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This paper introduces a new Convolutional Neural Network (ConvNet) architecture inspired by a class of partial differential equations (PDEs) called quasi-linear hyperbolic systems. With comparable performance on the image classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yao Liu , Hang Shao , Bing Bai

Equivariance is a nice property to have as it produces much more parameter efficient neural architectures and preserves the structure of the input through the feature mapping. Even though some combinations of transformations might never…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 David W. Romero , Mark Hoogendoorn

In this paper, we introduce group convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) equivariant to color variation. GCNNs have been designed for a variety of geometric transformations from 2D and 3D rotation groups, to semi-groups such as scale.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yulong Yang , Felix O'Mahony , Christine Allen-Blanchette

Many successful deep learning architectures are equivariant to certain transformations in order to conserve parameters and improve generalization: most famously, convolution layers are equivariant to shifts of the input. This approach only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Allan Zhou , Tom Knowles , Chelsea Finn

Although group convolutional networks are able to learn powerful representations based on symmetry patterns, they lack explicit means to learn meaningful relationships among them (e.g., relative positions and poses). In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 David W. Romero , Erik J. Bekkers , Jakub M. Tomczak , Mark Hoogendoorn

Convolution is conventionally defined as a linear operation on functions of one or more variables which commutes with shifts. Group convolution generalizes the concept to linear operations on functions of group elements representing more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Xinhua Zhang , Lance R. Williams

The set of functions parameterized by a linear fully-connected neural network is a determinantal variety. We investigate the subvariety of functions that are equivariant or invariant under the action of a permutation group. Examples of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Kathlén Kohn , Anna-Laura Sattelberger , Vahid Shahverdi

Invariant and equivariant networks are useful in learning data with symmetry, including images, sets, point clouds, and graphs. In this paper, we consider invariant and equivariant networks for symmetries of finite groups. Invariant and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Akiyoshi Sannai , Makoto Kawano , Wataru Kumagai

Extending the translation equivariance property of convolutional neural networks to larger symmetry groups has been shown to reduce sample complexity and enable more discriminative feature learning. Further, exploiting additional symmetries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Lisa Weijler , Pedro Hermosilla

We present the group equivariant conditional neural process (EquivCNP), a meta-learning method with permutation invariance in a data set as in conventional conditional neural processes (CNPs), and it also has transformation equivariance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Makoto Kawano , Wataru Kumagai , Akiyoshi Sannai , Yusuke Iwasawa , Yutaka Matsuo

Convolutional neural networks often dominate fully-connected counterparts in generalization performance, especially on image classification tasks. This is often explained in terms of 'better inductive bias'. However, this has not been made…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Zhiyuan Li , Yi Zhang , Sanjeev Arora

Physics-Informed Neural Operators provide efficient, high-fidelity simulations for systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). However, most existing studies focus only on multi-scale, multi-physics systems within a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Weidong Wu , Yong Zhang , Lili Hao , Yang Chen , Xiaoyan Sun , Dunwei Gong

CoVariance Neural Networks (VNNs) perform convolutions on the graph determined by the covariance matrix of the data, which enables expressive and stable covariance-based learning. However, covariance matrices are typically dense, fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Andrea Cavallo , Samuel Rey , Antonio G. Marques , Elvin Isufi

Equivariant networks are specifically designed to ensure consistent behavior with respect to a set of input transformations, leading to higher sample efficiency and more accurate and robust predictions. However, redesigning each component…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Arnab Kumar Mondal , Siba Smarak Panigrahi , Sékou-Oumar Kaba , Sai Rajeswar , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

The translational equivariant nature of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is a reason for its great success in computer vision. However, networks do not enjoy more general equivariance properties such as rotation or scaling, ultimately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Zikai Sun , Thierry Blu

Rotation equivariance is a desirable property in many practical applications such as motion forecasting and 3D perception, where it can offer benefits like sample efficiency, better generalization, and robustness to input perturbations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Serge Assaad , Carlton Downey , Rami Al-Rfou , Nigamaa Nayakanti , Ben Sapp

Equivariance is a powerful inductive bias in neural networks, improving generalisation and physical consistency. Recently, however, non-equivariant models have regained attention, due to their better runtime performance and imperfect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Torben Berndt , Jan Stühmer

Equivariant quantum neural networks (QNNs) are promising variational models that exploit symmetries to improve machine learning capabilities. Despite theoretical developments in equivariant QNNs, their implementation on near-term quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Koki Chinzei , Quoc Hoan Tran , Yasuhiro Endo , Hirotaka Oshima

Convolutional neural networks have been extremely successful in the image recognition domain because they ensure equivariance to translations. There have been many recent attempts to generalize this framework to other domains, including…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-13 Risi Kondor , Shubhendu Trivedi

We analyze the role of rotational equivariance in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) applied to spherical images. We compare the performance of the group equivariant networks known as S2CNNs and standard non-equivariant CNNs trained with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Jan E. Gerken , Oscar Carlsson , Hampus Linander , Fredrik Ohlsson , Christoffer Petersson , Daniel Persson