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Graph convolutional neural networks (GCNs) generalize tradition convolutional neural networks (CNNs) from low-dimensional regular graphs (e.g., image) to high dimensional irregular graphs (e.g., text documents on word embeddings). Due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Mehrnaz Najafi , Philip S. Yu

Equivariant quantum neural networks (QNNs) are promising variational models that exploit symmetries to improve machine learning capabilities. Despite theoretical developments in equivariant QNNs, their implementation on near-term quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Koki Chinzei , Quoc Hoan Tran , Yasuhiro Endo , Hirotaka Oshima

Group equivariant neural networks have proven effective in modelling a wide range of tasks where the data lives in a classical geometric space and exhibits well-defined group symmetries. However, these networks are not suitable for learning…

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

Learning to reason about relations and dynamics over multiple interacting objects is a challenging topic in machine learning. The challenges mainly stem from that the interacting systems are exponentially-compositional, symmetrical, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Wenbing Huang , Jiaqi Han , Yu Rong , Tingyang Xu , Fuchun Sun , Junzhou Huang

The purpose of this short and simple note is to clarify a common misconception about convolutional neural networks (CNNs). CNNs are made up of convolutional layers which are shift equivariant due to weight sharing. However, convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Nick McGreivy , Ammar Hakim

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have rapidly risen in popularity for many machine learning applications, particularly in the field of image recognition. Much of the benefit generated from these networks comes from their ability to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Maxwell Henderson , Samriddhi Shakya , Shashindra Pradhan , Tristan Cook

Incorporating inductive biases into ML models is an active area of ML research, especially when ML models are applied to data about the physical world. Equivariant Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently become a popular method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Savannah Thais , Daniel Murnane

Lattice gauge equivariant convolutional neural networks (L-CNNs) are a framework for convolutional neural networks that can be applied to non-Abelian lattice gauge theories without violating gauge symmetry. We demonstrate how L-CNNs can be…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-03-22 Jimmy Aronsson , David I. Müller , Daniel Schuh

We propose the use of group convolutional neural network architectures (GCNNs) equivariant to the 2D Euclidean group, $E(2)$, for the task of galaxy morphology classification by utilizing symmetries of the data present in galaxy images as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-06 Sneh Pandya , Purvik Patel , Franc O , Jonathan Blazek

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) traditionally encode translation equivariance via the convolution operation. Generalization to other transformations has recently received attraction to encode the knowledge of the data geometry in group…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Vincent Andrearczyk , Adrien Depeursinge

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) come in many flavors, but should always be either invariant (permutation of the nodes of the input graph does not affect the output) or equivariant (permutation of the input permutes the output). In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Nicolas Keriven , Gabriel Peyré

This paper presents a novel framework for non-linear equivariant neural network layers on homogeneous spaces. The seminal work of Cohen et al. on equivariant $G$-CNNs on homogeneous spaces characterized the representation theory of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Elias Nyholm , Oscar Carlsson , Maurice Weiler , Daniel Persson

We propose Lattice gauge equivariant Convolutional Neural Networks (L-CNNs) for generic machine learning applications on lattice gauge theoretical problems. At the heart of this network structure is a novel convolutional layer that…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-02-22 Matteo Favoni , Andreas Ipp , David I. Müller , Daniel Schuh

To read the final version please go to IEEE TGRS on IEEE Xplore. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been attracting increasing attention in hyperspectral (HS) image classification, owing to their ability to capture spatial-spectral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Danfeng Hong , Lianru Gao , Jing Yao , Bing Zhang , Antonio Plaza , Jocelyn Chanussot

Equivariance is a nice property to have as it produces much more parameter efficient neural architectures and preserves the structure of the input through the feature mapping. Even though some combinations of transformations might never…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 David W. Romero , Mark Hoogendoorn

Automatic tumor or lesion segmentation is a crucial step in medical image analysis for computer-aided diagnosis. Although the existing methods based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved the state-of-the-art performance,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-01 Shuchao Pang , Anan Du , Mehmet A. Orgun , Yan Wang , Quan Z. Sheng , Shoujin Wang , Xiaoshui Huang , Zhenmei Yu

An important goal in visual recognition is to devise image representations that are invariant to particular transformations. In this paper, we address this goal with a new type of convolutional neural network (CNN) whose invariance is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Julien Mairal , Piotr Koniusz , Zaid Harchaoui , Cordelia Schmid

Weight sharing in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) ensures that their feature maps will be translation-equivariant. However, although conventional convolutions are equivariant to translation, they are not equivariant to other isometries…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 Anna M. M. Scaife , Fiona Porter

Group convolutional layers with respect to some group $G$ are modeled by convolutions or cross-correlations with a filter, and they provide the fundamental building block for group convolutional neural networks. For entirely unconstrained…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Benedikt Fluhr

This paper presents RadioGUNet, a UNet-based deep learning framework for pathloss estimation in wireless communication. Unlike other frameworks, it leverages group equivariant convolutional networks, which are known to increase the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Ziyue Yang , Feng Liu , Yifei Jin , Konstantinos Vandikas