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Deep metrics have been shown effective as similarity measures in multi-modal image registration; however, the metrics are currently constructed from aligned image pairs in the training data. In this paper, we propose a strategy for learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Alireza Sedghi , Jie Luo , Alireza Mehrtash , Steve Pieper , Clare M. Tempany , Tina Kapur , Parvin Mousavi , William M. Wells

In disentangled representation learning, a model is asked to tease apart a dataset's underlying sources of variation and represent them independently of one another. Since the model is provided with no ground truth information about these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Kyle Hsu , Will Dorrell , James C. R. Whittington , Jiajun Wu , Chelsea Finn

In the past few years, deep learning-based methods have demonstrated enormous success for solving inverse problems in medical imaging. In this work, we address the following question:\textit{Given a set of measurements obtained from real…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-24 Ortal Senouf , Sanketh Vedula , Tomer Weiss , Alex Bronstein , Oleg Michailovich , Michael Zibulevsky

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

We investigate how symmetries present in datasets affect the structure of the latent space learned by Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). By training VAEs on data originating from simple mechanical systems and particle collisions, we analyze…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Veronica Sanz

Deep latent variable models learn condensed representations of data that, hopefully, reflect the inner workings of the studied phenomena. Unfortunately, these latent representations are not statistically identifiable, meaning they cannot be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-02 Stas Syrota , Yevgen Zainchkovskyy , Johnny Xi , Benjamin Bloem-Reddy , Søren Hauberg

Identifying the dynamical state variables of a system from high-dimensional observations is a central problem across physical sciences. The challenge is that the state variables are not directly observable and must be inferred from raw…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-04-28 K. Michael Martini , Eslam Abdelaleem , Paarth Gulati , Ilya Nemenman

Diverse inverse problems in imaging can be cast as variational problems composed of a task-specific data fidelity term and a regularization term. In this paper, we propose a novel learnable general-purpose regularizer exploiting recent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Erich Kobler , Alexander Effland , Karl Kunisch , Thomas Pock

Symmetry in the parameter space of deep neural networks (DNNs) has proven beneficial for various deep learning applications. A well-known example is the permutation symmetry in Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs), where permuting the rows of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Binchi Zhang , Zaiyi Zheng , Zhengzhang Chen , Jundong Li

Data living on manifolds commonly appear in many applications. Often this results from an inherently latent low-dimensional system being observed through higher dimensional measurements. We show that under certain conditions, it is possible…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-05 Ariel Schwartz , Ronen Talmon

Learning dynamics is essential for model-based control and Reinforcement Learning in engineering systems, such as robotics and power systems. However, limited system measurements, such as those from low-resolution sensors, demand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Haoran Li , Chenhan Xiao , Muhao Guo , Yang Weng

Correctly capturing the symmetry transformations of data can lead to efficient models with strong generalization capabilities, though methods incorporating symmetries often require prior knowledge. While recent advancements have been made…

Recent work has shown deep learning can accelerate the prediction of physical dynamics relative to numerical solvers. However, limited physical accuracy and an inability to generalize under distributional shift limit its applicability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Rui Wang , Robin Walters , Rose Yu

In recent years, several unsupervised, "contrastive" learning algorithms in vision have been shown to learn representations that perform remarkably well on transfer tasks. We show that this family of algorithms maximizes a lower bound on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Mike Wu , Chengxu Zhuang , Milan Mosse , Daniel Yamins , Noah Goodman

Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful generative priors for solving inverse problems. However, training diffusion models in the pixel space are both data-intensive and computationally demanding, which restricts their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Bowen Song , Soo Min Kwon , Zecheng Zhang , Xinyu Hu , Qing Qu , Liyue Shen

We present a framework designed to learn the underlying dynamics between two images observed at consecutive time steps. The complex nature of image data and the lack of temporal information pose significant challenges in capturing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Jihun Han , Yoonsang Lee , Anne Gelb

Assumptions about invariances or symmetries in data can significantly increase the predictive power of statistical models. Many commonly used models in machine learning are constraint to respect certain symmetries in the data, such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-03 Tycho F. A. van der Ouderaa , Mark van der Wilk

Incorporating symmetries can lead to highly data-efficient and generalizable models by defining equivalence classes of data samples related by transformations. However, characterizing how transformations act on input data is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Jung Yeon Park , Ondrej Biza , Linfeng Zhao , Jan Willem van de Meent , Robin Walters

The requirement of generating predictions that exactly fulfill the fundamental symmetry of the corresponding physical quantities has profoundly shaped the development of machine-learning models for physical simulations. In many cases,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Michelangelo Domina , Joseph William Abbott , Paolo Pegolo , Filippo Bigi , Michele Ceriotti

The human visual system is able to recognize objects despite transformations that can drastically alter their appearance. To this end, much effort has been devoted to the invariance properties of recognition systems. Invariance can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-08 Weiguang Ding , Graham W. Taylor