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| author | Chu, Xieting Vishwanath, Sriram Ganesh, Vijay |
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| contents | Symbolic regression (SR) seeks closed-form mathematical expressions that fit observed data. Neural SR methods amortize the search by training an encoder to map observations directly to expressions in a single pass, but this amortized inference leaves a residual amortization gap between its one-shot prediction and the true posterior. We propose Latent Equation Embedding (LEE), a framework that closes this gap through iterative amortized inference in a functionally grounded latent space. LEE learns a shared latent space Z equipped with three components: an encoder f_theta that jointly embeds symbolic tokens and numerical observations into a single latent vector z; an expression decoder g_expr that reconstructs formulas from z; and an evaluation decoder g_eval that predicts function values from z, explicitly grounding the latent space in functional behavior. At inference, LEE performs iterative refinement by re-encoding decoded expressions jointly with observations, progressively improving the latent estimate. LEE uses the encoder itself as a learned inference optimizer: each re-encoding step implicitly computes the mismatch between the candidate and the data. Because g_eval is differentiable in z, we additionally interleave continuous gradient descent with discrete re-encoding, yielding a hybrid iterative and gradient refinement procedure. On SRBench across three noise levels, against 19 baselines spanning genetic programming, symbolic-neural hybrids, and pre-trained Transformers, LEE produces expressions 2--10x simpler than the strongest accuracy-oriented baselines, including Operon, GP-GOMEA, TPSR, RAG-SR, and GenSR, with complexity 8--11 versus 20--90. These results advance the low-complexity region of the accuracy-complexity Pareto frontier and show graceful degradation as noise increases. |
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| spellingShingle | Symbolic Regression via Latent Iterative Refinement Chu, Xieting Vishwanath, Sriram Ganesh, Vijay Machine Learning Symbolic regression (SR) seeks closed-form mathematical expressions that fit observed data. Neural SR methods amortize the search by training an encoder to map observations directly to expressions in a single pass, but this amortized inference leaves a residual amortization gap between its one-shot prediction and the true posterior. We propose Latent Equation Embedding (LEE), a framework that closes this gap through iterative amortized inference in a functionally grounded latent space. LEE learns a shared latent space Z equipped with three components: an encoder f_theta that jointly embeds symbolic tokens and numerical observations into a single latent vector z; an expression decoder g_expr that reconstructs formulas from z; and an evaluation decoder g_eval that predicts function values from z, explicitly grounding the latent space in functional behavior. At inference, LEE performs iterative refinement by re-encoding decoded expressions jointly with observations, progressively improving the latent estimate. LEE uses the encoder itself as a learned inference optimizer: each re-encoding step implicitly computes the mismatch between the candidate and the data. Because g_eval is differentiable in z, we additionally interleave continuous gradient descent with discrete re-encoding, yielding a hybrid iterative and gradient refinement procedure. On SRBench across three noise levels, against 19 baselines spanning genetic programming, symbolic-neural hybrids, and pre-trained Transformers, LEE produces expressions 2--10x simpler than the strongest accuracy-oriented baselines, including Operon, GP-GOMEA, TPSR, RAG-SR, and GenSR, with complexity 8--11 versus 20--90. These results advance the low-complexity region of the accuracy-complexity Pareto frontier and show graceful degradation as noise increases. |
| title | Symbolic Regression via Latent Iterative Refinement |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27245 |