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We present a novel framework to overcome the limitations of equivariant architectures in learning functions with group symmetries. In contrary to equivariant architectures, we use an arbitrary base model such as an MLP or a transformer and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jinwoo Kim , Tien Dat Nguyen , Ayhan Suleymanzade , Hyeokjun An , Seunghoon Hong

We analyze the role of rotational equivariance in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) applied to spherical images. We compare the performance of the group equivariant networks known as S2CNNs and standard non-equivariant CNNs trained with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Jan E. Gerken , Oscar Carlsson , Hampus Linander , Fredrik Ohlsson , Christoffer Petersson , Daniel Persson

In this paper, we utilize hyperspheres and regular $n$-simplexes and propose an approach to learning deep features equivariant under the transformations of $n$D reflections and rotations, encompassed by the powerful group of O$(n)$. Namely,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Pavlo Melnyk , Michael Felsberg , Mårten Wadenbäck , Andreas Robinson , Cuong Le

As deep learning applications continue to become more diverse, an interesting question arises: Can general problem solving arise from jointly learning several such diverse tasks? To approach this question, deep multi-task learning is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Elliot Meyerson , Risto Miikkulainen

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 paper we derive an efficient algorithm to learn the parameters of structured predictors in general graphical models. This algorithm blends the learning and inference tasks, which results in a significant speedup over traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-02 Tamir Hazan , Alexander Schwing , David McAllester , Raquel Urtasun

Leveraging the symmetries inherent to specific data domains for the construction of equivariant neural networks has lead to remarkable improvements in terms of data efficiency and generalization. However, most existing research focuses on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 David W. Romero , Erik J. Bekkers , Jakub M. Tomczak , Mark Hoogendoorn

Multi-task learning aims to improve generalization performance of multiple prediction tasks by appropriately sharing relevant information across them. In the context of deep neural networks, this idea is often realized by hand-designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yongxi Lu , Abhishek Kumar , Shuangfei Zhai , Yu Cheng , Tara Javidi , Rogerio Feris

Face sketch to digital image matching is an important challenge of face recognition that involves matching across different domains. Current research efforts have primarily focused on extracting domain invariant representations or learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Shruti Nagpal , Maneet Singh , Richa Singh , Mayank Vatsa , Afzel Noore , Angshul Majumdar

Equivariant neural networks, whose hidden features transform according to representations of a group G acting on the data, exhibit training efficiency and an improved generalisation performance. In this work, we extend group invariant and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Robin Winter , Marco Bertolini , Tuan Le , Frank Noé , Djork-Arné Clevert

In recent years, powered by the learned discriminative representation via graph neural network (GNN) models, deep graph matching methods have made great progresses in the task of matching semantic features. However, these methods usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 He Liu , Tao Wang , Yidong Li , Congyan Lang , Yi Jin , Haibin Ling

Owing to the use of attention mechanism to leverage the dependency across tokens, Transformers are efficient for natural language processing. By harnessing permutation properties broadly exist in resource allocation policies, each mapping…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Jia Guo , Chenyang Yang

In neural networks, the property of being equivariant to transformations improves generalization when the corresponding symmetry is present in the data. In particular, scale-equivariant networks are suited to computer vision tasks where the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-11 Mateus Sangalli , Samy Blusseau , Santiago Velasco-Forero , Jesus Angulo

As neural networks are increasingly being applied to real-world applications, mechanisms to address distributional shift and sequential task learning without forgetting are critical. Methods incorporating network expansion have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Vinay Kumar Verma , Kevin J Liang , Nikhil Mehta , Piyush Rai , Lawrence Carin

Training fair machine learning models, aiming for their interpretability and solving the problem of domain shift has gained a lot of interest in the last years. There is a vast amount of work addressing these topics, mostly in separation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Linda H. Boedi , Helmut Grabner

Neural models learn data representations that lie on low-dimensional manifolds, yet modeling the relation between these representational spaces is an ongoing challenge. By integrating spectral geometry principles into neural modeling, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Marco Fumero , Marco Pegoraro , Valentino Maiorca , Francesco Locatello , Emanuele Rodolà

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results on many visual recognition tasks. However, current CNN models still exhibit a poor ability to be invariant to spatial transformations of images. Intuitively, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Xu Shen , Xinmei Tian , Anfeng He , Shaoyan Sun , Dacheng Tao

We introduce a method to design a computationally efficient $G$-invariant neural network that approximates functions invariant to the action of a given permutation subgroup $G \leq S_n$ of the symmetric group on input data. The key element…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Piotr Kicki , Mete Ozay , Piotr Skrzypczyński

Equivariant neural networks incorporate symmetries through group actions, embedding them as an inductive bias to improve performance. Existing methods learn an equivariant action on the latent space, or design architectures that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Riccardo Ali , Pietro Liò , Jamie Vicary

Normalization Equivariance (NE) is a structural prior that improves robustness to distribution shift in image-to-image tasks. A function $f$ is normalization equivariant iff $f(a y + b\mathbf{1}) = a f(y) + b\mathbf{1}$ for all $a>0$ and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Youssef Saied , François Fleuret