symforce.test_util.random_expressions package#

This module provides randomly sampled expression trees, which are useful primarily for testing and benchmarking purposes.

The intent is to take a given set of

  1. Leaf symbols, such as x_0, x_1, …, x_10

  2. Leaf constants, such as -2, -1, …, 2

  3. N-ary operators, such as lambda x: -x, lambda x, y: x ** y, or lambda x: sin(x)

And generate expressions trees sampled uniformly from the set of all expression trees of a given size that can be formed from these primitives. There are a couple of details here. First, size is defined as total number of ops. In practice, this is an approximate target, since SymPy and SymEngine consolidate some ops on construction and hitting an exact target while accounting for this is challenging. Second by “uniformly sampled” we can mean either

  1. Uniformly sampled over tree structures, and then uniformly sampled over operators and leaves once the structure is fixed, or

  2. Uniformly sampled over all trees.

These are different since the number of unary and binary ops available will make some structures more probable than others with definition 2. We take option 1 by default, this is controlled by the parameters p1 and p2.

The methodology and implementation here is based on “Deep Learning for Symbolic Mathematics”, Appendix C:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01412

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