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Features that are equivariant to a larger group of symmetries have been shown to be more discriminative and powerful in recent studies. However, higher-order equivariant features often come with an exponentially-growing computational cost.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Haiwei Chen , Shichen Liu , Weikai Chen , Hao Li

Representations learnt through deep neural networks tend to be highly informative, but opaque in terms of what information they learn to encode. We introduce an approach to probabilistic modelling that learns to represent data with two…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-21 Ilya Feige

Gradient-based attention modeling has been used widely as a way to visualize and understand convolutional neural networks. However, exploiting these visual explanations during the training of generative adversarial networks (GANs) is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Runze Li , Tomaso Fontanini , Luca Donati , Andrea Prati , Bir Bhanu

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

Exemplar learning of visual similarities in an unsupervised manner is a problem of paramount importance to Computer Vision. In this context, however, the recent breakthrough in deep learning could not yet unfold its full potential. With…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Artsiom Sanakoyeu , Miguel A. Bautista , Björn Ommer

We introduce Steerable Transformers, an extension of the Vision Transformer mechanism that maintains equivariance to the special Euclidean group $\mathrm{SE}(d)$. We propose an equivariant attention mechanism that operates on features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Soumyabrata Kundu , Risi Kondor

The attention mechanisim is appealing for neural machine translation, since it is able to dynam- ically encode a source sentence by generating a alignment between a target word and source words. Unfortunately, it has been proved to be worse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Lemao Liu , Masao Utiyama , Andrew Finch , Eiichiro Sumita

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have shown the powerful ability in text structure representation and effectively facilitate the task of text classification. However, challenges still exist in adapting GCN on learning discriminative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Xueya Zhang , Tong Zhang , Wenting Zhao , Zhen Cui , Jian Yang

Pose transfer refers to the probabilistic image generation of a person with a previously unseen novel pose from another image of that person having a different pose. Due to potential academic and commercial applications, this problem is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Prasun Roy , Saumik Bhattacharya , Subhankar Ghosh , Umapada Pal

Vision transformers using self-attention or its proposed alternatives have demonstrated promising results in many image related tasks. However, the underpinning inductive bias of attention is not well understood. To address this issue, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Arda Sahiner , Tolga Ergen , Batu Ozturkler , John Pauly , Morteza Mardani , Mert Pilanci

Recently, Transformers have shown promising performance in various vision tasks. To reduce the quadratic computation complexity caused by each query attending to all keys/values, various methods have constrained the range of attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Kai Liu , Tianyi Wu , Cong Liu , Guodong Guo

Exploiting symmetry in dynamical systems is a powerful way to improve the generalization of deep learning. The model learns to be invariant to transformation and hence is more robust to distribution shift. Data augmentation and equivariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Rui Wang , Robin Walters , Rose Yu

While widespread, Transformers lack inductive biases for geometric symmetries common in science and computer vision. Existing equivariant methods often sacrifice the efficiency and flexibility that make Transformers so effective through…

We propose a novel technique to enhance Knowledge Graph Reasoning by combining Graph Convolution Neural Network (GCN) with the Attention Mechanism. This approach utilizes the Attention Mechanism to examine the relationships between entities…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Meera Gupta , Ravi Khanna , Divya Choudhary , Nandini Rao

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) frequently "cheat" by exploiting superficial correlations, raising concerns about whether they make predictions for the right reasons. Inspired by cognitive science, which highlights the role of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Ryan L. Yang , Dipkamal Bhusal , Nidhi Rastogi

Ensemble learning is a general technique to improve accuracy in machine learning. However, the heavy computation of a ConvNets ensemble limits its usage in deep learning. In this paper, we present Group Ensemble Network (GENet), an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Hao Chen , Abhinav Shrivastava

Clustering is a class of unsupervised learning methods that has been extensively applied and studied in computer vision. Little work has been done to adapt it to the end-to-end training of visual features on large scale datasets. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Mathilde Caron , Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin , Matthijs Douze

We aim to better understand attention over nodes in graph neural networks (GNNs) and identify factors influencing its effectiveness. We particularly focus on the ability of attention GNNs to generalize to larger, more complex or noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Boris Knyazev , Graham W. Taylor , Mohamed R. Amer

Augmentation-based self-supervised learning methods have shown remarkable success in self-supervised visual representation learning, excelling in learning invariant features but often neglecting equivariant ones. This limitation reduces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Qin Wang , Kai Krajsek , Hanno Scharr

Communities in social networks evolve over time as people enter and leave the network and their activity behaviors shift. The task of predicting structural changes in communities over time is known as community evolution prediction.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Matt Revelle , Carlotta Domeniconi , Ben Gelman