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Symmetries (transformations by group actions) are present in many datasets, and leveraging them holds considerable promise for improving predictions in machine learning. In this work, we aim to understand when and how deep networks -- with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Andrea Perin , Stephane Deny

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

Symmetry is an important feature of many constraint programs. We show that any symmetry acting on a set of symmetry breaking constraints can be used to break symmetry. Different symmetries pick out different solutions in each symmetry…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-09-18 George Katsirelos , Toby Walsh

We explore whether Neural Networks (NNs) can {\it discover} the presence of symmetries as they learn to perform a task. For this, we train hundreds of NNs on a {\it decoy task} based on well-controlled Physics templates, where no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Gabriela Barenboim , Johannes Hirn , Veronica Sanz

Equivariant neural networks are a class of neural networks designed to preserve symmetries inherent in the data. In this paper, we introduce a general method for modifying a neural network to enforce equivariance, a process we refer to as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Erkao Bao , Jingcheng Lu , Linqi Song , Nathan Hart-Hodgson , William Parson , Yanheng Zhou

We study the problem of learning equivariant neural networks via gradient descent. The incorporation of known symmetries ("equivariance") into neural nets has empirically improved the performance of learning pipelines, in domains ranging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Bobak T. Kiani , Thien Le , Hannah Lawrence , Stefanie Jegelka , Melanie Weber

Equivariance is central to graph generative models, as it ensures the model respects the permutation symmetry of graphs. However, strict equivariance can increase computational cost due to added architectural constraints, and can slow down…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Benjamin Honoré , Alba Carballo-Castro , Yiming Qin , Pascal Frossard

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

We introduce a machine-learning approach (denoted Symmetry Seeker Neural Network) capable of automatically discovering discrete symmetry groups in physical systems. This method identifies the finite set of parameter transformations that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Pablo Calvo-Barlés , Sergio G. Rodrigo , Eduardo Sánchez-Burillo , Luis Martín-Moreno

Designing equivariance as an inductive bias into deep-nets has been a prominent approach to build effective models, e.g., a convolutional neural network incorporates translation equivariance. However, incorporating these inductive biases…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Raymond A. Yeh , Yuan-Ting Hu , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Alexander G. Schwing

Many computational problems are unchanged under some symmetry operation. In classical machine learning, this can be reflected with the layer structure of the neural network. In quantum machine learning, the ansatz can be tuned to correspond…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been successful in processing data signals that are uniformly sampled in the spatial domain (e.g., images). However, most data signals do not natively exist on a grid, and in the process of being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Chiyu "Max" Jiang , Dequan Wang , Jingwei Huang , Philip Marcus , Matthias Nießner

Cognition is not passive data accumulation but the active resolution of uncertainty through symmetry breaking. This paper argues that both cognitive evolution and development unfold via sequential symmetry-breaking transitions that disrupt…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-13 Xin Li

We propose models of quantum neural networks through Clifford algebras, which are capable of capturing geometric features of systems and to produce entanglement. Due to their representations in terms of Pauli matrices, the Clifford algebras…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Marco A. S. Trindade , Vinicius N. L. Rocha , S. Floquet

Many scientific fields study data with an underlying structure that is a non-Euclidean space. Some examples include social networks in computational social sciences, sensor networks in communications, functional networks in brain imaging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Michael M. Bronstein , Joan Bruna , Yann LeCun , Arthur Szlam , Pierre Vandergheynst

Equivariant neural networks provide a principled framework for incorporating symmetry into learning architectures and have been extensively analyzed through the lens of their separation power, that is, the ability to distinguish inputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Marco Pacini , Gabriele Santin , Bruno Lepri , Shubhendu Trivedi

Group equivariance (e.g. SE(3) equivariance) is a critical physical symmetry in science, from classical and quantum physics to computational biology. It enables robust and accurate prediction under arbitrary reference transformations. In…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Weitao Du , He Zhang , Yuanqi Du , Qi Meng , Wei Chen , Bin Shao , Tie-Yan Liu

For nonlinear inverse problems that are prevalent in imaging science, symmetries in the forward model are common. When data-driven deep learning approaches are used to solve such problems, these intrinsic symmetries can cause substantial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Wenjie Zhang , Yuxiang Wan , Zhong Zhuang , Ju Sun

Modern deep learning models are highly overparameterized, resulting in large sets of parameter configurations that yield the same outputs. A significant portion of this redundancy is explained by symmetries in the parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Bo Zhao , Robin Walters , Rose Yu

Physics-informed neural networks have emerged as a prominent new method for solving differential equations. While conceptually straightforward, they often suffer training difficulties that lead to relatively large discretization errors or…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 Shivam Arora , Alex Bihlo , Francis Valiquette