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Learning from set-structured data, such as point clouds, has gained significant attention from the machine learning community. Geometric deep learning provides a blueprint for designing effective set neural networks that preserve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Abihith Kothapalli , Ashkan Shahbazi , Xinran Liu , Robert Sheng , Soheil Kolouri

The difficult problem of relating the static structure of glassy liquids and their dynamics is a good target for Machine Learning, an approach which excels at finding complex patterns hidden in data. Indeed, this approach is currently a hot…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-29 Francesco Saverio Pezzicoli , Guillaume Charpiat , François P. Landes

Capsule networks are a type of neural network that have recently gained increased popularity. They consist of groups of neurons, called capsules, which encode properties of objects or object parts. The connections between capsules encrypt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Josef Gugglberger , David Peer , Antonio Rodriguez-Sanchez

In this paper we introduce a new inductive bias for capsule networks and call networks that use this prior $\gamma$-capsule networks. Our inductive bias that is inspired by TE neurons of the inferior temporal cortex increases the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 David Peer , Sebastian Stabinger , Antonio Rodriguez-Sanchez

Neural networks that process the parameters of other neural networks find applications in domains as diverse as classifying implicit neural representations, generating neural network weights, and predicting generalization errors. However,…

Rotation-invariance is a desired property of machine-learning models for medical image analysis and in particular for computational pathology applications. We propose a framework to encode the geometric structure of the special Euclidean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Maxime W. Lafarge , Erik J. Bekkers , Josien P. W. Pluim , Remco Duits , Mitko Veta

The group invariance of entanglement is obtained within a very general and simple setup of the latter, given by a recently introduced considerably extended concept of tensor products. This general approach to entanglement - unlike the usual…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2008-08-04 Elemer E Rosinger

Recordings of increasingly large neural populations have revealed that the firing of individual neurons is highly coordinated. When viewed in the space of all possible patterns, the collective activity forms non-linear structures called…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-14 Arianna Di Bernardo , Adrian Valente , Francesca Mastrogiuseppe , Srdjan Ostojic

We construct and evaluate group-equivariant neural networks for the prediction of the two-dimensional $Q$-tensor order parameter of nematic liquid crystals from synthetically generated microscopic textures. Seven architectures, equivariant…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-28 Julia Navarro , Mark Wilkinson

A formal description of the compositionality of neural networks is associated directly with the formal grammar-structure of the objects it seeks to represent. This formal grammar-structure specifies the kind of components that make up an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Sai Raam Venkatraman , Ankit Anand , S. Balasubramanian , R. Raghunatha Sarma

Symmetry-aware architectures are central to geometric deep learning. We present a systematic approach for constructing continuous rotationally invariant and equivariant functions using symmetric tensor networks. The proposed framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Meng Zhang , Chao Wang , Hao Zhang , Shaojun Dong , Lixin He

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

The inclusion of symmetries as an inductive bias, known as equivariance, often improves generalization on geometric data (e.g. grids, sets, and graphs). However, equivariant architectures are usually highly constrained, designed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Abhinav Goel , Derek Lim , Hannah Lawrence , Stefanie Jegelka , Ningyuan Huang

In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have played an important role in the field of deep learning. Variants of CNN's have proven to be very successful in classification tasks across different domains. However, there are two…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-12 Edgar Xi , Selina Bing , Yang Jin

In the recent application of scientific modeling, machine learning models are largely applied to facilitate computational simulations of fluid systems. Rotation symmetry is a general property for most symmetric fluid systems. However, in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Liyao Gao , Yifan Du , Hongshan Li , Guang Lin

The study of $G$-equivariant operators is of great interest to explain and understand the architecture of neural networks. In this paper we show that each linear $G$-equivariant operator can be produced by a suitable permutant measure,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-11 Giovanni Bocchi , Stefano Botteghi , Martina Brasini , Patrizio Frosini , Nicola Quercioli

Capsule networks use routing algorithms to flow information between consecutive layers. In the existing routing procedures, capsules produce predictions (termed votes) for capsules of the next layer. In a nutshell, the next-layer capsule's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Zhihao Zhao , Samuel Cheng

Physical theories grounded in mathematical symmetries are an essential component of our understanding of a wide range of properties of the universe. Similarly, in the domain of machine learning, an awareness of symmetries such as rotation…

We develop a theory of category-equivariant neural networks (CENNs) that unifies group/groupoid-equivariant networks, poset/lattice-equivariant networks, graph and sheaf neural networks. Equivariance is formulated as naturality in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Yoshihiro Maruyama

Recent foundational models for tabular data, such as TabPFN, excel at adapting to new tasks via in-context learning, but remain constrained to a fixed, pre-defined number of target dimensions-often necessitating costly ensembling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Michael Arbel , David Salinas , Frank Hutter