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arXiv2025

Constraint-Guided Symbolic Regression for Data-Efficient Kinetic Model Discovery

The industrialization of catalytic processes hinges on the availability of reliable kinetic models for design, optimization, and control. Traditional mechanistic models demand extensive domain expertise, while many data-driven approaches often lack interpretability and fail to enforce physical consistency. To overcome these limitations, we propose the Physics-Informed Automated Discovery of Kinetics (PI-ADoK) framework. By integrating physical constraints directly into a symbolic regression approach, PI-ADoK narrows the search space and substantially reduces the number of experiments required for model convergence. Additionally, the framework incorporates a robust uncertainty quantification strategy via the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, which propagates parameter uncertainty to yield credible prediction intervals. Benchmarking our method against conventional approaches across several catalytic case studies demonstrates that PI-ADoK not only enhances model fidelity but also lowers the experimental burden, highlighting its potential for efficient and reliable kinetic model discovery in chemical reaction engineering.

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arXiv2024

Simplest Mechanism Builder Algorithm (SiMBA): An Automated Microkinetic Model Discovery Tool

Microkinetic models are key for evaluating industrial processes' efficiency and chemicals' environmental impact. Manual construction of these models is difficult and time-consuming, prompting a shift to automated methods. This study introduces SiMBA (Simplest Mechanism Builder Algorithm), a novel approach for generating microkinetic models from kinetic data. SiMBA operates through four phases: mechanism generation, mechanism translation, parameter estimation, and model comparison. Our approach systematically proposes reaction mechanisms, using matrix representations and a parallelized backtracking algorithm to manage complexity. These mechanisms are then translated into microkinetic models represented by ordinary differential equations, and optimized to fit available data. Models are compared using information criteria to balance accuracy and complexity, iterating until convergence to an optimal model is reached. Case studies on an aldol condensation reaction, and the dehydration of fructose demonstrate SiMBA's effectiveness in distilling complex kinetic behaviors into simple yet accurate models. While SiMBA predicts intermediates correctly for all case studies, it does not chemically identify intermediates, requiring expert input for complex systems. Despite this, SiMBA significantly enhances mechanistic exploration, offering a robust initial mechanism that accelerates the development and modeling of chemical processes.

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arXiv2023

The Automated Discovery of Kinetic Rate Models -- Methodological Frameworks

The industrialization of catalytic processes requires reliable kinetic models for their design, optimization and control. Mechanistic models require significant domain knowledge, while data-driven and hybrid models lack interpretability. Automated knowledge discovery methods, such as ALAMO (Automated Learning of Algebraic Models for Optimization), SINDy (Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics), and genetic programming, have gained popularity but suffer from limitations such as needing model structure assumptions, exhibiting poor scalability, and displaying sensitivity to noise. To overcome these challenges, we propose two methodological frameworks, ADoK-S and ADoK-W (Automated Discovery of Kinetic rate models using a Strong/Weak formulation of symbolic regression), for the automated generation of catalytic kinetic models using a robust criterion for model selection. We leverage genetic programming for model generation and a sequential optimization routine for model refinement. The frameworks are tested against three case studies of increasing complexity, demonstrating their ability to retrieve the underlying kinetic rate model with limited noisy data from the catalytic systems, showcasing their potential for chemical reaction engineering applications.

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