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In order to prevent leaking input information from intermediate-layer features, this paper proposes a method to revise the traditional neural network into the rotation-equivariant neural network (RENN). Compared to the traditional neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Hao Zhang , Yiting Chen , Haotian Ma , Xu Cheng , Qihan Ren , Liyao Xiang , Jie Shi , Quanshi Zhang

Equivariance is a nice property to have as it produces much more parameter efficient neural architectures and preserves the structure of the input through the feature mapping. Even though some combinations of transformations might never…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 David W. Romero , Mark Hoogendoorn

Learning 3D point sets with rotational invariance is an important and challenging problem in machine learning. Through rotational invariant architectures, 3D point cloud neural networks are relieved from requiring a canonical global pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Hedi Zisling , Andrei Sharf

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

Equivariant neural networks have shown improved performance, expressiveness and sample complexity on symmetrical domains. But for some specific symmetries, representations, and choice of coordinates, the most common point-wise activations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Marco Pacini , Xiaowen Dong , Bruno Lepri , Gabriele Santin

Quantum neural network architectures that have little-to-no inductive biases are known to face trainability and generalization issues. Inspired by a similar problem, recent breakthroughs in machine learning address this challenge by…

Objects' rigid motions in 3D space are described by rotations and translations of a highly-correlated set of points, each with associated $x,y,z$ coordinates that real-valued networks consider as separate entities, losing information.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Guilherme Vieira , Eleonora Grassucci , Marcos Eduardo Valle , Danilo Comminiello

We address the problem of 3D rotation equivariance in convolutional neural networks. 3D rotations have been a challenging nuisance in 3D classification tasks requiring higher capacity and extended data augmentation in order to tackle it. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Carlos Esteves , Christine Allen-Blanchette , Ameesh Makadia , Kostas Daniilidis

The convolutional layers of standard convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are equivariant to translation. However, the convolution and fully-connected layers are not equivariant or invariant to other affine geometric transformations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Jaspreet Singh , Chandan Singh

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) offer state of the art performance in various computer vision tasks. Many of those tasks require different subtypes of affine invariances (scale, rotational, translational) to image transformations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Facundo Manuel Quiroga , Franco Ronchetti , Laura Lanzarini , Aurelio Fernandez-Bariviera

This paper introduces a new model to learn graph neural networks equivariant to rotations, translations, reflections and permutations called E(n)-Equivariant Graph Neural Networks (EGNNs). In contrast with existing methods, our work does…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Victor Garcia Satorras , Emiel Hoogeboom , Max Welling

Rotation invariance and translation invariance have great values in image recognition tasks. In this paper, we bring a new architecture in convolutional neural network (CNN) named cyclic convolutional layer to achieve rotation invariance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Shiyuan Li

Rotational symmetry plays a central role in physics, providing an elegant framework to describe how the properties of 3D objects -- from atoms to the macroscopic scale -- transform under the action of rigid rotations. Equivariant models of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Michelangelo Domina , Filippo Bigi , Paolo Pegolo , Michele Ceriotti

Equivariant neural networks are a class of neural networks designed to preserve symmetries inherent in the data. In this paper, we introduce a general method for modifying a neural network to enforce equivariance, a process we refer to as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Erkao Bao , Jingcheng Lu , Linqi Song , Nathan Hart-Hodgson , William Parson , Yanheng Zhou

Equivariance has been a long-standing concern in various fields ranging from computer vision to physical modeling. Most previous methods struggle with generality, simplicity, and expressiveness -- some are designed ad hoc for specific data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Shitong Luo , Jiahan Li , Jiaqi Guan , Yufeng Su , Chaoran Cheng , Jian Peng , Jianzhu Ma

This work seeks to improve the generalization and robustness of existing neural networks for 3D point clouds by inducing group equivariance under general group transformations. The main challenge when designing equivariant models for point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Thuan N. A. Trang , Thieu N. Vo , Khuong D. Nguyen

Group-equivariant quantum machine learning has emerged as a promising paradigm by incorporating symmetry into quantum models. However, constructing models simultaneously equivariant to both rotational and permutational symmetries in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Semin Park , Chae-Yeun Park

Recently, learning equivariant representations has attracted considerable research attention. Dieleman et al. introduce four operations which can be inserted into convolutional neural network to learn deep representations equivariant to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Junying Li , Zichen Yang , Haifeng Liu , Deng Cai

This article deals with approximating steady-state particle-resolved fluid flow around a fixed particle of interest under the influence of randomly distributed stationary particles in a dispersed multiphase setup using Convolutional Neural…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-25 Bhargav Sriram Siddani , S. Balachandar , Ruogu Fang

We present a new permutation-invariant network for 3D point cloud processing. Our network is composed of a recurrent set encoder and a convolutional feature aggregator. Given an unordered point set, the encoder firstly partitions its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Pengxiang Wu , Chao Chen , Jingru Yi , Dimitris Metaxas