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A symmetry is a `change without change'. As simple as it sounds, this concept is the fundamental cornerstone that unifies all branches of theoretical physics. Virtually all physical laws -- ranging from classical mechanics and…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-25 Hernan A. Makse , Paolo Boldi , Francesco Sorrentino , Ian Stewart

Identifying symmetries in data sets is generally difficult, but knowledge about them is crucial for efficient data handling. Here we present a method how neural networks can be used to identify symmetries. We make extensive use of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Sven Krippendorf , Marc Syvaeri

Symmetry is omnipresent in nature and perceived by the visual system of many species, as it facilitates detecting ecologically important classes of objects in our environment. Symmetry perception requires abstraction of long-range spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Shobhita Sundaram , Darius Sinha , Matthew Groth , Tomotake Sasaki , Xavier Boix

The dynamics of learning in modern large AI systems is hierarchical, often characterized by abrupt, qualitative shifts akin to phase transitions observed in physical systems. While these phenomena hold promise for uncovering the mechanisms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Liu Ziyin , Yizhou Xu , Tomaso Poggio , Isaac Chuang

Using symmetry as an inductive bias in deep learning has been proven to be a principled approach for sample-efficient model design. However, the relationship between symmetry and the imperative for equivariance in neural networks is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Sékou-Oumar Kaba , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

We propose to impose symmetry in neural network parameters to improve parameter usage and make use of dedicated convolution and matrix multiplication routines. Due to significant reduction in the number of parameters as a result of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Xu Shell Hu , Sergey Zagoruyko , Nikos Komodakis

We survey the role of symmetry in diffeomorphic registration of landmarks, curves, surfaces, images and higher-order data. The infinite dimensional problem of finding correspondences between objects can for a range of concrete data types be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Stefan Sommer , Henry O. Jacobs

Automated symmetry detection is still a difficult task in 2021. However, it has applications in computer vision, and it also plays an important part in understanding art. This paper focuses on aiding the latter by comparing different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Koen Ponse , Anna V. Kononova , Maria Loleyt , Bas van Stein

Objects with symmetries are common in our daily life and in industrial contexts, but are often ignored in the recent literature on 6D pose estimation from images. In this paper, we study in an analytical way the link between the symmetries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Giorgia Pitteri , Michaël Ramamonjisoa , Slobodan Ilic , Vincent Lepetit

Synchronization is of central importance in power distribution, telecommunication, neuronal, and biological networks. Many networks are observed to produce patterns of synchronized clusters, but it has been difficult to predict these…

It is hard to overstate the importance that the concept of symmetry has had in every field of physics, a fact alluded to by the Nobel Prize winner P.W. Anderson, who once wrote that physics is the study of symmetry. Whereas the idea of…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-07-17 Jørgen Vitting Andersen , Andrzej Nowak

Machine learning is often viewed as an inherently value-neutral process: statistical tendencies in the training inputs are "simply" used to generalize to new examples. However when models impact social systems such as interactions between…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Ben Hutchinson , KJ Pittl , Margaret Mitchell

Symmetry distills the simplicity of natural laws from the complexity of physical phenomena. The symmetry principle is of vital importance in various aspects of modern physics, including analyzing atomic spectra, determining fundamental…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-14 Congjun Wu

The problem of detecting and quantifying the presence of symmetries in datasets is useful for model selection, generative modeling, and data analysis, amongst others. While existing methods for hard-coding transformations in neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Alex Gabel , Victoria Klein , Riccardo Valperga , Jeroen S. W. Lamb , Kevin Webster , Rick Quax , Efstratios Gavves

Symmetries are key properties of physical models and of experimental designs, but any proposed symmetry may or may not be realized in nature. In this paper, we introduce a practical and general method to test such suspected symmetries in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-25 Rupert Tombs , Christopher G. Lester

Enforcing exact symmetry in machine learning models often yields significant gains in scientific applications, serving as a powerful inductive bias. However, recent work suggests that relying on approximate symmetry can offer greater…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Behrooz Tahmasebi , Melanie Weber

Many algorithms and observed phenomena in deep learning appear to be affected by parameter symmetries -- transformations of neural network parameters that do not change the underlying neural network function. These include linear mode…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Derek Lim , Theo Moe Putterman , Robin Walters , Haggai Maron , Stefanie Jegelka

Symmetries are ubiquitous in real networks and often characterize network features and functions. Here we present a generalization of network symmetry called \emph{latent symmetry}, which is an extension of the standard notion of symmetry.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-17 Dallas Smith , Benjamin Webb

The recent progresses in Machine Learning opened the door to actual applications of learning algorithms but also to new research directions both in the field of Machine Learning directly and, at the edges with other disciplines. The case…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-07-17 Aurélien Decelle

Humans take advantage of real world symmetries for various tasks, yet capturing their superb symmetry perception mechanism with a computational model remains elusive. Motivated by a new study demonstrating the extremely high inter-person…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Christopher Funk , Yanxi Liu