Title
Symbolic Regression by Exhaustive Search - Reducing the Search Space Using Syntactical Constraints and Efficient Semantic Structure Deduplication.
Abstract
Symbolic regression is a powerful system identification technique in industrial scenarios where no prior knowledge on model structure is available. Such scenarios often require specific model properties such as interpretability, robustness, trustworthiness and plausibility, that are not easily achievable using standard approaches like genetic programming for symbolic regression. In this chapter we introduce a deterministic symbolic regression algorithm specifically designed to address these issues. The algorithm uses a context-free grammar to produce models that are parameterized by a non-linear least squares local optimization procedure. A finite enumeration of all possible models is guaranteed by structural restrictions as well as a caching mechanism for detecting semantically equivalent solutions. Enumeration order is established via heuristics designed to improve search efficiency. Empirical tests on a comprehensive benchmark suite show that our approach is competitive with genetic programming in many noiseless problems while maintaining desirable properties such as simple, reliable models and reproducibility.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/978-3-030-39958-0_5
GPTP
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
Kammerer L. et al (2020) Symbolic Regression by Exhaustive Search: (...), In: Banzhaf W. et al (eds) Genetic Programming Theory and Practice XVII, pp 79-99
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PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lukas Kammerer100.34
Gabriel Kronberger219225.40
Bogdan Burlacu300.34
Stephan M. Winkler400.34
Michael Kommenda59715.58
Michael Affenzeller633962.47