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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

This paper proposes a convolution structure for learning SE(3)-equivariant features from 3D point clouds. It can be viewed as an equivariant version of kernel point convolutions (KPConv), a widely used convolution form to process point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Minghan Zhu , Maani Ghaffari , William A. Clark , Huei Peng

Features that are equivariant to a larger group of symmetries have been shown to be more discriminative and powerful in recent studies. However, higher-order equivariant features often come with an exponentially-growing computational cost.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Haiwei Chen , Shichen Liu , Weikai Chen , Hao Li

Recent advances in deep learning and Transformers have driven major breakthroughs in robotics by employing techniques such as imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and LLM-based multimodal perception and decision-making. However,…

Representing and reasoning about 3D structures of macromolecules is emerging as a distinct challenge in machine learning. Here, we extend recent work on geometric vector perceptrons and apply equivariant graph neural networks to a wide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Bowen Jing , Stephan Eismann , Pratham N. Soni , Ron O. Dror

In many practical applications, 3D point cloud analysis requires rotation invariance. In this paper, we present a learnable descriptor invariant under 3D rotations and reflections, i.e., the O(3) actions, utilizing the recently introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Pavlo Melnyk , Andreas Robinson , Michael Felsberg , Mårten Wadenbäck

With the advent of group equivariant convolutions in deep networks literature, spherical CNNs with $\mathsf{SO}(3)$-equivariant layers have been developed to cope with data that are samples of signals on the sphere $S^2$. One can implicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Gianfranco Cortes , Yue Yu , Robin Chen , Melissa Armstrong , David Vaillancourt , Baba C. Vemuri

Symmetry-aware architectures are central to geometric deep learning. We present a systematic approach for constructing continuous rotationally invariant and equivariant functions using symmetric tensor networks. The proposed framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Meng Zhang , Chao Wang , Hao Zhang , Shaojun Dong , Lixin He

A wide range of techniques have been proposed in recent years for designing neural networks for 3D data that are equivariant under rotation and translation of the input. Most approaches for equivariance under the Euclidean group…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Adrien Poulenard , Maks Ovsjanikov , Leonidas J. Guibas

Incomplete point clouds captured by 3D sensors often result in the loss of both geometric and semantic information. Most existing point cloud completion methods are built on rotation-variant frameworks trained with data in canonical poses,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Zhifan Ni , Eckehard Steinbach

We present e3nn, a generalized framework for creating E(3) equivariant trainable functions, also known as Euclidean neural networks. e3nn naturally operates on geometry and geometric tensors that describe systems in 3D and transform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Mario Geiger , Tess Smidt

Spherical equivariant graph neural networks (EGNNs) provide a principled framework for learning on three-dimensional molecular and biomolecular systems, where predictions must respect the rotational symmetries inherent in physics. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sophia Tang

Neural networks that incorporate geometric relationships respecting SE(3) group transformations (e.g. rotations and translations) are increasingly important in molecular applications, such as molecular property prediction, protein structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jose Siguenza , Bharath Ramsundar

We survey the mathematical foundations of geometric deep learning, focusing on group equivariant and gauge equivariant neural networks. We develop gauge equivariant convolutional neural networks on arbitrary manifolds $\mathcal{M}$ using…

Deploying 3D graph neural networks (GNNs) that are equivariant to 3D rotations (the group SO(3)) on edge devices is challenging due to their high computational cost. This paper addresses the problem by compressing and accelerating an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Haoyu Zhou , Ping Xue , Hao Zhang , Tianfan Fu

We introduce the SE(3)-Transformer, a variant of the self-attention module for 3D point clouds and graphs, which is equivariant under continuous 3D roto-translations. Equivariance is important to ensure stable and predictable performance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Fabian B. Fuchs , Daniel E. Worrall , Volker Fischer , Max Welling

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) traditionally encode translation equivariance via the convolution operation. Generalization to other transformations has recently received attraction to encode the knowledge of the data geometry in group…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Vincent Andrearczyk , Adrien Depeursinge

A symmetry on rigid motion is one of the salient factors in efficient learning of 3D point cloud problems. Group convolution has been a representative method to extract equivariant features, but its realizations have struggled to retain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jaein Kim , Hee Bin Yoo , Dong-Sig Han , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Training a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to be robust against rotation has mostly been done with data augmentation. In this paper, another progressive vision of research direction is highlighted to encourage less dependence on data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Sungwon Hwang , Hyungtae Lim , Hyun Myung

Many datasets in scientific and engineering applications are comprised of objects which have specific geometric structure. A common example is data which inhabits a representation of the group SO$(3)$ of 3D rotations: scalars, vectors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Chase Shimmin , Zhelun Li , Ema Smith