arXiv:2603.03346physics.geo-phcs.AI2026-03

用物理约束的符号回归,从实验数据自动发现多峰水保持曲线的闭式方程。

Physics-constrained symbolic regression for discovering closed-form equations of multimodal water retention curves from experimental data

  • 用遗传编程演化带物理约束的数学表达式树
  • 能准确拟合不同孔隙结构材料的多峰水保持特性
  • 适合需要可解释模型的土壤与岩土工程研究

具有多峰孔隙分布的多孔材料在非饱和状态下的建模面临挑战,传统水力模型难以捕捉其复杂的多尺度特征。常见方法是叠加多个单峰保留函数,但需对每种孔径范围分别标定参数,限制了可解释性和泛化能力,尤其在数据稀疏场景下。本文提出一种基于物理约束的机器学习元建模框架,可直接从实验数据中自动发现多峰水保持曲线的闭式数学表达式。数学表达式以二叉树形式表示,通过遗传编程演化,同时将物理约束嵌入损失函数,引导符号回归器找到物理解释性强且数学稳定的解。结果表明,该框架能有效表征不同孔隙结构材料的水保持特性。为支持第三方验证、应用与扩展,完整实现已开源。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Modeling the unsaturated behavior of porous materials with multimodal pore size distributions presents significant challenges, as standard hydraulic models often fail to capture their complex, multi-scale characteristics. A common workaround involves superposing unimodal retention functions, each tailored to a specific pore size range; however, this approach requires separate parameter identification for each mode, which limits interpretability and generalizability, especially in data-sparse scenarios. In this work, we introduce a fundamentally different approach: a physics-constrained machine learning framework designed for meta-modeling, enabling the automatic discovery of closed-form mathematical expressions for multimodal water retention curves directly from experimental data. Mathematical expressions are represented as binary trees and evolved via genetic programming, while physical constraints are embedded into the loss function to guide the symbolic regressor toward solutions that are physically consistent and mathematically robust. Our results demonstrate that the proposed framework can discover closed-form equations that effectively represent the water retention characteristics of porous materials with varying pore structures. To support third-party validation, application, and extension, we make the full implementation publicly available in an open-source repository.

符号回归物理约束水保持曲线多孔材料

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