arXiv:2603.23854cs.LGcs.CE2026-03被引 3

让神经网络自动发现可解释的物理方程,兼具精度与透明性。

Symbolic--KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks with Discrete Symbolic Structure for Interpretable Learning

  • 用符号化结构嵌入神经网络,通过门控机制选择最优基函数
  • 在动力系统回归中准确恢复真实方程形式,误差低于5%
  • 适合需要可解释模型的科学计算与物理建模场景

符号发现控制方程是科学机器学习的长期目标,但可解释性与可扩展性之间存在根本矛盾。传统符号回归方法虽能生成显式表达式,却依赖组合搜索;神经网络虽可高效处理高维数据,但结果不透明。本文提出符号化柯尔莫哥洛夫-阿诺德网络(Symbolic-KAN),将离散符号结构直接嵌入可训练深度网络中。该模型以学习到的一元基函数作用于学习到的标量投影,通过解析基函数库、分层门控和符号正则化,逐步将连续混合转化为独热选择。经门控训练与离散化后,每个活跃单元仅选一个基函数和投影方向,无需事后拟合即可生成紧凑闭式表达式。符号化KAN还具备可扩展的基函数发现能力,可识别关键解析成分,用于稀疏方程学习的候选库构建。实验表明,符号化KAN在数据驱动回归和反向动力系统中可靠恢复正确基项与结构。框架进一步扩展至偏微分方程的前向与反向物理信息学习,从控制约束直接生成精确解,并构建反映真实方程解析结构的紧凑符号表示。这些成果推动了可扩展、可解释且机制扎根的控制律学习。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Symbolic discovery of governing equations is a long-standing goal in scientific machine learning, yet a fundamental trade-off persists between interpretability and scalable learning. Classical symbolic regression methods yield explicit analytic expressions but rely on combinatorial search, whereas neural networks scale efficiently with data and dimensionality but produce opaque representations. In this work, we introduce Symbolic Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (Symbolic-KANs), a neural architecture that bridges this gap by embedding discrete symbolic structure directly within a trainable deep network. Symbolic-KANs represent multivariate functions as compositions of learned univariate primitives applied to learned scalar projections, guided by a library of analytic primitives, hierarchical gating, and symbolic regularization that progressively sharpens continuous mixtures into one-hot selections. After gated training and discretization, each active unit selects a single primitive and projection direction, yielding compact closed-form expressions without post-hoc symbolic fitting. Symbolic-KANs further act as scalable primitive discovery mechanisms, identifying the most relevant analytic components that can subsequently inform candidate libraries for sparse equation-learning methods. We demonstrate that Symbolic-KAN reliably recovers correct primitive terms and governing structures in data-driven regression and inverse dynamical systems. Moreover, the framework extends to forward and inverse physics-informed learning of partial differential equations, producing accurate solutions directly from governing constraints while constructing compact symbolic representations whose selected primitives reflect the true analytical structure of the underlying equations. These results position Symbolic-KAN as a step toward scalable, interpretable, and mechanistically grounded learning of governing laws.

符号回归可解释模型物理信息网络神经网络

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