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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

[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

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 introduce a data-driven framework to automatically identify interpretable and physically meaningful hyperelastic constitutive models from sparse data. Leveraging symbolic regression, an algorithm based on genetic programming, our…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jixin Hou , Xianyan Chen , Taotao Wu , Ellen Kuhl , Xianqiao Wang

Symbolic regression (SR) aims to find symbolic expressions that describe datasets. Due to its inherent interpretability, is a powerful paradigm for scientific discovery. Recent advances have expanded SR to describe related phenomena using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Viktor Martinek , Roland Herzog

Symbolic regression is a powerful technique that can discover analytical equations that describe data, which can lead to explainable models and generalizability outside of the training data set. In contrast, neural networks have achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Samuel Kim , Peter Y. Lu , Srijon Mukherjee , Michael Gilbert , Li Jing , Vladimir Čeperić , Marin Soljačić

Symbolic regression (SR) is a data analysis problem where we search for the mathematical expression that best fits a numerical dataset. It is a global optimization problem. The most popular approach to SR is by genetic programming (SRGP).…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Sohrab Towfighi

The definition of a concise and effective testbed for Genetic Programming (GP) is a recurrent matter in the research community. This paper takes a new step in this direction, proposing a different approach to measure the quality of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Luiz Otavio Vilas Boas Oliveira , Joao Francisco Barreto da Silva Martins , Luis Fernando Miranda , Gisele Lobo Pappa

In some situations, the interpretability of the machine learning models plays a role as important as the model accuracy. Interpretability comes from the need to trust the prediction model, verify some of its properties, or even enforce them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Guilherme Seidyo Imai Aldeia , Fabricio Olivetti de Franca

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 introduce a composition-weighted symbolic regression framework for interpretable prediction of materials properties directly from chemical composition. The method jointly learns analytical functional forms and task-dependent elemental…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-05 Yang Huang , Jingrun Chen

This article introduces a new symbolic regression algorithm based on the SPINEX (Similarity-based Predictions with Explainable Neighbors Exploration) family. This new algorithm (SPINEX_SymbolicRegression) adopts a similarity-based approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 MZ Naser , Ahmed Z Naser

In science, we are interested not only in forecasting but also in understanding how predictions are made, specifically what the interpretable underlying model looks like. Data-driven machine learning technology can significantly streamline…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Weiting Liu , Jiaxu Cui , Jiao Hu , En Wang , Bo Yang

Symbolic regression aims to find a function that best explains the relationship between independent variables and the objective value based on a given set of sample data. Genetic programming (GP) is usually considered as an appropriate…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Changtong Luo , Chen Chen , Zonglin Jiang

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

Intelligent agents must reason over both continuous dynamics and discrete representations to generate effective plans in complex environments. Previous studies have shown that symbolic abstractions can emerge from neural effect predictors…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Fatih Dogangun , Burcu Kilic , Serdar Bahar , Emre Ugur

Symbolic regression (SR), the task of discovering mathematical expressions that best describe a given dataset, remains a fundamental challenge in scientific discovery. Traditional approaches, primarily based on genetic algorithms and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Hao Liu , Xiao-Wen Yang , Atharva Sehgal , Yixin Wang , Lan-Zhe Guo , Yu-Feng Li , Yisong Yue

Medical decision-making makes frequent use of algorithms that combine risk equations with rules, providing clear and standardized treatment pathways. Symbolic regression (SR) traditionally limits its search space to continuous function…

We propose and study a method for learning interpretable representations for the task of regression. Features are represented as networks of multi-type expression trees comprised of activation functions common in neural networks in addition…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-26 William La Cava , Tilak Raj Singh , James Taggart , Srinivas Suri , Jason H. Moore

In this paper, we develop upon the emerging topic of loss function learning, which aims to learn loss functions that significantly improve the performance of the models trained under them. Specifically, we propose a new meta-learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Christian Raymond , Qi Chen , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang