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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2026

Unsupervised Hierarchical Symbolic Regression for Interpretable Property Modeling in Complex Multi-Variable Systems.

Siyu Lou, Chengchun Liu, Dongxiao Zhang, Yuntian Chen, Fanyang Mo

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Siyu LouSchool of computer science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P.R. China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8046-0052
Chengchun LiuSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5550-4145
Dongxiao ZhangNingbo Key Laboratory of Advanced Manufacturing Simulation, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, P.R. China.
Yuntian ChenNingbo Key Laboratory of Advanced Manufacturing Simulation, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, P.R. China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4566-8197
Fanyang MoSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 12572266New Generation Artificial Intelligence-National Science and Technology Major Project 2025ZD0121904
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have produced powerful predictive models for chemical analysis, but model interpretability remains a challenge. Here, we introduce Unsupervised Hierarchical Symbolic Regression (UHSR), providing an explainable solution while maintaining competitive predictive performance. With a focus on thin-layer chromatography (TLC), a crucial technique in molecular polarity analysis, UHSR automatically distills chemically-intuitive retention indices and discovers explainable equations that link molecular structures to chromatographic behavior. Experiments have shown UHSR's capability to derive concise and accurate governing equations linking polarity to molecular structures from the TLC dataset. A survey of 100 expert chemists demonstrates that our UHSR model gains more trust from chemists compared to traditional models. Additionally, we also show its adaptability to other property prediction tasks beyond molecular polarity.

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explainable AImolecular polaritymolecular structuresymbolic regressionTLC

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PMID41498690
PMCPMC13045437

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