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We approach the well-studied problem of supervised group invariant and equivariant machine learning from the point of view of geometric topology. We propose a novel approach using a pre-processing step, which involves projecting the input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Benjamin Aslan , Daniel Platt , David Sheard

In recent years, the CNNs have achieved great successes in the image processing tasks, e.g., image recognition and object detection. Unfortunately, traditional CNN's classification is found to be easily misled by increasingly complex image…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Xingyao Zhang , Shuaiwen Leon Song , Chenhao Xie , Jing Wang , Weigong Zhang , Xin Fu

Latent representations are used extensively for downstream tasks, such as visualization, interpolation or feature extraction of deep learning models. Invariant and equivariant neural networks are powerful and well-established models for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Andreas Abildtrup Hansen , Anna Calissano , Aasa Feragen

Employing equivariance in neural networks leads to greater parameter efficiency and improved generalization performance through the encoding of domain knowledge in the architecture; however, the majority of existing approaches require an a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Emmanouil Theodosis , Karim Helwani , Demba Ba

Recently, many deep neural networks were designed to process 3D point clouds, but a common drawback is that rotation invariance is not ensured, leading to poor generalization to arbitrary orientations. In this paper, we introduce a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Xianzhi Li , Ruihui Li , Guangyong Chen , Chi-Wing Fu , Daniel Cohen-Or , Pheng-Ann Heng

Group equivariance has emerged as a valuable inductive bias in deep learning, enhancing generalization, data efficiency, and robustness. Classically, group equivariant methods require the groups of interest to be known beforehand, which may…

Solving the intricate quantum behavior of interacting particles is key to unlocking the mysteries of condensed matter, but capturing their complex correlations across different scales remains a monumental challenge. We introduce a neural…

Capsule Networks, as alternatives to Convolutional Neural Networks, have been proposed to recognize objects from images. The current literature demonstrates many advantages of CapsNets over CNNs. However, how to create explanations for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp

In certain situations, neural networks are trained upon data that obey underlying symmetries. However, the predictions do not respect the symmetries exactly unless embedded in the network structure. In this work, we introduce architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Anwesh Bhattacharya , Marios Mattheakis , Pavlos Protopapas

In this draft paper, we introduce a novel architecture for graph networks which is equivariant to the Euclidean group in $n$-dimensions. The model is designed to work with graph networks in their general form and can be shown to include…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Emma Slade , Francesco Farina

Recent research has shown that incorporating equivariance into neural network architectures is very helpful, and there have been some works investigating the equivariance of networks under group actions. However, as digital images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Zhengyang Shen , Lingshen He , Zhouchen Lin , Jinwen Ma

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

Variational algorithms require architectures that naturally constrain the optimization space to run efficiently. Geometric quantum machine learning achieves this goal by encoding group structure into parameterized quantum circuits to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Richard D. P. East , Guillermo Alonso-Linaje , Chae-Yeun Park

Much work has been devoted to devising architectures that build group-equivariant representations, while invariance is often induced using simple global pooling mechanisms. Little work has been done on creating expressive layers that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Kamil Bujel , Yonatan Gideoni , Chaitanya K. Joshi , Pietro Liò

This paper presents a transformative framework for artificial neural networks over graded vector spaces, tailored to model hierarchical and structured data in fields like algebraic geometry and physics. By exploiting the algebraic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Tony Shaska

Despite the recent active research on processing point clouds with deep networks, few attention has been on the sensitivity of the networks to rotations. In this paper, we propose a deep learning architecture that achieves discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Jiaxin Li , Yingcai Bi , Gim Hee Lee

Many geometric learning problems require invariants on heterogeneous product spaces, i.e., products of distinct spaces carrying different group actions, where standard techniques do not directly apply. We show that, when a group $G$ acts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Alejandro García-Castellanos , Gijs Bellaard , Remco Duits , Daniel Pelt , Erik J Bekkers

We survey the mathematical foundations of geometric deep learning, focusing on group equivariant and gauge equivariant neural networks. We develop gauge equivariant convolutional neural networks on arbitrary manifolds $\mathcal{M}$ using…

A machine learning model is traditionally considered robust if its prediction remains (almost) constant under input perturbations with small norm. However, real-world tasks like molecular property prediction or point cloud segmentation have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jan Schuchardt , Yan Scholten , Stephan Günnemann

Data arrives at our senses as a continuous stream, smoothly transforming from one instant to the next. These smooth transformations can be viewed as continuous symmetries of the environment that we inhabit, defining equivalence relations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 T. Anderson Keller