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Recent work has shown the utility of developing machine learning models that respect the structure and symmetries of eigenvectors. These works promote sign invariance, since for any eigenvector v the negation -v is also an eigenvector.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Derek Lim , Joshua Robinson , Stefanie Jegelka , Haggai Maron

Even though convolutional neural networks (CNN) has achieved near-human performance in various computer vision tasks, its ability to tolerate scale variations is limited. The popular practise is making the model bigger first, and then train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Yichong Xu , Tianjun Xiao , Jiaxing Zhang , Kuiyuan Yang , Zheng Zhang

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

Convolutional networks are successful, but they have recently been outperformed by new neural networks that are equivariant under rotations and translations. These new networks work better because they do not struggle with learning each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Philip Müller , Vladimir Golkov , Valentina Tomassini , Daniel Cremers

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

Convolutional neural networks owe much of their success to hard-coding translation equivariance. Quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs) have been proposed as near-term quantum analogues, but the relevant notion of translation depends…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Dmitry Chirkov , Igor Lobanov

The ability to handle large scale variations is crucial for many real world visual tasks. A straightforward approach for handling scale in a deep network is to process an image at several scales simultaneously in a set of scale channels.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Ylva Jansson , Tony Lindeberg

The ability to handle large scale variations is crucial for many real world visual tasks. A straightforward approach for handling scale in a deep network is to process an image at several scales simultaneously in a set of scale channels.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Ylva Jansson , Tony Lindeberg

For many years, it has been shown how much exploiting equivariances can be beneficial when solving image analysis tasks. For example, the superiority of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) compared to dense networks mainly comes from an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Valentin Delchevalerie , Alexandre Mayer , Adrien Bibal , Benoît Frénay

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

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

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

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

In many machine learning tasks it is desirable that a model's prediction transforms in an equivariant way under transformations of its input. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) implement translational equivariance by construction; for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Maurice Weiler , Fred A. Hamprecht , Martin Storath

Local gauge symmetry underlies fundamental interactions and strongly correlated quantum matter, yet existing machine-learning approaches lack a general, principled framework for learning under site-dependent symmetries, particularly for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-23 Ali Rayat , Yaohang Li , Gia-Wei Chern

Recent research has shown that incorporating equivariance into neural network architectures is very helpful, and there have been some works investigating the equivariance of networks under group actions. However, as digital images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Zhengyang Shen , Lingshen He , Zhouchen Lin , Jinwen Ma

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

We present an empirical study in the geometric task of learning interatomic potentials, which shows equivariance matters even more at larger scales; we show a clear power-law scaling behaviour with respect to data, parameters and compute…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Khang Ngo , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

Equivariance guarantees that a model's predictions capture key symmetries in data. When an image is translated or rotated, an equivariant model's representation of that image will translate or rotate accordingly. The success of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Nate Gruver , Marc Finzi , Micah Goldblum , Andrew Gordon Wilson

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