A Perspective on Symbolic Machine Learning in Physical Sciences

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17993v1
• Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:02:02 GMT
• Title: A Perspective on Symbolic Machine Learning in Physical Sciences
• Authors: Nour Makke, Sanjay Chawla,
• Abstract summary: The rate at which machine learning is impacting non-scientific disciplines is incomparable to that in the physical sciences.<n> Symbolic machine learning stands as an equal and complementary partner to numerical machine learning in speeding up scientific discovery in physics.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Machine learning is rapidly making its pathway across all of the natural sciences, including physical sciences. The rate at which ML is impacting non-scientific disciplines is incomparable to that in the physical sciences. This is partly due to the uninterpretable nature of deep neural networks. Symbolic machine learning stands as an equal and complementary partner to numerical machine learning in speeding up scientific discovery in physics. This perspective discusses the main differences between the ML and scientific approaches. It stresses the need to develop and apply symbolic machine learning to physics problems equally, in parallel to numerical machine learning, because of the dual nature of physics research.

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