking detectors is a computationally intensive task due to the large combinatorics of detector signals. Recent efforts have proven that ML techniques can be successfully applied to the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-11-19 Nathalie Soybelman , Carlo Schiavi , Francesco A. Di Bello , Eilam Gross

Model-based reinforcement learning (RL) has proven to be a data efficient approach for learning control tasks but is difficult to utilize in domains with complex observations such as images. In this paper, we present a method for learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Marvin Zhang , Sharad Vikram , Laura Smith , Pieter Abbeel , Matthew J. Johnson , Sergey Levine

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

Turbulence modeling within the RANS equations' framework is essential in engineering due to its high efficiency. Field inversion and machine learning (FIML) techniques have improved RANS models' predictive capabilities for separated flows.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-29 Chenyu Wu , Yufei Zhang

Symbolic Regression (SR) enables the discovery of interpretable mathematical relationships from experimental and simulation data. These relationships are often coined descriptors which are defined as a fundamental materials property that is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Udaykumar Gajera , Mohsen Sotoudeh , Kanchan Sarkar , Axel Groß

It is common to utilise dynamic models to measure the tyre-road friction in real-time. Alternatively, predictive approaches estimate the tyre-road friction by identifying the environmental factors affecting it. This work aims to formulate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Mohammad Otoofi , William J. B. Midgley , Leo Laine , Henderson Leon , Laura Justham , James Fleming

We study data-driven identification of interpretable hybrid robot dynamics, where an analytical rigid-body dynamics model is complemented by a learned residual torque term. Using symbolic regression and sparse identification of nonlinear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Christopher E. Mower , Rui Zong , Haitham Bou-Ammar

Symbolic regression is emerging as a promising machine learning method for learning succinct underlying interpretable mathematical expressions directly from data. Whereas it has been traditionally tackled with genetic programming, it has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Nour Makke , Sanjay Chawla

Symbolic regression (SR) is the task of learning a model of data in the form of a mathematical expression. By their nature, SR models have the potential to be accurate and human-interpretable at the same time. Unfortunately, finding such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Marco Virgolin , Solon P. Pissis

Symbolic Regression (SR) is a type of regression analysis to automatically find the mathematical expression that best fits the data. Currently, SR still basically relies on various searching strategies so that a sample-specific model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Jiachen Li , Ye Yuan , Hong-Bin Shen

In the realm of machine and deep learning regression tasks, the role of effective feature engineering (FE) is pivotal in enhancing model performance. Traditional approaches of FE often rely on domain expertise to manually design features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Assaf Shmuel , Oren Glickman , Teddy Lazebnik

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

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

This paper presents a novel RL algorithm, S-REINFORCE, which is designed to generate interpretable policies for dynamic decision-making tasks. The proposed algorithm leverages two types of function approximators, namely Neural Network (NN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Rajdeep Dutta , Qincheng Wang , Ankur Singh , Dhruv Kumarjiguda , Li Xiaoli , Senthilnath Jayavelu

Machine learning is rapidly making its path into natural sciences, including high-energy physics. We present the first study that infers, directly from experimental data, a functional form of fragmentation functions. The latter represent a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-14 Nour Makke , Sanjay Chawla

Mathematical formulas are the crystallization of human wisdom in exploring the laws of nature for thousands of years. Describing the complex laws of nature with a concise mathematical formula is a constant pursuit of scientists and a great…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Yanjie Li , Jingyi Liu , Weijun Li , Lina Yu , Min Wu , Wenqiang Li , Meilan Hao , Su Wei , Yusong Deng

Interpretability is crucial for machine learning in many scenarios such as quantitative finance, banking, healthcare, etc. Symbolic regression (SR) is a classic interpretable machine learning method by bridging X and Y using mathematical…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-17 Ying Jin , Weilin Fu , Jian Kang , Jiadong Guo , Jian Guo

Accurate physical simulation is crucial for the development and validation of control algorithms in robotic systems. Recent works in Reinforcement Learning (RL) take notably advantage of extensive simulations to produce efficient robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Marc Duclusaud , Grégoire Passault , Vincent Padois , Olivier Ly