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Inspired by two basic mechanisms in animal visual systems, we introduce a feature transform technique that imposes invariance properties in the training of deep neural networks. The resulting algorithm requires less parameter tuning, trains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Chengxi Ye , Xiong Zhou , Tristan McKinney , Yanfeng Liu , Qinggang Zhou , Fedor Zhdanov

Symmetry-based neural networks often constrain the architecture in order to achieve invariance or equivariance to a group of transformations. In this paper, we propose an alternative that avoids this architectural constraint by learning to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Sékou-Oumar Kaba , Arnab Kumar Mondal , Yan Zhang , Yoshua Bengio , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

Analyzing scalar and vector fields on the sphere, such as temperature or wind speed and direction on Earth, is a difficult task. Models should respect both the rotational symmetries of the sphere and the inherent symmetries of the vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Francesco Ballerin , Nello Blaser , Erlend Grong

A number of machine learning tasks entail a high degree of invariance: the data distribution does not change if we act on the data with a certain group of transformations. For instance, labels of images are invariant under translations of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-01 Song Mei , Theodor Misiakiewicz , Andrea Montanari

Deep convolutional networks provide state of the art classifications and regressions results over many high-dimensional problems. We review their architecture, which scatters data with a cascade of linear filter weights and non-linearities.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-27 Stéphane Mallat

Incorporating permutation equivariance into neural networks has proven to be useful in ensuring that models respect symmetries that exist in data. Symmetric tensors, which naturally appear in statistics, machine learning, and graph theory,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Edward Pearce-Crump

Neural networks in the real domain have been studied for a long time and achieved promising results in many vision tasks for recent years. However, the extensions of the neural network models in other number fields and their potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Xuanyu Zhu , Yi Xu , Hongteng Xu , Changjian Chen

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have enabled the state-of-the-art performance in many computer vision tasks. However, little effort has been devoted to establishing convolution in non-linear space. Existing works mainly leverage on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Chen Wang , Jianfei Yang , Lihua Xie , Junsong Yuan

The use of artificial neural networks as models of chaotic dynamics has been rapidly expanding. Still, a theoretical understanding of how neural networks learn chaos is lacking. Here, we employ a geometric perspective to show that neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Ziwei Li , Sai Ravela

Molecular interactions often involve high-order relationships that cannot be fully captured by traditional graph-based models limited to pairwise connections. Hypergraphs naturally extend graphs by enabling multi-way interactions, making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Tien Dang , Truong-Son Hy

Convolutional networks are successful, but they have recently been outperformed by new neural networks that are equivariant under rotations and translations. These new networks work better because they do not struggle with learning each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Philip Müller , Vladimir Golkov , Valentina Tomassini , Daniel Cremers

Convolutional neural network (CNN) is widely used in computer vision applications. In the networks that deal with images, CNNs are the most time-consuming layer of the networks. Usually, the solution to address the computation cost is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Meisam Rakhshanfar

Symmetries (transformations by group actions) are present in many datasets, and leveraging them holds considerable promise for improving predictions in machine learning. In this work, we aim to understand when and how deep networks -- with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Andrea Perin , Stephane Deny

During the last years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in image classification. Their architectures have largely drawn inspiration by models of the primate visual system. However, while recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Georgios Zoumpourlis , Alexandros Doumanoglou , Nicholas Vretos , Petros Daras

While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently made great strides in supervised classification of data structured on a grid (e.g. images composed of pixel grids), in several interesting datasets, the relations between features can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Shrey Gadiya , Deepak Anand , Amit Sethi

Machine learning has revolutionized the high-dimensional representations for molecular properties such as potential energy. However, there are scarce machine learning models targeting tensorial properties, which are rotationally covariant.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Yaolong Zhang , Sheng Ye , Jinxiao Zhang , Ce Hu , Jun Jiang , Bin Jiang

Neural networks based on metric recognition methods have a strictly determined architecture. Number of neurons, connections, as well as weights and thresholds values are calculated analytically, based on the initial conditions of tasks:…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Polad Geidarov

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a class of artificial neural networks whose computational blocks use convolution, together with other linear and non-linear operations, to perform classification or regression. This paper explores…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Victor Stamatescu , Mark D. McDonnell

Most existing neural networks for learning graphs address permutation invariance by conceiving of the network as a message passing scheme, where each node sums the feature vectors coming from its neighbors. We argue that this imposes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Risi Kondor , Hy Truong Son , Horace Pan , Brandon Anderson , Shubhendu Trivedi

Equivariant neural networks have shown improved performance, expressiveness and sample complexity on symmetrical domains. But for some specific symmetries, representations, and choice of coordinates, the most common point-wise activations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Marco Pacini , Xiaowen Dong , Bruno Lepri , Gabriele Santin