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Gauge symmetries play a key role in physics appearing in areas such as quantum field theories of the fundamental particles and emergent degrees of freedom in quantum materials. Motivated by the desire to efficiently simulate many-body…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-13 Di Luo , Giuseppe Carleo , Bryan K. Clark , James Stokes

Many real networks have been found to have a rich degree of symmetry, which is a very important structural property of complex network, yet has been rarely studied so far. And where does symmetry comes from has not been explained. To…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-10-09 Yanghua Xiao , Momiao Xiong , Wei Wang , Hui Wang

Self-localization during navigation with noisy sensors in an ambiguous world is computationally challenging, yet animals and humans excel at it. In robotics, Simultaneous Location and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms solve this problem though…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-12-15 Ingmar Kanitscheider , Ila Fiete

An unconventional magnet may be mapped onto a simple ferromagnet by the existence of a high-symmetry point. Knowledge of conventional ferromagnetic systems may then be carried over to provide insight into more complex orders. Here we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Nihal Rao , Ke Liu , Lode Pollet

This work provides an additional step in the theoretical understanding of neural networks. We consider neural networks with one hidden layer and show that when learning symmetric functions, one can choose initial conditions so that standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Ido Nachum , Amir Yehudayoff

We study the problem of symmetry detection of 3D shapes from single-view RGB-D images, where severely missing data renders geometric detection approach infeasible. We propose an end-to-end deep neural network which is able to predict both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Yifei Shi , Junwen Huang , Hongjia Zhang , Xin Xu , Szymon Rusinkiewicz , Kai Xu

In this work, we introduce a neural network algorithm designed to automatically identify similarity relations from data. By uncovering these similarity relations, our network approximates the underlying physical laws that relate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Gabriel Sanfins , Fabio Ramos , Danilo Naiff

Neural networks can accurately forecast complex dynamical systems, yet how they internally represent underlying latent geometry remains poorly understood. We study neural forecasters through the lens of representational alignment,…

The task of reflection symmetry detection remains challenging due to significant variations and ambiguities of symmetry patterns in the wild. Furthermore, since the local regions are required to match in reflection for detecting a symmetry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Ahyun Seo , Woohyeon Shim , Minsu Cho

Limited resources motivate decomposing large-scale problems into smaller,``local" subsystems and stitching together the so-found solutions. We explore the physics underlying this approach and discuss the concept of ``local hardness", i.e.,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-24 Mutian Shen , Gerardo Ortiz , Zhiqiao Dong , Martin Weigel , Zohar Nussinov

Graph clustering is a fundamental problem that has been extensively studied both in theory and practice. The problem has been defined in several ways in literature and most of them have been proven to be NP-Hard. Due to their high practical…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-03-27 Sumit Singh

An automata network (AN) is a finite graph where each node holds a state from a finite alphabet and is equipped with a local map defining the evolution of the state of the node depending on its neighbors. The global dynamics of the network…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Martín Ríos Wilson , Guillaume Theyssier

Quantification of symmetries in complex networks is typically done globally in terms of automorphisms. Extending previous methods to locally assess the symmetry of nodes is not straightforward. Here we present a new framework to quantify…

We develop a new unsupervised symmetry learning method that starts with raw data and provides the minimal generator of an underlying Lie group of symmetries, together with a symmetry-equivariant representation of the data, which turns the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Onur Efe , Arkadas Ozakin

The learned weights of a neural network have often been considered devoid of scrutable internal structure. In this paper, however, we look for structure in the form of clusterability: how well a network can be divided into groups of neurons…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Daniel Filan , Stephen Casper , Shlomi Hod , Cody Wild , Andrew Critch , Stuart Russell

With the ansatz that there exist local or global discrete symmetries in the special branes' neighborhoods, we can construct the extra dimension models with only zero modes, or the models which have large extra dimensions and arbitrarily…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Tianjun Li

Real-world geometry and 3D vision tasks are replete with challenging symmetries that defy tractable analytical expression. In this paper, we introduce Neural Isometries, an autoencoder framework which learns to map the observation space to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Thomas W. Mitchel , Michael Taylor , Vincent Sitzmann

Graph matching involves combinatorial optimization based on edge-to-edge affinity matrix, which can be generally formulated as Lawler's Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP). This paper presents a QAP network directly learning with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Runzhong Wang , Junchi Yan , Xiaokang Yang

Despite the success of deep functional maps in non-rigid 3D shape matching, there exists no learning framework that models both self-symmetry and shape matching simultaneously. This is despite the fact that errors due to symmetry mismatch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Abhishek Sharma , Maks Ovsjanikov

In these pedagogic notes I review the statistical mechanics approach to neural networks, focusing on the paradigmatic example of the perceptron architecture with binary an continuous weights, in the classification setting. I will review the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-20 Enrico M. Malatesta