FWIW the license they chose (CC-BY-NC) isn't actually open source. But
at least the code is there if you want to run it.

Aaron Meurer

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 3:50 AM S.Y. Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> They have opened the source code and the dataset
> https://github.com/facebookresearch/SymbolicMathematics
>
> On Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 2:25:40 AM UTC+9, Aaron Meurer wrote:
>>
>> For those who didn't see, the final paper was posted with many updates
>> https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01412. The newest version addresses some of
>> the things that were discussed here, and makes more use of SymPy,
>> including demonstrating some integrals that SymPy cannot solve, as
>> well as making it clearer how SymPy was used to check the results of
>> integration.
>>
>> Aaron Meurer
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 8:16 PM oldk1331 <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > (This mail is copied from my response at maxima mailing list.)
>> >
>> > My opinion on this paper:
>> >
>> > First, their dataset (section 4.1) can be greatly improved using
>> > existing integration theory, Risch algorithm says that every elementary
>> > function integration can be reduced to 3 cases: transcendental (only
>> > contains rational functions and exp/log/tan, other trigonometric
>> > functions can transform to 'tan'), algebraic (only contains rational
>> > functions and nth-root ^), and mixed-case.
>> >
>> > So their method to prepare the dataset concentrates greatly on the
>> > transcendental cases, extremely lacks algebraic cases. And they uses
>> > only numbers from -5 to 5. I think it scales badly for wider ranges of
>> > numbers.
>> >
>> > For transcendental cases, I think FriCAS has fully implemented this
>> > branch of Risch algorithm, so it should always give correct result.  For
>> > algebraic cases, I highly doubt that this ML program can solve
>> > integrate(x/sqrt(x^4 + 10*x^2 - 96*x - 71), x) =
>> > log((x^6+15*x^4+(-80)*x^3+27*x^2+(-528)*x+781)*(x^4+10*x^2+(-96)*x+(-71))^(1/2)+(x^8+20*x^6+(-128)*x^5+54*x^4+(-1408)*x^3+3124*x^2+10001))/8
>> >
>> > In fact, I doubt that this program can solve some rational function
>> > integration that requires Lazard-Rioboo-Trager algorithm to get
>> > simplified result.
>> >
>> > So I think this ML program has many flaws, but we can't inspect it.
>> >
>> > > I'm also curious (and sceptical) on just how well a neural network can
>> > > "learn" symbolic mathematics and specifically an integration
>> > > algorithm. Another interesting thing to do would be to try to train a
>> > > network to integrate rational functions, to see if it can effectively
>> > > recreate the algorithm (for those who don't know, there is a complete
>> > > algorithm which can integrate any rational function). My guess is that
>> > > this sort of thing is still beyond the capabilities of a neural
>> > > network.
>> >
>> > I totally agree.
>> >
>> > - Qian
>> >
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