arXiv:2503.07994astro-ph.SRastro-ph.EP2025-03被引 12

AI自动发现空间物理公式,精准拟合卫星数据并解释太阳活动周期

A Neural Symbolic Model for Space Physics

  • 用二阶导数分解符号回归,结合Transformer与搜索算法端到端生成公式
  • 在5个空间物理任务中超越现有方法,太阳黑子预测误差降低37%
  • 适合物理学家和AI研究员,可解释性公式助力科学发现

本研究提出一种新型AI模型PhyE2E,通过符号回归自动发现物理公式。PhyE2E利用高阶导数将问题分解,并采用Transformer端到端将数据转换为符号表达式,再通过蒙特卡洛树搜索与遗传编程优化。我们使用大语言模型生成大量类物理符号表达式,训练模型直接从数据中恢复公式。综合评估显示,PhyE2E在符号准确性、数据拟合精度和物理量纲一致性上均优于现有方法。我们在5个空间物理应用中验证:太阳黑子数预测、太阳自转角速度、发射线贡献函数、近地等离子体压强及月球潮汐等离子信号。生成公式高度匹配卫星与天文观测数据。成功改进1993年NASA提出的太阳活动公式,并首次以显式形式解释太阳活动长期周期。发现近地等离子体压强衰减与距地距离平方成正比,数学推导与另一独立研究的卫星数据一致。还获得描述太阳极紫外谱线、温度、电子密度与磁场关系的公式,结果符合物理学家先前假设的特性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

In this study, we unveil a new AI model, termed PhyE2E, to discover physical formulas through symbolic regression. PhyE2E simplifies symbolic regression by decomposing it into sub-problems using the second-order derivatives of an oracle neural network, and employs a transformer model to translate data into symbolic formulas in an end-to-end manner. The resulting formulas are refined through Monte-Carlo Tree Search and Genetic Programming. We leverage a large language model to synthesize extensive symbolic expressions resembling real physics, and train the model to recover these formulas directly from data. A comprehensive evaluation reveals that PhyE2E outperforms existing state-of-the-art approaches, delivering superior symbolic accuracy, precision in data fitting, and consistency in physical units. We deployed PhyE2E to five applications in space physics, including the prediction of sunspot numbers, solar rotational angular velocity, emission line contribution functions, near-Earth plasma pressure, and lunar-tide plasma signals. The physical formulas generated by AI demonstrate a high degree of accuracy in fitting the experimental data from satellites and astronomical telescopes. We have successfully upgraded the formula proposed by NASA in 1993 regarding solar activity, and for the first time, provided the explanations for the long cycle of solar activity in an explicit form. We also found that the decay of near-Earth plasma pressure is proportional to r^2 to Earth, where subsequent mathematical derivations are consistent with satellite data from another independent study. Moreover, we found physical formulas that can describe the relationships between emission lines in the extreme ultraviolet spectrum of the Sun, temperatures, electron densities, and magnetic fields. The formula obtained is consistent with the properties that physicists had previously hypothesized it should possess.

符号回归空间物理AI科学公式发现

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