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We introduce ECSEL, an explainable classification method that learns formal expressions in the form of signomial equations, motivated by the observation that many symbolic regression benchmarks admit compact signomial structure. ECSEL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Adia Lumadjeng , Ilker Birbil , Erman Acar

Regression analysis is used for prediction and to understand the effect of independent variables on dependent variables. Symbolic regression (SR) automates the search for non-linear regression models, delivering a set of hypotheses that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Fabricio Olivetti de Franca , Gabriel Kronberger

Symbolic regression is an important but challenging research topic in data mining. It can detect the underlying mathematical models. Genetic programming (GP) is one of the most popular methods for symbolic regression. However, its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Chen Chen , Changtong Luo , Zonglin Jiang

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

In practice functional data are sampled on a discrete set of observation points and often susceptible to noise. We consider in this paper the setting where such data are used as explanatory variables in a regression problem. If the primary…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-12-14 Siegfried Hörmann , Fatima Jammoul

We present an improved method for symbolic regression that seeks to fit data to formulas that are Pareto-optimal, in the sense of having the best accuracy for a given complexity. It improves on the previous state-of-the-art by typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Silviu-Marian Udrescu , Andrew Tan , Jiahai Feng , Orisvaldo Neto , Tailin Wu , Max Tegmark

Neural sequence models trained with maximum likelihood estimation have led to breakthroughs in many tasks, where success is defined by the gap between training and test performance. However, their ability to achieve stronger forms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Sean Welleck , Peter West , Jize Cao , Yejin Choi

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

Decoding-based regression, which reformulates regression as a sequence generation task, has emerged as a promising paradigm of applying large language models for numerical prediction. However, its progress is hindered by the misalignment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ming Chen , Sheng Tang , Rong-Xi Tan , Ziniu Li , Jiacheng Chen , Ke Xue , Chao Qian

We propose a novel method for solving regression tasks using few-shot or weak supervision. At the core of our method is the fundamental observation that GANs are incredibly successful at encoding semantic information within their latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Yotam Nitzan , Rinon Gal , Ofir Brenner , Daniel Cohen-Or

Implicit neural representations are a promising new avenue of representing general signals by learning a continuous function that, parameterized as a neural network, maps the domain of a signal to its codomain; the mapping from spatial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Jaeho Lee , Jihoon Tack , Namhoon Lee , Jinwoo Shin

For multi-valued functions---such as when the conditional distribution on targets given the inputs is multi-modal---standard regression approaches are not always desirable because they provide the conditional mean. Modal regression…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-30 Yangchen Pan , Ehsan Imani , Martha White , Amir-massoud Farahmand

Constructing good representations is critical for learning complex tasks in a sample efficient manner. In the context of meta-learning, representations can be constructed from common patterns of previously seen tasks so that a future task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Halil Ibrahim Gulluk , Yue Sun , Samet Oymak , Maryam Fazel

Scaled sparse linear regression jointly estimates the regression coefficients and noise level in a linear model. It chooses an equilibrium with a sparse regression method by iteratively estimating the noise level via the mean residual…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-06-22 Tingni Sun , Cun-Hui Zhang

Natural and formal languages provide an effective mechanism for humans to specify instructions and reward functions. We investigate how to generate policies via RL when reward functions are specified in a symbolic language captured by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Andrew C. Li , Zizhao Chen , Pashootan Vaezipoor , Toryn Q. Klassen , Rodrigo Toro Icarte , Sheila A. McIlraith

We present a new method for enhancing symbolic regression for differential equations via dimensional analysis, specifically Ipsen's and Buckingham pi methods. Since symbolic regression often suffers from high computational costs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Lena Podina , Diba Darooneh , Joshveer Grewal , Mohammad Kohandel

Neural-symbolic methods have demonstrated efficiency in enhancing the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). However, existing methods mainly rely on syntactically mapping natural languages to complete formal languages like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yiming Wang , Zhuosheng Zhang , Pei Zhang , Baosong Yang , Rui Wang

We study the addition of shape constraints (SC) and their consideration during the parameter identification step of symbolic regression (SR). SC serve as a means to introduce prior knowledge about the shape of the otherwise unknown model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Viktor Martinek , Julia Reuter , Ophelia Frotscher , Sanaz Mostaghim , Markus Richter , Roland Herzog

Interpretability and uncertainty quantification in machine learning can provide justification for decisions, promote scientific discovery and lead to a better understanding of model behavior. Symbolic regression provides inherently…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-23 G. F. Bomarito , P. E. Leser , N. C. M Strauss , K. M. Garbrecht , J. D. Hochhalter

Evolutionary symbolic regression (SR) fits a symbolic equation to data, which gives a concise interpretable model. We explore using SR as a method to propose which data to gather in an active learning setting with physical constraints. SR…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Jorge Medina , Andrew D. White