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Deep Symbolic Regression for Physics Guided by Units Constraints: Toward the Automated Discovery of Physical Laws

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Symbolic regression (SR) is the study of algorithms that automate the search for analytic expressions that fit data. While recent advances in deep learning have generated renewed interest in such approaches, the development of SR methods has not been focused on physics, where we have important additional constraints due to the units associated with our data. Here we present Φ-SO, a physical symbolic optimization framework for recovering analytical symbolic expressions from physics data using deep reinforcement learning techniques by learning units constraints. Our system is built, from the ground up, to propose solutions where the physical units are consistent by construction. This is useful not only in eliminating physically impossible solutions but also because the grammatical rules of dimensional analysis enormously restrict the freedom of the equation generator, thus vastly improving performance. The algorithm can be used to fit noiseless data, which can be useful, for instance, when attempting to derive an analytical property of a physical model, and it can also be used to obtain analytical approximations of noisy data. We test our machinery on a standard benchmark of equations from the Feynman Lectures on Physics and other physics textbooks, achieving state-of-the-art performance in the presence of noise (exceeding 0.1%) and show that it is robust even in the presence of substantial (10%) noise. We showcase its abilities on a panel of examples from astrophysics.
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Wassim Tenachi, Rodrigo Ibata, Foivos I. Diakogiannis. Deep Symbolic Regression for Physics Guided by Units Constraints: Toward the Automated Discovery of Physical Laws. The Astrophysical Journal, 2023, 959, ⟨10.3847/1538-4357/ad014c⟩. ⟨insu-04352898⟩
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