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We describe a symmetry breaking construction in coarse geometry which allows to obtain information about equivariant coarse homology classes by restriction to smaller groups and spaces. In the case of equivariant coarse $K$-homology theory…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Ulrich Bunke , Matthias Ludewig

Symmetry, in particular gauge symmetry, is a fundamental principle in theoretical physics. It is intimately connected to the geometry of fibre bundles. A refinement to the gauge principle, known as ``spontaneous symmetry breaking'', leads…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 ST Tsou

A symmetry of a state $\vert \psi \rangle$ is a unitary operator of which $\vert \psi \rangle$ is an eigenvector. When $\vert \psi \rangle$ is an unknown state supplied by a black-box oracle, the state's symmetries provide key physical…

The fundamental laws of physics are intrinsically geometric, dictating the evolution of systems through principles of symmetry and conservation. While modern machine learning offers powerful tools for modeling complex dynamics from data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Amine Mohamed Aboussalah , Abdessalam Ed-dib

Noether's theorem is a fundamental result in physics stating that every symmetry of the dynamics implies a conservation law. It is, however, deficient in several respects: (i) it is not applicable to dynamics wherein the system interacts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-16 Iman Marvian , Robert W. Spekkens

Automatic material discovery with desired properties is a fundamental challenge for material sciences. Considerable attention has recently been devoted to generating stable crystal structures. While existing work has shown impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Astrid Klipfel , Olivier Peltre , Najwa Harrati , Yaël Fregier , Adlane Sayede , Zied Bouraoui

Inverse problems in imaging such as denoising, deblurring, superresolution (SR) have been addressed for many decades. In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used for many inverse problem areas. Although their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Cem Tarhan , Gozde Bozdagi Akar

Recent success in training deep neural networks have prompted active investigation into the features learned on their intermediate layers. Such research is difficult because it requires making sense of non-linear computations performed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Yixuan Li , Jason Yosinski , Jeff Clune , Hod Lipson , John Hopcroft

Critical points of an invariant function may or may not be symmetric. We prove, however, that if a symmetric critical point exists, those adjacent to it are generically symmetry breaking. This mathematical mechanism is shown to carry…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yossi Arjevani

We develop a new approach to the study of spectral asymmetry. Working with the operator $\operatorname{curl}:=*\mathrm{d}$ on a connected oriented closed Riemannian 3-manifold, we construct, by means of microlocal analysis, the asymmetry…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Matteo Capoferri , Dmitri Vassiliev

Invariance under symmetry is an important problem in machine learning. Our paper looks specifically at equivariant neural networks where transformations of inputs yield homomorphic transformations of outputs. Here, steerable CNNs have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Daniel Franzen , Michael Wand

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

As an important resource to realize quantum information, quantum correlation displays different behaviors, freezing phenomenon and non-localization, which are dissimilar to the entanglement and classical correlation, respectively. In our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 Qin-Sheng Zhu , Xiao-Yu Li , Ming-Zheng Zhu , Yi-Ming Huang , Hao Wu , Shao-Yi Wu

Symmetry is present in many tasks in computer vision, where the same class of objects can appear transformed, e.g. rotated due to different camera orientations, or scaled due to perspective. The knowledge of such symmetries in data coupled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Mateus Sangalli , Samy Blusseau , Santiago Velasco-Forero , Jesús Angulo

With the rapid discovery of emergent phenomena in deep learning and large language models, understanding their cause has become an urgent need. Here, we propose a rigorous entropic-force theory for understanding the learning dynamics of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Liu Ziyin , Yizhou Xu , Isaac Chuang

We explore the role of group symmetries in binary classification tasks, presenting a novel framework that leverages the principles of Neyman-Pearson optimality. Contrary to the common intuition that larger symmetry groups lead to improved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Michael Spannowsky

Symmetry arises often when learning from high dimensional data. For example, data sets consisting of point clouds, graphs, and unordered sets appear routinely in contemporary applications, and exhibit rich underlying symmetries.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Mateo Díaz , Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Jack Kendrick , Rekha R. Thomas

Symmetry plays a fundamental role in understanding natural phenomena and mathematical structures. This work develops a comprehensive theory for studying the persistent symmetries and degree of asymmetry of finite point configurations over…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Jian Liu , Dong Chen , Guo-Wei Wei

The analysis of noisy quantum states prepared on current quantum computers is getting beyond the capabilities of classical computing. Quantum neural networks based on parametrized quantum circuits, measurements and feed-forward can process…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Petr Zapletal , Nathan A. McMahon , Michael J. Hartmann

Detection of symmetry is vital to problem solving. Most of the problems of computer vision and computer graphics and machine intelligence in general, can be reduced to symmetry detection problem. Unstructured search problem can also be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-12 Dinesh Kumar , Pankaj Srivastava