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This paper is a study of the Lie groups of point symmetries admitted by a system describing a non-stationary planar flow of an ideal plastic material. For several types of forces involved in the system, the infinitesimal generators which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Vincent Lamothe

In this paper we are interested in the problem of state observation of state-affine nonlinear systems. Our main contribution is to propose a globally exponentially convergent observer that requires only the necessary assumption of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Lei Wang , Romeo Ortega , Alexei Bobtsov

Over the past few years, various methods have been developed to engineeer and to exploit the dynamics of photonic quantum states as they evolve through linear optical networks. Recent theoretical works have shown that the underlying Lie…

Localized patterns are coherent structures embedded in a quiescent state and occur in both discrete and continuous media across a wide range of applications. While it is well-understood how domain covering patterns (for example stripes and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-03-19 Jason J. Bramburger , Dan J. Hill , David J. B. Lloyd

As a core problem in computer vision, the performance of object detection has improved drastically in the past few years. Despite their impressive performance, object detectors suffer from a lack of interpretability. Visualization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Ang Cao , Justin Johnson

Composite materials with different microstructural material symmetries are common in engineering applications where grain structure, alloying and particle/fiber packing are optimized via controlled manufacturing. In fact these…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-30 Ravi Patel , Cosmin Safta , Reese E. Jones

We prove for the first time that, if a linear inverse problem exhibits a group symmetry structure, gradient-based optimizers can be designed to exploit this structure for faster convergence rates. This theoretical finding demonstrates the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Junqi Tang , Guixian Xu

This paper addresses the problem of determining the symmetries of a plane or space curve defined by a rational parametrization. We provide effective methods to compute the involution and rotation symmetries for the planar case. As for space…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-13 J. G. Alcázar , C. Hermoso , G. Muntingh

Robust and flexible leader-following is a critical capability for robots to integrate into human society. While existing methods struggle to generalize to leaders of arbitrary form and often fail when the leader temporarily leaves the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Qianyi Zhang , Shijian Ma , Boyi Liu , Jianhao Jiao , Dimitrios Kanoulas

Equivariant deep learning architectures exploit symmetries in learning problems to improve the sample efficiency of neural-network-based models and their ability to generalise. However, when modelling real-world data, learning problems are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-12 Matthew Ashman , Cristiana Diaconu , Adrian Weller , Wessel Bruinsma , Richard E. Turner

Symmetry considerations are at the core of the major frameworks used to provide an effective mathematical representation of atomic configurations that is then used in machine-learning models to predict the properties associated with each…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Jigyasa Nigam , Michael Willatt , Michele Ceriotti

Incorporating geometric transformations that reflect the relative position changes between an observer and an object into computer vision and deep learning models has attracted much attention in recent years. However, the existing proposals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Nishan Khatri , Agnibh Dasgupta , Yucong Shen , Xin Zhong , Frank Y. Shih

The Arbitrary Pattern Formation problem asks for a distributed algorithm that moves a set of autonomous mobile robots to form any arbitrary pattern given as input. The robots are assumed to be autonomous, anonymous and identical. They…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Kaustav Bose , Manash Kumar Kundu , Ranendu Adhikary , Buddhadeb Sau

A geometric nonlinear observer algorithm for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) developed on the Lie group of \mathbb{SLAM}_{n}\left(3\right) is proposed. The presented novel solution estimates the vehicle's pose (i.e. attitude…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 Hashim A. Hashim

Tractably modelling distributions over manifolds has long been an important goal in the natural sciences. Recent work has focused on developing general machine learning models to learn such distributions. However, for many applications…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-31 Isay Katsman , Aaron Lou , Derek Lim , Qingxuan Jiang , Ser-Nam Lim , Christopher De Sa

Symmetry is present throughout nature and continues to play an increasingly central role in physics and machine learning. Fundamental symmetries, such as Poincar\'{e} invariance, allow physical laws discovered in laboratories on Earth to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Samuel E. Otto , Nicholas Zolman , J. Nathan Kutz , Steven L. Brunton

In the last few years, the notion of symmetry has provided a powerful and essential lens to view several optimization or sampling problems that arise in areas such as theoretical computer science, statistics, machine learning, quantum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Jonathan Leake , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

Rotation-equivariance is an essential yet challenging property in oriented object detection. While general object detectors naturally leverage robustness to spatial shifts due to the translation-equivariance of the conventional CNNs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Chanho Lee , Jinsu Son , Hyounguk Shon , Yunho Jeon , Junmo Kim

Symmetries play a central role in physics, organizing dynamics, constraining interactions, and determining the effective number of physical degrees of freedom. In parallel, modern artificial intelligence methods have demonstrated a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-03 Veronica Sanz

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