Symbolic Regression and Differentiable Fits in Beyond the Standard Model Physics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20453v1
• Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:40:15 GMT
• Title: Symbolic Regression and Differentiable Fits in Beyond the Standard Model Physics
• Authors: Shehu AbdusSalam, Steven Abel, Deaglan Bartlett, Miguel Crispim Romão,
• Abstract summary: We demonstrate the efficacy of symbolic regression to probe models of particle physics.<n>We focus on the Higgs mass, the cold dark matter relic density, and the contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon.
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• Abstract: We demonstrate the efficacy of symbolic regression (SR) to probe models of particle physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM), by considering the so-called Constrained Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (CMSSM). Like many incarnations of BSM physics this model has a number (four) of arbitrary parameters, which determine the experimental signals, and cosmological observables such as the dark matter relic density. We show that analysis of the phenomenology can be greatly accelerated by using symbolic expressions derived for the observables in terms of the input parameters. Here we focus on the Higgs mass, the cold dark matter relic density, and the contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. We find that SR can produce remarkably accurate expressions. Using them we make global fits to derive the posterior probability densities of the CMSSM input parameters which are in good agreement with those performed using conventional methods. Moreover, we demonstrate a major advantage of SR which is the ability to make fits using differentiable methods rather than sampling methods. We also compare the method with neural network (NN) regression. SR produces more globally robust results, while NNs require data that is focussed on the promising regions in order to be equally performant.

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