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:2608. 09617v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Symbolic regression is the problem of finding an algebraic expression describing a stochastic dependence of a target variable on a set of inputs.
By Oussama Boussif, Mohammed Mahfoud, Younesse Kaddar, Moksh Jain, Sida Li, Damiano Fornasiere, Xiaoyin Chen, Yoshua Bengio, Esmeralda S. Whitammer
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:2511. 04124v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Symbolic regression (SR) models complex systems by discovering mathematical expressions that capture underlying relationships in observed data.
By Giorgio Morales, John W. Sheppard
arXiv:2608. 02628v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Symbolic regression (SR) is the task of discovering underlying patterns from data and representing them using mathematical expressions.
By Yusong Deng, Yanjie Li, Weijun Li
Neural Symbolic Regression (NSR) uses neural networks as functional preconditioners to learn smooth, noise‑robust approximations of target functions in an interaction‑aware nonlinear feature space. A subsequent LASSO step extracts sparse, interpretable closed‑form expressions, while distributed hyperparameter optimization with Ray Tune and ASHA scheduling improves predictive accuracy and symbolic fidelity. Experiments on the Nguyen benchmark demonstrate that NSR outperforms SINDy and untuned neural baselines in RMSE, noise robustness, and out‑of‑distribution generalization, with ablation studies highlighting the importance of feature interactions, neural depth, and tuning strategies.
By Ravi Kumar U, Sumitra S
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
SMILE (Sine, Multiplication, Identity, Logarithm, Exponential) is a hybrid framework that merges continuous gradient-based optimization with discrete symbolic recovery for symbolic regression. It operates in three stages: structural analysis to uncover the compositional hierarchy of the target expression, continuous optimization to learn parameters of a network using interpretable activations, and symbolic recovery via structured pruning, coefficient optimization, and rounding to produce a compact expression with exact symbolic constants. Evaluated on SRBench, SMILE achieves the highest symbolic solution rate under high noise, remains on the Pareto front of accuracy versus complexity, and recovers simpler expressions much faster than competing methods.
By Mansooreh Montazerin, Antonio Ortega, Ajitesh Srivastava
arXiv:2609.24746v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Existing approaches to solving differential equations, such as symbolic regression, physics informed neural networks, and neural operators, typically f...
By Xiyue Fan, Adam Prugel-Bennett, Stuart E. Middleton
arXiv:2605. 23272v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Symbolic Regression (SR) plays a central role in scientific knowledge discovery by distilling mathematical equations from observational data.
By Boxiao Wang, Kai Li, Zhiwei Chen, Yang Huang, Runxiang Wang, Ziwen Zhang, Yifan Zhang, Jian Cheng
arXiv:2604. 17402v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Symbolic regression (SR) with genetic programming (GP) aims to discover interpretable mathematical expressions directly from data.
By Masahiro Nomura, Ryoki Hamano, Isao Ono
arXiv:2608. 04060v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Joint-embedding predictive architectures learn abstract states by predicting target embeddings from context embeddings, but their transition models are typically opaque neural maps.
By Yongchao Huang