arXiv AI

L2G-SR: Learning to Guide LLM-based Symbolic Regression

L2G-SR is a framework that enhances large language model (LLM)-based symbolic regression by incorporating a learned structural verifier. The verifier uses tree edit distance (TED) to assess structural similarity between candidate equations and the target, complementing numerical error during search. Experiments on LLM-SRBench show that L2G-SR achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance in numerical fit, equation‑level accuracy, and TED across various LLM backbones and domains.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 4

Deliberate Evolution: Agentic Reasoning for Sample-Efficient Symbolic Regression with LLMs

arXiv:2606. 04360v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Symbolic regression (SR) discovers compact mathematical expressions from data, yet recent LLM-based evolutionary methods remain sample-inefficient because they rely mainly on scalar feedback such as MSE.

By Xinyu Pang, Zhanke Zhou, Xuan Li, Fangrui Lv, Shanshan Wei, Sen Cui, Bo Han, Changshui Zhang
arXiv AI
Oct 9

RISR: Residual-Informed Scientific Equation Discovery with Large Language Models

The paper introduces RISR, a residual‑informed approach for symbolic regression that leverages error patterns to guide formula discovery. A residual encoder transforms aligned inputs, targets, predictions, and residuals into tokens that condition a language model to propose candidate equations, while a dual‑view relational encoder predicts the utility of corrections. Evaluated on the LLM‑SRBench, RISR achieves higher in‑distribution and out‑of‑distribution accuracy than baseline methods, demonstrating that incorporating residual information can improve numerical equation recovery.

By Haobo Li, Wenshuo Zhang, Wenxiao Zhao, Eunseo Jung, Rui Sheng, Yushi Sun, Peiqin Zhuang, Hao Chen, Fenghua Ling
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 31

Probabilistic Symbolic Regression for Equation Discovery via Operator-induced and Regularized Symbolic Forests

The paper presents a probabilistic symbolic regression framework that models mathematical expressions as ensembles of symbolic trees, using a regularizing prior to control complexity and an Occam’s window-based posterior to capture uncertainty across plausible models. It provides theoretical guarantees on posterior concentration, including near‑parametric rates when an exact finite formula exists and oracle results under misspecification. Empirical results show the method outperforms state‑of‑the‑art competitors in predictive accuracy, symbolic complexity, and structural recovery on benchmark scientific equations and a materials discovery task.

By Somjit Roy, Pritam Dey, Bani K. Mallick, Debdeep Pati
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

InsightSR: Refining Symbolic Regression Search Spaces via Parallel Semantic and Structural LLM Guidance

InsightSR is a new framework that integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) with the PySR genetic programming engine to refine symbolic regression search spaces. It employs two LLM-guided pathways: a Semantic Seed Pathway that generates dimensionally consistent functional skeletons, and a Structural Feature Pathway that suggests nonlinear feature transformations. Over successive iterations, these pathways expand the input space and shift the search toward shallow, semantically informed trees, with a feedback loop that evaluates and refines candidate features. The method achieves a 95% exact recovery rate on the Feynman benchmark and 80.18% accuracy on the LLM-SRBench LSR-Transform task, outperforming existing genetic programming and neural-symbolic approaches while preserving strong out-of-distribution generalization.

By Yating Ling, Wenjing Cun, Zhitang Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
5d ago

DIGEST: Discovery-Guided LLM Tuning for Symbolic Regression

DIGEST is a new method for symbolic regression that combines a lightweight LLM with Genetic Programming. It uses a pretrained decoder block as a symbolic policy to seed GP populations, providing flexible generation of candidate expressions. The approach also feeds high‑quality GP discoveries back into the LLM to refine future generations, leading to improved recovery rates and faster search times on benchmark datasets.

By Kaifeng Jin, Ruizhong Qiu, Zihao Li, Xiao Lin, Dongqi Fu, Yinglong Xia, Hong Li, Hanghang Tong
arXiv AI
Jun 9

EditSR: Enhancing Neural Symbolic Regression via Edit-based Rectification

arXiv:2606. 07915v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural symbolic regression models improve inference efficiency by shifting structural search to pretraining, but their one-pass autoregressive decoding is prone to error accumulation, which may lead to generating structurally incorrect expressions, especially in complex expression generation scenarios.

By Da Li, Xinxin Li, Xingyu Cui, Jin Xu, Juan Zhang, Junping Yin
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.