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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,…

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Analyzing scalar and vector fields on the sphere, such as temperature or wind speed and direction on Earth, is a difficult task. Models should respect both the rotational symmetries of the sphere and the inherent symmetries of the vector…

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Categorical deep learning (CDL) has recently emerged as a framework that leverages category theory to unify diverse neural architectures. While geometric deep learning (GDL) is grounded in the specific context of invariants of group…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Dragan Mašulović

Operator learning has emerged as a promising paradigm for developing efficient surrogate models to solve partial differential equations (PDEs). However, existing approaches often overlook the domain knowledge inherent in the underlying PDEs…

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This paper introduces a meta-learning approach for parameterized pseudo-differential operators with deep neural networks. With the help of the nonstandard wavelet form, the pseudo-differential operators can be approximated in a compressed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Jordi Feliu-Faba , Yuwei Fan , Lexing Ying

Neural operators are a type of deep architecture that learns to solve (i.e. learns the nonlinear solution operator of) partial differential equations (PDEs). The current state of the art for these models does not provide explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Emilia Magnani , Nicholas Krämer , Runa Eschenhagen , Lorenzo Rosasco , Philipp Hennig

Operator regression provides a powerful means of constructing discretization-invariant emulators for partial-differential equations (PDEs) describing physical systems. Neural operators specifically employ deep neural networks to approximate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Katiana Kontolati , Somdatta Goswami , George Em Karniadakis , Michael D. Shields

A wide range of scientific problems, such as those described by continuous-time dynamical systems and partial differential equations (PDEs), are naturally formulated on function spaces. While function spaces are typically…

Learning and reasoning about 3D molecular structures with varying size is an emerging and important challenge in machine learning and especially in drug discovery. Equivariant Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) can simultaneously leverage the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Tuan Le , Frank Noé , Djork-Arné Clevert

We explain equivariant neural networks, a notion underlying breakthroughs in machine learning from deep convolutional neural networks for computer vision to AlphaFold 2 for protein structure prediction, without assuming knowledge of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Lek-Heng Lim , Bradley J. Nelson

In autonomous driving, deep learning enabled motion prediction is a popular topic. A critical gap in traditional motion prediction methodologies lies in ensuring equivariance under Euclidean geometric transformations and maintaining…

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Incorporating group symmetries via equivariance into neural networks has emerged as a robust approach for overcoming the efficiency and data demands of modern deep learning. While most existing approaches, such as group convolutions and…

Neural operators approximate PDE solution maps, but they need not respect the symmetries of the governing equation. In out-of-distribution (OOD) regimes, a standard neural operator must often learn coordinate alignment and physical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jiaxiao Xu , Changhong Mou , Yeyu Zhang , Fengxiang He

Physics-Informed Neural Operators provide efficient, high-fidelity simulations for systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). However, most existing studies focus only on multi-scale, multi-physics systems within a single…

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Quantum neural network architectures that have little-to-no inductive biases are known to face trainability and generalization issues. Inspired by a similar problem, recent breakthroughs in machine learning address this challenge by…

The translation equivariance of convolutions can make convolutional neural networks translation equivariant or invariant. Equivariance to other transformations (e.g. rotations, affine transformations, scalings) may also be desirable as soon…

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Inspired by constraints from physical law, equivariant machine learning restricts the learning to a hypothesis class where all the functions are equivariant with respect to some group action. Irreducible representations or invariant theory…

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Deep neural networks lack straightforward ways to incorporate domain knowledge and are notoriously considered black boxes. Prior works attempted to inject domain knowledge into architectures implicitly through data augmentation. Building on…

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We propose a novel approach for performing convolution of signals on curved surfaces and show its utility in a variety of geometric deep learning applications. Key to our construction is the notion of directional functions defined on the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Adrien Poulenard , Maks Ovsjanikov

Analyzing volumetric data with rotational invariance or equivariance is an active topic in current research. Existing deep-learning approaches utilize either group convolutional networks limited to discrete rotations or steerable…

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