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Learning and reasoning about 3D molecular structures with varying size is an emerging and important challenge in machine learning and especially in drug discovery. Equivariant Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) can simultaneously leverage the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Tuan Le , Frank Noé , Djork-Arné Clevert

Many data symmetries can be described in terms of group equivariance and the most common way of encoding group equivariances in neural networks is by building linear layers that are group equivariant. In this work we investigate whether…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Georg Bökman , Fredrik Kahl

Convolutions encode equivariance symmetries into neural networks leading to better generalisation performance. However, symmetries provide fixed hard constraints on the functions a network can represent, need to be specified in advance, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Tycho F. A. van der Ouderaa , Alexander Immer , Mark van der Wilk

We extend the concept of graph isomorphisms to multilayer networks with any number of "aspects" (i.e., types of layering). In developing this generalization, we identify multiple types of isomorphisms. For example, in multilayer networks…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-02-17 Mikko Kivelä , Mason A. Porter

Equivariant neural networks provide a principled framework for incorporating symmetry into learning architectures and have been extensively analyzed through the lens of their separation power, that is, the ability to distinguish inputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Marco Pacini , Gabriele Santin , Bruno Lepri , Shubhendu Trivedi

The universal approximation theorem establishes that neural networks can approximate any continuous function on a compact set. Later works in approximation theory provide quantitative approximation rates for ReLU networks on the class of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jonathan W. Siegel , Snir Hordan , Hannah Lawrence , Ali Syed , Nadav Dym

Deep neural networks have achieved great success in the last decade. When designing neural networks to handle the ubiquitous geometric data such as point clouds and graphs, it is critical that the model can maintain invariance towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ziwei Zhang , Xin Wang , Zeyang Zhang , Peng Cui , Wenwu Zhu

Recent advances in Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNNs) have shown their efficiency for non-Euclidean data on graphs, which often require a large amount of labeled data with high cost. It it thus critical to learn graph feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Xiang Gao , Wei Hu , Guo-Jun Qi

A key requirement for graph neural networks is that they must process a graph in a way that does not depend on how the graph is described. Traditionally this has been taken to mean that a graph network must be equivariant to node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Pim de Haan , Taco Cohen , Max Welling

We present the Topology Transformation Equivariant Representation learning, a general paradigm of self-supervised learning for node representations of graph data to enable the wide applicability of Graph Convolutional Neural Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Xiang Gao , Wei Hu , Guo-Jun Qi

The nature of heterophilous graphs is significantly different from that of homophilous graphs, which causes difficulties in early graph neural network models and suggests aggregations beyond the 1-hop neighborhood. In this paper, we develop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Jianfei Li , Ruigang Zheng , Han Feng , Ming Li , Xiaosheng Zhuang

Network data can be conveniently modeled as a graph signal, where data values are assigned to nodes of a graph that describes the underlying network topology. Successful learning from network data is built upon methods that effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Fernando Gama , Elvin Isufi , Geert Leus , Alejandro Ribeiro

Graph matching refers to finding node correspondence between graphs, such that the corresponding node and edge's affinity can be maximized. In addition with its NP-completeness nature, another important challenge is effective modeling of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Runzhong Wang , Junchi Yan , Xiaokang Yang

In recent years, deep learning techniques have shown great success in various tasks related to inverse problems, where a target quantity of interest can only be observed through indirect measurements by a forward operator. Common approaches…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Matthias Beckmann , Nick Heilenkötter

Using deep neural networks that are either invariant or equivariant to permutations in order to learn functions on unordered sets has become prevalent. The most popular, basic models are DeepSets [Zaheer et al. 2017] and PointNet [Qi et al.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Nimrod Segol , Yaron Lipman

Numerous invariant (or equivariant) neural networks have succeeded in handling invariant data such as point clouds and graphs. However, a generalization theory for the neural networks has not been well developed, because several essential…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-22 Akiyoshi Sannai , Masaaki Imaizumi , Makoto Kawano

Many scientific problems require to process data in the form of geometric graphs. Unlike generic graph data, geometric graphs exhibit symmetries of translations, rotations, and/or reflections. Researchers have leveraged such inductive bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Jiaqi Han , Yu Rong , Tingyang Xu , Wenbing Huang

Permutation equivariant neural networks are typically used to learn from data that lives on a graph. However, for any graph $G$ that has $n$ vertices, using the symmetric group $S_n$ as its group of symmetries does not take into account the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Edward Pearce-Crump , William J. Knottenbelt

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a well-regarded tool for learned control of networked dynamical systems due to their ability to be deployed in a distributed manner. However, current distributed GNN architectures assume that all nodes in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Samuel Honor , Mohamed Abdelnaby , Kevin Leahy

Equivariant Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse scientific applications. However, existing approaches face critical efficiency challenges when scaling to large geometric graphs and suffer significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yuelin Zhang , Jiacheng Cen , Jiaqi Han , Wenbing Huang