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Employing equivariance in neural networks leads to greater parameter efficiency and improved generalization performance through the encoding of domain knowledge in the architecture; however, the majority of existing approaches require an a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Emmanouil Theodosis , Karim Helwani , Demba Ba

Group equivariance has emerged as a valuable inductive bias in deep learning, enhancing generalization, data efficiency, and robustness. Classically, group equivariant methods require the groups of interest to be known beforehand, which may…

The rising adoption of machine learning in high energy physics and lattice field theory necessitates the re-evaluation of common methods that are widely used in computer vision, which, when applied to problems in physics, can lead to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-10-12 Srinath Bulusu , Matteo Favoni , Andreas Ipp , David I. Müller , Daniel Schuh

Generative models have enjoyed widespread success in a variety of applications. However, they encounter inherent mathematical limitations in modeling distributions where samples are constrained by equalities, as is frequently the setting in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Katherine Keegan , Lars Ruthotto

Two fundamental problems in unsupervised learning are efficient inference for latent-variable models and robust density estimation based on large amounts of unlabeled data. Algorithms for the two tasks, such as normalizing flows and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-02 Changyou Chen , Chunyuan Li , Liqun Chen , Wenlin Wang , Yunchen Pu , Lawrence Carin

Modern machine learning increasingly leverages the insight that high-dimensional data often lie near low-dimensional, non-linear manifolds, an idea known as the manifold hypothesis. By explicitly modeling the geometric structure of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Willem Diepeveen , Deanna Needell

We present a novel framework to overcome the limitations of equivariant architectures in learning functions with group symmetries. In contrary to equivariant architectures, we use an arbitrary base model such as an MLP or a transformer and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jinwoo Kim , Tien Dat Nguyen , Ayhan Suleymanzade , Hyeokjun An , Seunghoon Hong

Lie symmetry group method is applied to study Newtonian incompressible fluid's equations flow in turbulent boundary layers. The symmetry group and its optimal system are given, and group invariant solutions associated to the symmetries are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-06 Mehdi Nadjafikhah , Seyed Reza Hejazi

A Normalizing Flow computes a bijective mapping from an arbitrary distribution to a predefined (e.g. normal) distribution. Such a flow can be used to address different tasks, e.g. anomaly detection, once such a mapping has been learned. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Bodo Rosenhahn , Christoph Hirche

This notebook tutorial demonstrates a method for sampling Boltzmann distributions of lattice field theories using a class of machine learning models known as normalizing flows. The ideas and approaches proposed in arXiv:1904.12072,…

A prominent goal of representation learning research is to achieve representations which are factorized in a useful manner with respect to the ground truth factors of variation. The fields of disentangled and equivariant representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Yue Song , T. Anderson Keller , Nicu Sebe , Max Welling

The unsupervised task of aligning two or more distributions in a shared latent space has many applications including fair representations, batch effect mitigation, and unsupervised domain adaptation. Existing flow-based approaches estimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Zeyu Zhou , Ziyu Gong , Pradeep Ravikumar , David I. Inouye

Equivariant network architectures are a well-established tool for predicting invariant or equivariant quantities. However, almost all learning problems considered in this context feature a global symmetry, i.e. each point of the underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Longde Huang , Oleksandr Balabanov , Hampus Linander , Mats Granath , Daniel Persson , Jan E. Gerken

Turbulent flows are of central importance across applications in science and engineering problems. For design and analysis, scientists and engineers use Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations using turbulence models. Turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-18 Minghan Chu , Weicheng Qian

The goal of point cloud assembly is to reconstruct a complete 3D shape by aligning multiple point cloud pieces. This work presents a novel equivariant solver for assembly tasks based on flow matching models. We first theoretically show that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ziming Wang , Nan Xue , Rebecka Jörnsten

Equivariance has been a long-standing concern in various fields ranging from computer vision to physical modeling. Most previous methods struggle with generality, simplicity, and expressiveness -- some are designed ad hoc for specific data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Shitong Luo , Jiahan Li , Jiaqi Guan , Yufeng Su , Chaoran Cheng , Jian Peng , Jianzhu Ma

Machine-learned normalizing flows can be used in the context of lattice quantum field theory to generate statistically correlated ensembles of lattice gauge fields at different action parameters. This work demonstrates how these…

We present a computational framework for efficient learning, sampling, and distribution of general Bayesian posterior distributions. The framework leverages a machine learning approach for the construction of normalizing flows for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-10-10 Yukari Yamauchi , Landon Buskirk , Pablo Giuliani , Kyle Godbey

Wavelet scattering networks, which are convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with fixed filters and weights, are promising tools for image analysis. Imposing symmetry on image statistics can improve human interpretability, aid in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Andrew K. Saydjari , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

Generative modeling seeks to uncover the underlying factors that give rise to observed data that can often be modeled as the natural symmetries that manifest themselves through invariances and equivariances to certain transformation laws.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Avishek Joey Bose , Marcus Brubaker , Ivan Kobyzev