智能体符号搜索:超越手工表达式、网格与神经网络的偏微分方程近似求解
Agentic Symbolic Search: Approximating Solutions of PDEs Beyond Hand-crafted Expressions, Meshes, and Neural Networks
Zongmin Yu, Jun Zhai, Liu Yang
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提出 Agentic Symbolic Search(ASYS),让编码智能体结合进化搜索与梯度拟合,从已知 PDE 和数学知识出发构造并改进显式符号近似。
cs.LG · math.NA · physics.comp-ph
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Numerical methods and neural networks have transformed our understanding of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs), yet discovering mathematical representations that explain their dynamics remains largely an expert task. We introduce Agentic Symbolic Search (ASYS), in which coding agents construct and refine explicit approximations from a known PDE and supplied mathematical knowledge. ASYS couples evolutionary search over differentiable symbolic programs with gradient-based fitting, using the governing equation to evaluate candidates and guide their revision. For a singular generalized Constantin-Lax-Majda profile, ASYS infers a missing decay term that sets how fast the field approaches its singular-time limit, and builds a basis that fits the profile to a median error of $3.90\times10^{-5}\%$. For Fujita blow-up, separating diffusion from reaction and deriving a local response lowers the supplied formula's error from 55.5% to 0.0879%. For Allen-Cahn interfaces, a 14-parameter construction yields a mode-coupling law confirmed by independent simulations. These studies show how agentic search develops mathematical starting points into accurate, analyzable approximations.