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Symmetries and equivariance are fundamental to the generalization of neural networks on domains such as images, graphs, and point clouds. Existing work has primarily focused on a small number of groups, such as the translation, rotation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Marc Finzi , Max Welling , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Persistent Homology (PH) offers stable, multi-scale descriptors of intrinsic shape structure by capturing connected components, loops, and voids that persist across scales, providing invariants that complement purely geometric…

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A graph is a powerful concept for representation of relations between pairs of entities. Data with underlying graph structure can be found across many disciplines and there is a natural desire for understanding such data better. Deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Martin Simonovsky

Knowledge Graphs, such as Wikidata, comprise structural and textual knowledge in order to represent knowledge. For each of the two modalities dedicated approaches for graph embedding and language models learn patterns that allow for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Mojtaba Nayyeri , Zihao Wang , Mst. Mahfuja Akter , Mirza Mohtashim Alam , Md Rashad Al Hasan Rony , Jens Lehmann , Steffen Staab

In addressing the challenge of Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP), symmetry-aware deep learning models, particularly diffusion models, have been extensively studied, which treat CSP as a conditional generation task. However, ensuring…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-09 Peijia Lin , Pin Chen , Rui Jiao , Qing Mo , Jianhuan Cen , Wenbing Huang , Yang Liu , Dan Huang , Yutong Lu

When the color distribution of input images changes at inference, the performance of conventional neural network architectures drops considerably. A few researchers have begun to incorporate prior knowledge of color geometry in neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yulong Yang , Zhikun Xu , Yaojun Li , Christine Allen-Blanchette

Predicting the structure of multi-protein complexes is a grand challenge in biochemistry, with major implications for basic science and drug discovery. Computational structure prediction methods generally leverage pre-defined structural…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-26 Stephan Eismann , Raphael J. L. Townshend , Nathaniel Thomas , Milind Jagota , Bowen Jing , Ron O. Dror

Point cloud analysis (such as 3D segmentation and detection) is a challenging task, because of not only the irregular geometries of many millions of unordered points, but also the great variations caused by depth, viewpoint, occlusion, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Tuo Feng , Wenguan Wang , Xiaohan Wang , Yi Yang , Qinghua Zheng

The construction of large-scale quantum computers will require modular architectures that allow physical resources to be localized in easy-to-manage packages. In this work, we examine the impact of different graph structures on the…

Numerous point-cloud understanding techniques focus on whole entities and have succeeded in obtaining satisfactory results and limited sparsity tolerance. However, these methods are generally sensitive to incomplete point clouds that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Kaiyue Zhou , Ming Dong , Peiyuan Zhi , Shengjin Wang

The introduction of convolutional layers greatly advanced the performance of neural networks on image tasks due to innately capturing a way of encoding and learning translation-invariant operations, matching one of the underlying symmetries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Nicholas Guttenberg , Nathaniel Virgo , Olaf Witkowski , Hidetoshi Aoki , Ryota Kanai

In graph theory a partition of the vertex set of a graph is called equitable if for all pairs of cells all vertices in one cell have an equal number of neighbours in the other cell. Considering the implications for the adjacency matrix one…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Mario Thüne

We propose a new supervized learning framework for oversegmenting 3D point clouds into superpoints. We cast this problem as learning deep embeddings of the local geometry and radiometry of 3D points, such that the border of objects presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Loic Landrieu , Mohamed Boussaha

Real data is often given as a point cloud, i.e. a finite set of points with pairwise distances between them. An important problem is to detect the topological shape of data --- for example, to approximate a point cloud by a low-dimensional…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Sara Kalisnik Verovsek , Vitaliy Kurlin , Davorin Lesnik

In graph learning, maps between graphs and their subgraphs frequently arise. For instance, when coarsening or rewiring operations are present along the pipeline, one needs to keep track of the corresponding nodes between the original and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Marco Pegoraro , Riccardo Marin , Arianna Rampini , Simone Melzi , Luca Cosmo , Emanuele Rodolà

In recent years, deep models have achieved remarkable success in various vision tasks. However, their performance heavily relies on large training datasets. In contrast, humans exhibit hybrid learning, seamlessly integrating structured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Jin Yuan , Yang Zhang , Yangzhou Du , Zhongchao Shi , Xin Geng , Jianping Fan , Yong Rui

Equivariance to permutations and rigid motions is an important inductive bias for various 3D learning problems. Recently it has been shown that the equivariant Tensor Field Network architecture is universal -- it can approximate any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Ben Finkelshtein , Chaim Baskin , Haggai Maron , Nadav Dym

The ability to generate novel, diverse, and realistic 3D shapes along with associated part semantics and structure is central to many applications requiring high-quality 3D assets or large volumes of realistic training data. A key challenge…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Kaichun Mo , Paul Guerrero , Li Yi , Hao Su , Peter Wonka , Niloy Mitra , Leonidas J. Guibas

The design of convolutional neural architectures that are exactly equivariant to continuous translations is an active field of research. It promises to benefit scientific computing, notably by making existing imaging systems more physically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Jérémy Scanvic , Quentin Barthélemy , Julián Tachella

Classification and segmentation of 3D point clouds are important tasks in computer vision. Because of the irregular nature of point clouds, most of the existing methods convert point clouds into regular 3D voxel grids before they are used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Wei Zeng , Theo Gevers