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Equivariant Ehrhart theory generalizes the study of lattice point enumeration to also account for the symmetries of a polytope under a linear group action. We present a catalogue of techniques with applications in this field, including…

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We present a neural network wavefunction framework for solving non-Abelian lattice gauge theories in a continuous group representation. Using a combination of $SU(2)$ equivariant neural networks alongside an $SU(2)$ invariant,…

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Equivariant machine learning methods have shown wide success at 3D learning applications in recent years. These models explicitly build in the reflection, translation and rotation symmetries of Euclidean space and have facilitated large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Joshua A. Rackers , Pranav Rao

Equivariances provide useful inductive biases in neural network modeling, with the translation equivariance of convolutional neural networks being a canonical example. Equivariances can be embedded in architectures through weight-sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Tycho F. A. van der Ouderaa , David W. Romero , Mark van der Wilk

In this paper, we develop a theory about the relationship between invariant and equivariant maps with regard to a group $G$. We then leverage this theory in the context of deep neural networks with group symmetries in order to obtain novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Akiyoshi Sannai , Yuuki Takai , Matthieu Cordonnier

Equivariant neural networks have shown improved performance, expressiveness and sample complexity on symmetrical domains. But for some specific symmetries, representations, and choice of coordinates, the most common point-wise activations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Marco Pacini , Xiaowen Dong , Bruno Lepri , Gabriele Santin

We demonstrate that gauge equivariant diffusion models can accurately model the physics of non-Abelian lattice gauge theory using the Metropolis-adjusted annealed Langevin algorithm (MAALA), as exemplified by computations in two-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-01-28 Gert Aarts , Diaa E. Habibi , Andreas Ipp , David I. Müller , Thomas R. Ranner , Lingxiao Wang , Wei Wang , Qianteng Zhu

Incorporating symmetry as an inductive bias into neural network architecture has led to improvements in generalization, data efficiency, and physical consistency in dynamics modeling. Methods such as CNNs or equivariant neural networks use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Rui Wang , Robin Walters , Rose Yu

Machine-learning models in chemistry - when based on descriptors of atoms embedded within molecules - face essential challenges in transferring the quality of predictions of local electronic structures and their associated properties across…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Frederik Ø. Kjeldal , Janus J. Eriksen

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), especially message-passing neural networks (MPNNs), have emerged as powerful architectures for learning on graphs in diverse applications. However, MPNNs face challenges when modeling non-local interactions in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-31 Ilyes Batatia , Lars L. Schaaf , Huajie Chen , Gábor Csányi , Christoph Ortner , Felix A. Faber

Symmetries and equivariance are fundamental to the generalization of neural networks on domains such as images, graphs, and point clouds. Existing work has primarily focused on a small number of groups, such as the translation, rotation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Marc Finzi , Max Welling , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Geometric quantum machine learning uses the symmetries inherent in data to design tailored machine learning tasks with reduced search space dimension. The field has been well-studied recently in an effort to avoid barren plateau issues…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Zachary P. Bradshaw , Ethan N. Evans , Matthew Cook , Margarite L. LaBorde

This study explores the use of equivariant quantum neural networks (QNN) for generating molecular force fields, focusing on the rMD17 dataset. We consider a QNN architecture based on previous research and point out shortcomings in the…

A challenging problem in many modern machine learning tasks is to process weight-space features, i.e., to transform or extract information from the weights and gradients of a neural network. Recent works have developed promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Allan Zhou , Chelsea Finn , James Harrison

From early image processing to modern computational imaging, successful models and algorithms have relied on a fundamental property of natural signals: symmetry. Here symmetry refers to the invariance property of signal sets to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Dongdong Chen , Mike Davies , Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Ferdia Sherry , Julián Tachella

Convolutional neural networks have been highly successful in image-based learning tasks due to their translation equivariance property. Recent work has generalized the traditional convolutional layer of a convolutional neural network to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Monami Banerjee , Rudrasis Chakraborty , Jose Bouza , Baba C. Vemuri

Neural networks that are equivariant to rotations, translations, reflections, and permutations on n-dimensional geometric space have shown promise in physical modeling for tasks such as accurately but inexpensively modeling complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Yuanqing Wang , John D. Chodera

We present a general theory of Group equivariant Convolutional Neural Networks (G-CNNs) on homogeneous spaces such as Euclidean space and the sphere. Feature maps in these networks represent fields on a homogeneous base space, and layers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Taco Cohen , Mario Geiger , Maurice Weiler

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the state-of-the-art in supervised learning vision tasks. Their convolutional filters are of paramount importance for they allow to learn patterns while disregarding their locations in input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Jean-Charles Vialatte , Vincent Gripon , Grégoire Mercier

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