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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2026

Physics-consistent equation discovery for drug solubility in supercritical CO₂ through symbolic regression and domain generalization.

Adel Alhowyan, Ahmad J Obaidullah, Wael A Mahdi

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Adel AlhowyanDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Ahmad J ObaidullahDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Wael A MahdiDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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Predicting drug solubility in supercritical CO₂ is challenging due to limited data, and strong inter-compound variability conditions that hinder generalization to unseen drugs. Although conventional machine learning models often achieve high accuracy, they rely on spurious correlations and lack interpretability, limiting practical use. This study proposes a unified framework combining symbolic regression with domain generalization techniques, including Invariant Risk Minimization (IRM) and Domain-Adversarial Neural Networks (DANN), to enable equation discovery. The framework enables the discovery of invariant, physically consistent equations that generalize beyond the training distribution. Symbolic regression extracts closed-form relationships, while IRM and DANN enforce invariance across domains within a multi-objective optimization setting. The optimized models achieved validation R

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drug solubility predictionequation discoveryleave-one-domain-out validationphysical consistencysupercritical CO2

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PMID42889992
PMCPMC13671916

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