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Typical convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have several millions of parameters and require a large amount of annotated data to train them. In medical applications where training data is hard to come by, these sophisticated machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Rahul Venkataramani , Sheshadri Thiruvenkadam , Prasad Sudhakar , Hariharan Ravishankar , Vivek Vaidya

We describe the class of convexified convolutional neural networks (CCNNs), which capture the parameter sharing of convolutional neural networks in a convex manner. By representing the nonlinear convolutional filters as vectors in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Yuchen Zhang , Percy Liang , Martin J. Wainwright

Group convolutional neural networks (G-CNNs) have been shown to increase parameter efficiency and model accuracy by incorporating geometric inductive biases. In this work, we investigate the properties of representations learned by regular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 David M. Knigge , David W. Romero , Erik J. Bekkers

Following the traditional paradigm of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), modern CNNs manage to keep pace with more recent, for example transformer-based, models by not only increasing model depth and width but also the kernel size. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Paul Gavrikov , Janis Keuper

Incorporating equivariance to symmetry groups as a constraint during neural network training can improve performance and generalization for tasks exhibiting those symmetries, but such symmetries are often not perfectly nor explicitly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Kaitlin Maile , Dennis G. Wilson , Patrick Forré

In the current era of neural networks and big data, higher dimensional data is processed for automation of different application areas. Graphs represent a complex data organization in which dependencies between more than one object or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Ihsan Ullah , Mario Manzo , Mitul Shah , Michael Madden

Convolutions encode equivariance symmetries into neural networks leading to better generalisation performance. However, symmetries provide fixed hard constraints on the functions a network can represent, need to be specified in advance, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Tycho F. A. van der Ouderaa , Alexander Immer , Mark van der Wilk

Partial differential equation (PDE) models and their associated variational energy formulations are often rotationally invariant by design. This ensures that a rotation of the input results in a corresponding rotation of the output, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Tobias Alt , Karl Schrader , Joachim Weickert , Pascal Peter , Matthias Augustin

Many successful deep learning architectures are equivariant to certain transformations in order to conserve parameters and improve generalization: most famously, convolution layers are equivariant to shifts of the input. This approach only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Allan Zhou , Tom Knowles , Chelsea Finn

We introduce tensor field neural networks, which are locally equivariant to 3D rotations, translations, and permutations of points at every layer. 3D rotation equivariance removes the need for data augmentation to identify features in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Nathaniel Thomas , Tess Smidt , Steven Kearnes , Lusann Yang , Li Li , Kai Kohlhoff , Patrick Riley

Different neural networks trained on the same dataset often learn similar input-output mappings with very different weights. Is there some correspondence between these neural network solutions? For linear networks, it has been shown that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Qihong Lu , Po-Hsuan Chen , Jonathan W. Pillow , Peter J. Ramadge , Kenneth A. Norman , Uri Hasson

The immense computational cost of simulating turbulence has motivated the use of machine learning approaches for super-resolving turbulent flows. A central challenge is ensuring that learned models respect physical symmetries, such as…

Convolutional neural networks have shown remarkable performance in recent years on various computer vision problems. However, the traditional convolutional neural network architecture lacks a critical property: shift equivariance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Quentin Gabot , Teck-Yian Lim , Jérémy Fix , Joana Frontera-Pons , Chengfang Ren , Jean-Philippe Ovarlez

We address the problem of determining correspondences between two images in agreement with a geometric model such as an affine or thin-plate spline transformation, and estimating its parameters. The contributions of this work are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Ignacio Rocco , Relja Arandjelović , Josef Sivic

Convolutional Neural Networks have revolutionized vision applications. There are image domains and representations, however, that cannot be handled by standard CNNs (e.g., spherical images, superpixels). Such data are usually processed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 David Hart , Michael Whitney , Bryan Morse

We consider Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with 2D structured features that are symmetric in the spatial dimensions. Such networks arise in modeling pairwise relationships for a sequential recommendation problem, as well as secondary…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-07 Kehelwala Dewage Gayan Maduranga , Vasily Zadorozhnyy , Qiang Ye

The translation equivariance of convolutional layers enables convolutional neural networks to generalize well on image problems. While translation equivariance provides a powerful inductive bias for images, we often additionally desire…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-25 Marc Finzi , Samuel Stanton , Pavel Izmailov , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Weight-sharing is one of the pillars behind Convolutional Neural Networks and their successes. However, in physical neural systems such as the brain, weight-sharing is implausible. This discrepancy raises the fundamental question of whether…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Jordan Ott , Erik Linstead , Nicholas LaHaye , Pierre Baldi

Image feature matching is a fundamental part of many geometric computer vision applications, and using multiple images can improve performance. In this work, we formulate multi-image matching as a graph embedding problem then use a Graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Stephen Phillips , Kostas Daniilidis

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely applied. But as the CNNs grow, the number of arithmetic operations and memory footprint also increase. Furthermore, typical non-linear activation functions do not allow associativity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Eduardo Vera Sousa , Leandro A. F. Fernandes , Cristina Nader Vasconcelos