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most citedDeep symbolic regression: Recovering mathematical expressions from data via risk-seeking policy gradients

49 citations · 122 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.LG2025

Deep Symbolic Optimization: Reinforcement Learning for Symbolic Mathematics

Conor F. Hayes, Felipe Leno Da Silva, Jiachen Yang +15

Deep Symbolic Optimization (DSO) is a novel computational framework that enables symbolic optimization for scientific discovery, particularly in applications involving the search f…

cs.LG2024

DisCo-DSO: Coupling Discrete and Continuous Optimization for Efficient Generative Design in Hybrid Spaces

Jacob F. Pettit, Chak Shing Lee, Jiachen Yang +4

We consider the challenge of black-box optimization within hybrid discrete-continuous and variable-length spaces, a problem that arises in various applications, such as decision tr…

cs.LG2023★ 9 cited

Interpretable Symbolic Regression for Data Science: Analysis of the 2022 Competition

F. O. de Franca, M. Virgolin, M. Kommenda +21

Symbolic regression searches for analytic expressions that accurately describe studied phenomena. The main attraction of this approach is that it returns an interpretable model tha…

cs.LG2022★ 4 cited

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Mesh Refinement

Jiachen Yang, Ketan Mittal, Tarik Dzanic +5

Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is necessary for efficient finite element simulations of complex physical phenomenon, as it allocates limited computational budget based on the need…

cs.NE2021★ 5 cited

Symbolic Regression via Neural-Guided Genetic Programming Population Seeding

T. Nathan Mundhenk, Mikel Landajuela, Ruben Glatt +3

Symbolic regression is the process of identifying mathematical expressions that fit observed output from a black-box process. It is a discrete optimization problem generally believ…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Incorporating domain knowledge into neural-guided search

Brenden K. Petersen, Claudio P. Santiago, Mikel Landajuela

Many AutoML problems involve optimizing discrete objects under a black-box reward. Neural-guided search provides a flexible means of searching these combinatorial spaces using an a…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Improving exploration in policy gradient search: Application to symbolic optimization

Mikel Landajuela, Brenden K. Petersen, Soo K. Kim +5

Many machine learning strategies designed to automate mathematical tasks leverage neural networks to search large combinatorial spaces of mathematical symbols. In contrast to tradi…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Distilling Wikipedia mathematical knowledge into neural network models

Joanne T. Kim, Mikel Landajuela, Brenden K. Petersen

Machine learning applications to symbolic mathematics are becoming increasingly popular, yet there lacks a centralized source of real-world symbolic expressions to be used as train…

cs.LG2021★ 7 cited

Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Mesh Refinement

Jiachen Yang, Tarik Dzanic, Brenden Petersen +9

Large-scale finite element simulations of complex physical systems governed by partial differential equations (PDE) crucially depend on adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) to allocate c…

eess.SY2019★ 7 cited

Increasing performance of electric vehicles in ride-hailing services using deep reinforcement learning

Jacob F. Pettit, Ruben Glatt, Jonathan R. Donadee +1

New forms of on-demand transportation such as ride-hailing and connected autonomous vehicles are proliferating, yet are a challenging use case for electric vehicles (EV). This pape…

cs.LG2019★ 49 cited

Deep symbolic regression: Recovering mathematical expressions from data via risk-seeking policy gradients

Brenden K. Petersen, Mikel Landajuela, T. Nathan Mundhenk +3

Discovering the underlying mathematical expressions describing a dataset is a core challenge for artificial intelligence. This is the problem of . Des…

cs.LG2019★ 21 cited

Single Episode Policy Transfer in Reinforcement Learning

Jiachen Yang, Brenden Petersen, Hongyuan Zha +1

Transfer and adaptation to new unknown environmental dynamics is a key challenge for reinforcement learning (RL). An even greater challenge is performing near-optimally in a single…

cs.LG2018★ 14 cited

Precision medicine as a control problem: Using simulation and deep reinforcement learning to discover adaptive, personalized multi-cytokine therapy for sepsis

Brenden K. Petersen, Jiachen Yang, Will S. Grathwohl +4

Sepsis is a life-threatening condition affecting one million people per year in the US in which dysregulation of the body's own immune system causes damage to its tissues, resultin…

stat.ML2018★ 2 cited

Modeling sepsis progression using hidden Markov models

Brenden K. Petersen, Michael B. Mayhew, Kalvin O. E. Ogbuefi +3

Characterizing a patient's progression through stages of sepsis is critical for enabling risk stratification and adaptive, personalized treatment. However, commonly used sepsis dia…