Neuro-Symbolic ODE Discovery with Latent Grammar Flow

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Main Authors: Yu, Karin, Chatzi, Eleni, Kissas, Georgios
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Published: 2026
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author Yu, Karin
Chatzi, Eleni
Kissas, Georgios
author_facet Yu, Karin
Chatzi, Eleni
Kissas, Georgios
contents Understanding natural and engineered systems often relies on symbolic formulations, such as differential equations, which provide interpretability and transferability beyond black-box models. We introduce Latent Grammar Flow (LGF), a neuro-symbolic generative framework for discovering ordinary differential equations from data. LGF embeds equations as grammar-based representations into a discrete latent space and forces semantically similar equations to be positioned closer together with a behavioural loss. Then, a discrete flow model guides the sampling process to recursively generate candidate equations that best fit the observed data. Domain knowledge and constraints, such as stability, can be either embedded into the rules or used as conditional predictors.
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spellingShingle Neuro-Symbolic ODE Discovery with Latent Grammar Flow
Yu, Karin
Chatzi, Eleni
Kissas, Georgios
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Symbolic Computation
Understanding natural and engineered systems often relies on symbolic formulations, such as differential equations, which provide interpretability and transferability beyond black-box models. We introduce Latent Grammar Flow (LGF), a neuro-symbolic generative framework for discovering ordinary differential equations from data. LGF embeds equations as grammar-based representations into a discrete latent space and forces semantically similar equations to be positioned closer together with a behavioural loss. Then, a discrete flow model guides the sampling process to recursively generate candidate equations that best fit the observed data. Domain knowledge and constraints, such as stability, can be either embedded into the rules or used as conditional predictors.
title Neuro-Symbolic ODE Discovery with Latent Grammar Flow
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Symbolic Computation
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16232