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arxivcs.LG2026-07-09

DeepPySR -- A Symbolic Regression Framework with Dynamic Pruning, Pareto Selection, and Hierarchical Composition for Real-World Scientific Discovery

Fuling Chen, Kevin Vinsen, Phillip Melton, Rae-Chi Huang

Symbolic regression (SR) discovers analytical equations from data, yielding glass-box models with directly interpretable formulas, unlike black-box methods that rely on unstable post-hoc tools such as SHAP or LIME. This transparency is crucial in clinical medicine and social science, but SR faces three challenges: high-dimensional inputs, principled selection of Pareto-front formulae, and data irregularities such as multicollinearity and class imbalance. We introduce DeepPySR, which addresses these issues with a dynamic variable-pruning schedule to remove irrelevant features during search, an exponential Pareto selection criterion that eliminates trade-offs between accuracy and complexity, and a multi-layer architecture for hierarchical symbolic composition. On four Feynman physics benchmarks and seven biomedical and social-science datasets, DeepPySR outperforms PySR and baselines on body fat (R$^2$: 0.794 vs.\ 0.702), heart disease (F1: 0.898 vs.\ 0.787), student performance (R$^2$: 0.964 vs.\ 0.948), and Raine BMI (R$^2$: 0.525 vs.\ 0.370), producing interpretable formulas aligned with domain risk factors.

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