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E(n) Equivariant Message Passing Cellular Networks

Machine Learning 2024-07-19 v3

Abstract

This paper introduces E(n) Equivariant Message Passing Cellular Networks (EMPCNs), an extension of E(n) Equivariant Graph Neural Networks to CW-complexes. Our approach addresses two aspects of geometric message passing networks: 1) enhancing their expressiveness by incorporating arbitrary cells, and 2) achieving this in a computationally efficient way with a decoupled EMPCNs technique. We demonstrate that EMPCNs achieve close to state-of-the-art performance on multiple tasks without the need for steerability, including many-body predictions and motion capture. Moreover, ablation studies confirm that decoupled EMPCNs exhibit stronger generalization capabilities than their non-topologically informed counterparts. These findings show that EMPCNs can be used as a scalable and expressive framework for higher-order message passing in geometric and topological graphs

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@article{arxiv.2406.03145,
  title  = {E(n) Equivariant Message Passing Cellular Networks},
  author = {Veljko Kovač and Erik J. Bekkers and Pietro Liò and Floor Eijkelboom},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.03145},
  year   = {2024}
}
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