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Transporter Net is a recently proposed framework for pick and place that is able to learn good manipulation policies from a very few expert demonstrations. A key reason why Transporter Net is so sample efficient is that the model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Haojie Huang , Dian Wang , Robin Walters , Robert Platt

In this paper we propose integrating a priori knowledge into both design and training of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to learn object representations that are invariant to affine transformations (i.e., translation, scale, rotation).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xenju Xu , Guanghui Wang , Alan Sullivan , Ziming Zhang

The success of convolutional networks in learning problems involving planar signals such as images is due to their ability to exploit the translation symmetry of the data distribution through weight sharing. Many areas of science and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Taco Cohen , Mario Geiger , Jonas Köhler , Max Welling

In this paper we introduce ShiftCNN, a generalized low-precision architecture for inference of multiplierless convolutional neural networks (CNNs). ShiftCNN is based on a power-of-two weight representation and, as a result, performs only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Denis A. Gudovskiy , Luca Rigazio

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are now being widely used for classifying and detecting pulmonary abnormalities in chest radiographs. Two complementary generalization properties of CNNs, translation invariance and equivariance, are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Edward Verenich , Tobias Martin , Alvaro Velasquez , Nazar Khan , Faraz Hussain

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a class of Artificial Neural Networks(ANNs) that employ the method of convolving input images with filter-kernels for object recognition and classification purposes. In this paper, we propose a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Hengameh Bagherian , Scott Skirlo , Yichen Shen , Huaiyu Meng , Vladimir Ceperic , Marin Soljacic

We present the group equivariant conditional neural process (EquivCNP), a meta-learning method with permutation invariance in a data set as in conventional conditional neural processes (CNPs), and it also has transformation equivariance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Makoto Kawano , Wataru Kumagai , Akiyoshi Sannai , Yusuke Iwasawa , Yutaka Matsuo

We design a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) which studies correlation between discretized inverse temperature and spin configuration of 2D Ising model and show that it can find a feature of the phase transition without teaching any a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-06-27 Akinori Tanaka , Akio Tomiya

We propose a framework for rotation and translation covariant deep learning using $SE(2)$ group convolutions. The group product of the special Euclidean motion group $SE(2)$ describes how a concatenation of two roto-translations results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Erik J Bekkers , Maxime W Lafarge , Mitko Veta , Koen AJ Eppenhof , Josien PW Pluim , Remco Duits

We present a method for learning discriminative filters using a shallow Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). We encode rotation invariance directly in the model by tying the weights of groups of filters to several rotated versions of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Diego Marcos , Michele Volpi , Devis Tuia

In recent years the use of convolutional layers to encode an inductive bias (translational equivariance) in neural networks has proven to be a very fruitful idea. The successes of this approach have motivated a line of research into…

We present the partial evolutionary tensor neural networks (pETNNs), a novel framework for solving time-dependent partial differential equations with high accuracy and capable of handling high-dimensional problems. Our architecture…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Tunan Kao , He Zhang , Lei Zhang , Jin Zhao

While widespread, Transformers lack inductive biases for geometric symmetries common in science and computer vision. Existing equivariant methods often sacrifice the efficiency and flexibility that make Transformers so effective through…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are very effective for many pattern recognition tasks. However, training deep CNNs needs extensive computation and large training data. In this paper we propose Bank of Filter-Trees (BFT) as a trans- fer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Suresh Kirthi Kumaraswamy , PS Sastry , KR Ramakrishnan

Track reconstruction algorithms are critical for polarization measurements. In addition to traditional moment-based track reconstruction approaches, convolutional neural networks (CNN) are a promising alternative. However, hexagonal grid…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-15 Ya-Nan Li , Jia-Huan Zhu , Huai-Zhong Gao , Hong Li , Ji-Rong Cang , Zhi Zeng , Hua Feng , Ming Zeng

In modern computer vision tasks, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are indispensable for image classification tasks due to their efficiency and effectiveness. Part of their superiority compared to other architectures, comes from the fact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Vighnesh Birodkar , Hossein Mobahi , Dilip Krishnan , Samy Bengio

Artificial neural networks have achieved great success in many fields ranging from image recognition to video understanding. However, its high requirements for computing and memory resources have limited further development on processing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-05 Yanxuan Lü , Qing Gao , Jinhu Lü , Maciej Ogorzałek , Jin Zheng

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are known to be brittle under various image transformations, including rotations, scalings, and changes of lighting conditions. We observe that the features of a transformed image are drastically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Shaohua Li , Xiuchao Sui , Jie Fu , Yong Liu , Rick Siow Mong Goh

We present the results of the comparative analysis of the performance versus complexity for several types of artificial neural networks (NNs) used for nonlinear channel equalization in coherent optical communication systems. The comparison…