The rapid advancements in Machine Learning (ML) and Black-Box Optimization (BBO) have led to an increased reliance on benchmarking data for evaluating and comparing algorithms across diverse domain tasks. However, the effective exploitation of this data is hindered by challenges such as syntactic variability, semantic ambiguity, and lack of standardization. …
In this thesis, we introduce novel methods for equation discovery (ED), based on the use of probabilistic grammars. ED and symbolic regression address the task of finding a symbolic mathematical model that best describes observed data. Models can be as simple as an algebraic equation or as complex as a …
Most machine learning, data mining and statistical methods rely on the assumption that the analyzed data are independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.). More specifically, the individual examples included in the training data are assumed to be drawn independently from each other from the same probability distribution. However, cases where this …
In this thesis, we address the task of learning models for predicting structured outputs, which take as input a tuple of attribute values and produce as output a structured object. In contrast to classification and regression, where the output is a single scalar value, in our case the output is …