arXiv AI

LLMs as Post-hoc Auditors of Physiological Plausibility in Symbolic Regression: A Clinician-Evaluated Case Study

The paper investigates using Large Language Models (LLMs) as post-hoc auditors for symbolic regression models produced by genetic programming. By having three LLMs analyze and rank four evolved expressions across multiple runs, the study compares the LLM-generated rankings and interpretations with assessments from three clinicians. Results show that LLMs provide more favorable comparative rankings than isolated term-level interpretations, yet they also generate physiologically and mathematically questionable explanations, suggesting they are best used under expert oversight rather than for autonomous validation.

arXiv AI
Jun 30

Evolutional Math: Cross-Validated Island-Model Genetic Programming for Interpretable Symbolic Regression on Small, Wide Datasets

arXiv:2606. 28381v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Symbolic regression via genetic programming routinely fails on small, wide datasets - a regime common in clinical-trial monitoring, biostatistics, and engineering pilot studies - by converging on bloated, overfit expressions that exploit correlation rather than prediction.

By Artem Andrianov (Cyntegrity Germany GmbH, Hofheim am Taunus, Germany)
arXiv AI
Sep 7

A Semantic Model of Genetic Evidence: A Step Toward Bridging the Basic-Science-Clinic Gap

The article presents a new semantic model for representing scientific evidence, specifically tailored to genetics, that extends existing standards by adding fine‑grained, domain‑specific structure. It aligns with FHIR Evidence and SEPIO, incorporates a compact vocabulary validated by SHACL, and was tested in a human‑AI annotation pilot on six genetics papers, producing 28 evidence items and 95 source‑anchored assertions. The authors argue that this model advances trustworthy, AI‑ready infrastructure for variant interpretation by providing a reference data model and validation schema for genetic evidence.

By Michael Bouzinier, Dmitry Etin
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
Jul 10

DeepPySR -- A Symbolic Regression Framework with Dynamic Pruning, Pareto Selection, and Hierarchical Composition for Real-World Scientific Discovery

arXiv:2607. 08150v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Symbolic regression (SR) discovers analytical equations from data, yielding glass-box models with directly interpretable formulas, unlike black-box methods that rely on unstable post-hoc tools such as SHAP or LIME.

By Fuling Chen, Kevin Vinsen, Phillip Melton, Rae-Chi Huang
arXiv AI
2d ago

Scaling Clinical Judgment to Evaluate Medical AI

arXiv:2609.12822v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Blinded physician evaluation has been considered by many to be the gold standard for assessing clinical reasoning in large language models (LLMs)....

By Thomas A. Buckley, Zahir Kanjee, Peter G. Brodeur, Byron Crowe, Anthony M. Pettinato, Aashna P. Shah, Adrian D. Haimovich, Liam G. McCoy, Daniel Restrepo, Jason A. Freed, Ethan Goh, Jonathan H. Chen, Laura Zwaan, Katherine E. Goodman, Daniel J. Morgan, Raja-Elie E. Abdulnour, Adam Rodman, Arjun K. Manrai
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
Sep 1

Science sandboxes measure the scientific capability of AI agents

arXiv:2608.30165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific progress depends not only on finding solutions, but on learning the rules that explain why they work and using that understanding to desig...

By Arya S. Rao, Rodrigo I. Castro, Sager J. Gosai, Kenneth B. Hsu, Yasha Ektefaie, Shantanu Singh, Sangeeta N. Bhatia, Steven K. Reilly, Ryan Tewhey, Eric S. Lander, Pardis C. Sabeti