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Graph neural networks (GNNs) are commonly described as being permutation equivariant with respect to node relabeling in the graph. This symmetry of GNNs is often compared to the translation equivariance of Euclidean convolution neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-20 Ningyuan Huang , Ron Levie , Soledad Villar

We study positive kernels on $X\times X$, where $X$ is a set equipped with an action of a group, and taking values in the set of $\mathcal A$-sesquilinear forms on a (not necessarily Hilbert) module over a $C^*$-algebra $\mathcal A$. These…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Erkka Haapasalo , Juha-Pekka Pellonpää

Graph neural networks that model 3D data, such as point clouds or atoms, are typically desired to be $SO(3)$ equivariant, i.e., equivariant to 3D rotations. Unfortunately equivariant convolutions, which are a fundamental operation for…

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We propose kernel-gradient drifting, a one-step generative modeling framework that replaces the fixed Euclidean displacement direction in drifting models with directions induced by the kernel itself. Standard drifting is attractive because…

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We introduce space-time graph neural network (ST-GNN), a novel GNN architecture, tailored to jointly process the underlying space-time topology of time-varying network data. The cornerstone of our proposed architecture is the composition of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Samar Hadou , Charilaos I. Kanatsoulis , Alejandro Ribeiro

Interest has been rising lately towards methods representing data in non-Euclidean spaces, e.g. hyperbolic or spherical, that provide specific inductive biases useful for certain real-world data properties, e.g. scale-free, hierarchical or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Gregor Bachmann , Gary Bécigneul , Octavian-Eugen Ganea

The Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has been successfully applied in many fields during recent decades; however it lacks the ability to utilize prior domain knowledge when dealing with many realistic problems. We present a framework…

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We study a family of fractional integral operators defined on Heisenberg group whose kernels satisfy Zygmund dilation. We give a characterization between a two-weight norm inequality and the necessary constraints by considering the weights…

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The orchestration of agents to optimize a collective objective without centralized control is challenging yet crucial for applications such as controlling autonomous fleets, and surveillance and reconnaissance using sensor networks.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Taos Transue , Bao Wang

Many scientific problems require to process data in the form of geometric graphs. Unlike generic graph data, geometric graphs exhibit symmetries of translations, rotations, and/or reflections. Researchers have leveraged such inductive bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Jiaqi Han , Yu Rong , Tingyang Xu , Wenbing Huang

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have been widely demonstrated their powerful ability in graph data representation and learning. Existing graph convolution layers are mainly designed based on graph signal processing and transform aspect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Ziyan Zhang , Bo Jiang , Bin Luo

The weight-sharing mechanism of convolutional kernels ensures translation-equivariance of convolution neural networks (CNNs). Recently, rotation-equivariance has been investigated. However, research on scale-equivariance or simultaneous…

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Graph kernels are historically the most widely-used technique for graph classification tasks. However, these methods suffer from limited performance because of the hand-crafted combinatorial features of graphs. In recent years, graph neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Aosong Feng , Chenyu You , Shiqiang Wang , Leandros Tassiulas

Geometric and Topological Deep Learning are rapidly growing research areas that enhance machine learning through the use of geometric and topological structures. Within this framework, Group Equivariant Non-Expansive Operators (GENEOs) have…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Francesco Conti , Patrizio Frosini , Nicola Quercioli

An important goal in visual recognition is to devise image representations that are invariant to particular transformations. In this paper, we address this goal with a new type of convolutional neural network (CNN) whose invariance is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Julien Mairal , Piotr Koniusz , Zaid Harchaoui , Cordelia Schmid

Although group convolution operators are increasingly used in deep convolutional neural networks to improve the computational efficiency and to reduce the number of parameters, most existing methods construct their group convolution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Qingbei Guo , Xiao-Jun Wu , Josef Kittler , Zhiquan Feng

We introduce and study equivariant Seiberg-Witten invariants for $4$-manifolds equipped with a smooth action of a finite group $G$. Our invariants come in two types: cohomological, valued in the group cohomology of $G$ and $K$-theoretic,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-04 David Baraglia

Applications of machine learning techniques for materials modeling typically involve functions known to be equivariant or invariant to specific symmetries. While graph neural networks (GNNs) have proven successful in such tasks, they…