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## Summary  
Symbolic regression seeks to uncover closed‑form equations from data, a task that has been tackled by LLM‑guided methods but often limited by a single, monolithic proposal loop that compresses heterogeneous search failures into one scalar score. The authors introduce A‑SR, a self‑evolving agentic framework that replaces the expression‑edit control unit with role‑conditioned evidence views, enabling finer coordination of discovery steps. By routing formula candidates through multiple protocols and using an online evaluator‑reward policy, A‑SR adapts its search process without retraining the underlying LLM. This dual‑scale self‑evolution—within a run and across runs—produces open‑source LLMs that serve as proposal priors.

## Key Contributions  
- [Finding 1] The framework shifts control from editing expressions to role‑conditioned evidence views, allowing distinct agents to interpret search outcomes.  
- [Finding 2] A hierarchical coordination system routes elite motifs, failure traces, and validity diagnostics among evaluation‑reward policies and process memory.  
- [Finding 3] Self‑evolution is achieved by distilling recorded trajectories into open‑source LLMs that act as role‑conditioned proposal priors.

## Methodology  
A‑SR coordinates formula discovery through a set of coordination protocols: an evaluator generates reliability and productivity scores, which update role‑level utilities; these utilities direct elite motifs to specialized agents while failure traces are routed for diagnostics. Within a single run the system adapts its search strategy without modifying LLM parameters; across runs it aggregates trajectories into new LLMs that serve as proposal priors, preserving the learned roles.

## Results  
On four scientific domains evaluated in LLM‑SRBench, A‑SR raises average Acc@0.01 from 25.79 % (Llama3.1‑8B baseline) to 48.30 %, while A‑SR‑LoRA lifts Qwen3‑4B performance from 24.58 % to 38.29 %. Across four real‑world discovery tasks, A‑SR achieves the best in‑distribution or out‑of‑distribution normalized mean squared error on seven of eight reported metrics.

## Significance  
The results demonstrate that hierarchical coordination and self‑evolution can dramatically improve symbolic regression accuracy, offering a scalable path toward autonomous scientific reasoning. By decoupling search control from model parameters and enabling continual learning via distillation, A‑SR paves the way for agents that evolve their own problem‑solving strategies.

## Related Concepts  
Symbolic regression, LLM‑guided methods, hierarchical coordination, role‑conditioned evidence views, evaluator‑reward policy, process memory, self‑evolution, distillation into LLMs, closed‑form equation discovery, agentic frameworks.