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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely applied. But as the CNNs grow, the number of arithmetic operations and memory footprint also increase. Furthermore, typical non-linear activation functions do not allow associativity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Eduardo Vera Sousa , Leandro A. F. Fernandes , Cristina Nader Vasconcelos

We present a SE(3)-equivariant graph neural network (GNN) approach that directly predicting the formation factor and effective permeability from micro-CT images. FFT solvers are established to compute both the formation factor and effective…

Histology images are inherently symmetric under rotation, where each orientation is equally as likely to appear. However, this rotational symmetry is not widely utilised as prior knowledge in modern Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs),…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Simon Graham , David Epstein , Nasir Rajpoot

Although equivariant machine learning has proven effective at many tasks, success depends heavily on the assumption that the ground truth function is symmetric over the entire domain matching the symmetry in an equivariant neural network. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Dian Wang , Xupeng Zhu , Jung Yeon Park , Mingxi Jia , Guanang Su , Robert Platt , Robin Walters

In this paper, we theoretically address three fundamental problems involving deep convolutional networks regarding invariance, depth and hierarchy. We introduce the paradigm of Transformation Networks (TN) which are a direct generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Dipan K. Pal , Marios Savvides

Invariance to spatial transformations such as translations and rotations is a desirable property and a basic design principle for classification neural networks. However, the commonly used convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are actually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Yihan Wang , Lijia Yu , Xiao-Shan Gao

Normalizing flows (NFs) provide a powerful tool to construct an expressive distribution by a sequence of trackable transformations of a base distribution and form a probabilistic model of underlying data. Rotation, as an important quantity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yulin Liu , Haoran Liu , Yingda Yin , Yang Wang , Baoquan Chen , He Wang

Developing robust and interpretable vision systems is a crucial step towards trustworthy artificial intelligence. In this regard, a promising paradigm considers embedding task-required invariant structures, e.g., geometric invariance, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Shuren Qi , Yushu Zhang , Chao Wang , Zhihua Xia , Xiaochun Cao , Jian Weng

In this paper, we propose a novel deep convolutional neural network (CNN)-based algorithm for solving ill-posed inverse problems. Regularized iterative algorithms have emerged as the standard approach to ill-posed inverse problems in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Kyong Hwan Jin , Michael T. McCann , Emmanuel Froustey , Michael Unser

Recent advances in hardware and big data acquisition have accelerated the development of deep learning techniques. For an extended period of time, increasing the model complexity has led to performance improvements for various tasks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Damian Owerko , Charilaos I. Kanatsoulis , Jennifer Bondarchuk , Donald J. Bucci , Alejandro Ribeiro

Rigid motion tracking is paramount in many medical imaging applications where movements need to be detected, corrected, or accounted for. Modern strategies rely on convolutional neural networks (CNN) and pose this problem as rigid…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Benjamin Billot , Neel Dey , Daniel Moyer , Malte Hoffmann , Esra Abaci Turk , Borjan Gagoski , Ellen Grant , Polina Golland

In computer vision, models must be able to adapt to changes in image resolution to effectively carry out tasks such as image segmentation; This is known as scale-equivariance. Recent works have made progress in developing scale-equivariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Md Ashiqur Rahman , Raymond A. Yeh

This work investigates use of equivariant neural networks as efficient and high-performance frameworks for image reconstruction and denoising in nuclear medicine. Our work aims to tackle limitations of conventional Convolutional Neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Amirreza Hashemi , Yuemeng Feng , Arman Rahmim , Hamid Sabet

Equivariance encodes known symmetries into neural networks, often enhancing generalization. However, equivariant networks cannot break symmetries: the output of an equivariant network must, by definition, have at least the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Hannah Lawrence , Vasco Portilheiro , Yan Zhang , Sékou-Oumar Kaba

Invariance and equivariance to the rotation group have been widely discussed in the 3D deep learning community for pointclouds. Yet most proposed methods either use complex mathematical tools that may limit their accessibility, or are tied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Congyue Deng , Or Litany , Yueqi Duan , Adrien Poulenard , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Leonidas Guibas

Recent work in equivariant deep learning bears strong similarities to physics. Fields over a base space are fundamental entities in both subjects, as are equivariant maps between these fields. In deep learning, however, these maps are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Erik Jenner , Maurice Weiler

We present a novel method of using explainability techniques to design physics-aware neural networks. We demonstrate our approach by developing a convolutional neural network (CNN) for solving an inverse problem for shallow subsurface…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Jodie Crocker , Krishna Kumar , Brady R. Cox

We study the problem of learning equivariant neural networks via gradient descent. The incorporation of known symmetries ("equivariance") into neural nets has empirically improved the performance of learning pipelines, in domains ranging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Bobak T. Kiani , Thien Le , Hannah Lawrence , Stefanie Jegelka , Melanie Weber

Equivariant Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated significant success across various applications. To achieve completeness -- that is, the universal approximation property over the space of equivariant functions -- the network must…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Jiacheng Cen , Anyi Li , Ning Lin , Tingyang Xu , Yu Rong , Deli Zhao , Zihe Wang , Wenbing Huang

We introduce the usage of equivariant neural networks in the search for violations of the charge-parity ($\textit{CP}$) symmetry in particle interactions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. We design neural networks that take as inputs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-27 Sergio Sánchez Cruz , Marina Kolosova , Clara Ramón Álvarez , Giovanni Petrucciani , Pietro Vischia