arXiv AI

Language models guide symbolic equation discovery by controlling search

arXiv:2607. 04156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific equation discovery must combine broad domain priors with strict numerical testing.

arXiv AI
Sep 1

Test-Time Scaling for Scientific Equation Discovery

The paper investigates Test‑Time Scaling (TTS) for large language models (LLMs) in the context of automated scientific equation discovery, an open‑ended task where models iteratively search candidate equations using observed data for feedback. It frames equation discovery as a unified iterative search that encompasses Best‑of‑N, sequential refinement, tree search, and evolutionary methods, and studies how compute allocation—particularly search width—affects performance under fixed budgets. Experiments on the LLM‑SRBench dataset show that increasing search width with more compute improves results, while other factors like population‑branching split and controller choice have smaller impacts, indicating that controlling exploration versus exploitation is key to scaling LLM‑based equation discovery.

By Haowei Lin, Hubert Lim, Xiangyu Wang, Letian Huang, Di He
arXiv AI
Aug 3

Library Reachability in LSR-Synth: How Anti-Memorization Design Changes the Measurement of Symbolic Discovery

arXiv:2607. 28684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing benchmarks for scientific equation discovery are largely composed of well-known equations available in the public domain, making it difficult to determine whether a model is discovering laws from data or merely recalling answers from its training corpus.

By Zhan'ao Yao, Liang Yin, Zhihao Gao, Boxuan Zhang, Xiaoyu Wu, Linjing Li, Rongyan Wang, Tingwei Chen, Youwei Wang, Xiaolin Zhao, Jiahui Shi, Jianjun Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 21

MOSAIC-SR: Transformer-Guided Symbolic Regression for Scientific Equation Recovery

MOSAIC‑SR is a new symbolic regression method that combines a pretrained Transformer with search‑based refinement. The Transformer generates multiple initial sketches, which seed searches that jointly recover equation structure and constants using scale‑aware optimization and symbolic repair. On the SRSD‑Feynman dataset and six other benchmarks, MOSAIC‑SR achieves the highest symbolic solution rate and ranks among the top two in predictive accuracy, even when irrelevant dummy variables are present.

By Peiyi Zheng, Yanming Kang, Hans De Sterck, Giang Tran
arXiv AI
Jul 16

Automatic Ordinary Differential Equations Discovery For Biological Systems Using Large Language Model Powered Agentic System

arXiv:2607. 13608v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic scientific discovery has long been a goal of computational scholars - a machine that can discover nature's secrets on its own, moving computational systems beyond data-fitting tools toward the generation and refinement of mechanistic models of the universe.

By David Krongauz, Arad Zulti, Eran Segal, Teddy Lazebnik
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 15

Automatic Ordinary Differential Equations Discovery For Biological Systems Using Large Language Model Powered Agentic System

Automatic scientific discovery has long been a goal of computational scholars - a machine that can discover nature's secrets on its own, moving computational systems beyond data-fitting tools toward the generation and refinement of mechanistic models of the universe. Recent advances in symbolic regression (SR) and large-language-model (LLM)-based agents suggest that such systems can recover equations from data, incorporate domain priors, and automate parts of the research workflow.

arXiv AI
Aug 6

A-SR: Self-Evolving Agentic LLMs for Symbolic Regression via Hierarchical Coordination

arXiv:2608. 04872v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Symbolic regression aims to discover closed-form equations from data, but existing LLM-guided methods often rely on a unified proposal loop that compresses heterogeneous search failures into a scalar score and a single prompt.

By Wenxiao Zhao, Dong Liu, Kaiyi Xu, Feng Liu, Zhen Zhao, Fei Ben, Shu Wang, Wenhao Li, Yingnian Wu, Fenghua Ling, Haobo Li, Lei Bai
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 5

A-SR: Self-Evolving Agentic LLMs for Symbolic Regression via Hierarchical Coordination

Symbolic regression aims to discover closed-form equations from data, but existing LLM-guided methods often rely on a unified proposal loop that compresses heterogeneous search failures into a scalar score and a single prompt. We propose A-SR, a self-evolving agentic framework that shifts the control unit from expression edits to role-conditioned evidence views.