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3D Convolutional Neural Networks are sensitive to transformations applied to their input. This is a problem because a voxelized version of a 3D object, and its rotated clone, will look unrelated to each other after passing through to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Daniel Worrall , Gabriel Brostow

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

We study the family of functions that are represented by a linear convolutional neural network (LCN). These functions form a semi-algebraic subset of the set of linear maps from input space to output space. In contrast, the families of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Kathlén Kohn , Thomas Merkh , Guido Montúfar , Matthew Trager

Many problems in computer vision and machine learning can be cast as learning on hypergraphs that represent higher-order relations. Recent approaches for hypergraph learning extend graph neural networks based on message passing, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Jinwoo Kim , Saeyoon Oh , Sungjun Cho , Seunghoon Hong

Permutation-invariant, -equivariant, and -covariant functions and anti-symmetric functions are important in quantum physics, computer vision, and other disciplines. Applications often require most or all of the following properties: (a) a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Marcus Hutter

Newtonian mechanics has the concept of an absolute inertial rest frame. Special relativity eliminates the absolute rest frame but continues to require the absolute inertial frame. General relativity solves this for gravity by requiring…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen G. Low

Precise reconstruction of top quark properties is a challenging task at the Large Hadron Collider due to combinatorial backgrounds and missing information. We introduce a physics-informed neural network architecture called the Covariant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-05 Shikai Qiu , Shuo Han , Xiangyang Ju , Benjamin Nachman , Haichen Wang

Invariance and equivariance to the rotation group have been widely discussed in the 3D deep learning community for pointclouds. Yet most proposed methods either use complex mathematical tools that may limit their accessibility, or are tied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Congyue Deng , Or Litany , Yueqi Duan , Adrien Poulenard , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Leonidas Guibas

A group theoretical description of basic discrete symmetries (space inversion P, time reversal T and charge conjugation C) is given. Discrete subgroups of orthogonal groups of multidimensional spaces over the fields of real and complex…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Varlamov

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become a core paradigm for learning on relational data. In materials science, equivariant GNNs (EGNNs) have emerged as a compelling backbone for crystalline-structure prediction, owing to their ability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Yang Cao , Zhao Song , Jiahao Zhang , Jiale Zhao

Utilizing physics-informed neural networks (PINN) to solve partial differential equations (PDEs) becomes a hot issue and also shows its great powers, but still suffers from the dilemmas of limited predicted accuracy in the sampling domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zhi-Yong Zhang , Jie-Ying Li , Lei-Lei Guo

In this work, we formally prove that, under certain conditions, if a neural network is invariant to a finite group then its weights recover the Fourier transform on that group. This provides a mathematical explanation for the emergence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Giovanni Luca Marchetti , Christopher Hillar , Danica Kragic , Sophia Sanborn

Analyzing multivariate time series data is important for many applications such as automated control, fault diagnosis and anomaly detection. One of the key challenges is to learn latent features automatically from dynamically changing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Subin Yi , Janghoon Ju , Man-Ki Yoon , Jaesik Choi

Analyzing scalar and vector fields on the sphere, such as temperature or wind speed and direction on Earth, is a difficult task. Models should respect both the rotational symmetries of the sphere and the inherent symmetries of the vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Francesco Ballerin , Nello Blaser , Erlend Grong

A manifestly Lorentz-covariant formulation of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) is given in terms of finite-dimensional representations of the Lorentz group. The formulation accounts for discrete symmetries, such as parity and time-reversal, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-08 Francesco Cianfrani

The translation equivariance of convolutions can make convolutional neural networks translation equivariant or invariant. Equivariance to other transformations (e.g. rotations, affine transformations, scalings) may also be desirable as soon…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-05 Mateus Sangalli , Samy Blusseau , Santiago Velasco-Forero , Jesus Angulo

Weight sharing in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) ensures that their feature maps will be translation-equivariant. However, although conventional convolutions are equivariant to translation, they are not equivariant to other isometries…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 Anna M. M. Scaife , Fiona Porter

We devise a new type of feedforward neural network. It is equivariant with respect to the unitary group $U(n)$. The input and output can be vectors in $\mathbb{C}^n$ with arbitrary dimension $n$. No convolution layer is required in our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Pui-Wai Ma , T. -H. Hubert Chan

Recent advances in deep learning and Transformers have driven major breakthroughs in robotics by employing techniques such as imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and LLM-based multimodal perception and decision-making. However,…

Recent developments in quantum gravity have shown the Lorentzian treatment to be a fruitful approach towards the emergence of macroscopic spacetimes. In this paper, we discuss another related aspect of the Lorentzian treatment: we argue…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Dennis Obster , Naoki Sasakura