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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as an efficient alternative to convolutional approaches for vision tasks such as image classification, leveraging patch-based representations instead of raw pixels. These methods construct graphs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Nikolaos Chaidos , Angeliki Dimitriou , Nikolaos Spanos , Athanasios Voulodimos , Giorgos Stamou

Learning equivariant representations is a promising way to reduce sample and model complexity and improve the generalization performance of deep neural networks. The spherical CNNs are successful examples, producing SO(3)-equivariant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Carlos Esteves , Ameesh Makadia , Kostas Daniilidis

Graph-structured data provide a comprehensive description of complex systems, encompassing not only the interactions among nodes but also the intrinsic features that characterize these nodes. These features play a fundamental role in the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-27 Roya Aliakbarisani , M. Ángeles Serrano , Marián Boguñá

The Euclidean scattering transform was introduced nearly a decade ago to improve the mathematical understanding of convolutional neural networks. Inspired by recent interest in geometric deep learning, which aims to generalize convolutional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-26 Michael Perlmutter , Feng Gao , Guy Wolf , Matthew Hirn

The real world and its geographic objects are modeled and represented in different spatial databases. Each of these databases provides only a partial description (in space and time) of the geographic objects represented. Sometimes,…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-09-15 A. Pavard , P. Bordin , A. Dony

Cyclidic nets are introduced as discrete analogs of curvature line parametrized surfaces and orthogonal coordinate systems. A 2-dimensional cyclidic net is a piecewise smooth $C^1$-surface built from surface patches of Dupin cyclides, each…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-18 Alexander I. Bobenko , Emanuel Huhnen-Venedey

We introduce TopoNets, end-to-end probabilistic deep networks for modeling semantic maps with structure reflecting the topology of large-scale environments. TopoNets build a unified deep network spanning multiple levels of abstraction and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Kaiyu Zheng , Andrzej Pronobis

We present a PDE-based framework that generalizes Group equivariant Convolutional Neural Networks (G-CNNs). In this framework, a network layer is seen as a set of PDE-solvers where geometrically meaningful PDE-coefficients become the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Bart Smets , Jim Portegies , Erik Bekkers , Remco Duits

Equivariant neural networks incorporate symmetries into their architecture, achieving higher generalization performance. However, constructing equivariant neural networks typically requires prior knowledge of data types and symmetries,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Lexiang Hu , Yikang Li , Zhouchen Lin

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) show outstanding performance in many image processing problems, such as image recognition, object detection and image segmentation. Semantic segmentation is a very challenging task that requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Fan Jia , Jun Liu , Xue-cheng Tai

This paper presents a novel framework for non-linear equivariant neural network layers on homogeneous spaces. The seminal work of Cohen et al. on equivariant $G$-CNNs on homogeneous spaces characterized the representation theory of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Elias Nyholm , Oscar Carlsson , Maurice Weiler , Daniel Persson

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

We address the problem of 3D rotation equivariance in convolutional neural networks. 3D rotations have been a challenging nuisance in 3D classification tasks requiring higher capacity and extended data augmentation in order to tackle it. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Carlos Esteves , Christine Allen-Blanchette , Ameesh Makadia , Kostas Daniilidis

Message passing neural networks have demonstrated significant efficacy in predicting molecular interactions. Introducing equivariant vectorial representations augments expressivity by capturing geometric data symmetries, thereby improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Zetian Mao , Chuan-Shen Hu , Jiawen Li , Chen Liang , Diptesh Das , Masato Sumita , Kelin Xia , Koji Tsuda

With the substantial performance of neural networks in sensitive fields increases the need for interpretable deep learning models. Major challenge is to uncover the multiscale and distributed representation hidden inside the basket mappings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Piduguralla Manaswini , Jignesh S. Bhatt

How to understand deep learning systems remains an open problem. In this paper we propose that the answer may lie in the geometrization of deep networks. Geometrization is a bridge to connect physics, geometry, deep network and quantum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Xiao Dong , Ling Zhou

Bilinear pooling of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) features [22, 23], and their compact variants [10], have been shown to be effective at fine-grained recognition, scene categorization, texture recognition, and visual question-answering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Tsung-Yu Lin , Subhransu Maji

In this work, we evaluate the use of superpixel pooling layers in deep network architectures for semantic segmentation. Superpixel pooling is a flexible and efficient replacement for other pooling strategies that incorporates spatial prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Mathijs Schuurmans , Maxim Berman , Matthew B. Blaschko

We present a novel rotation invariant architecture operating directly on point cloud data. We demonstrate how rotation invariance can be injected into a recently proposed point-based PCNN architecture, at all layers of the network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Adrien Poulenard , Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Yann Ponty , Maks Ovsjanikov

A vertex-transitive map $X$ is a map on a surface on which the automorphism group of $X$ acts transitively on the set of vertices of $X$. If the face-cycles at all the vertices in a map are of same type then the map is called a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-23 Basudeb Datta , Dipendu Maity