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This paper presents an equivariant filter (EqF) transformation approach for visual--inertial navigation. By establishing analytical links between EqFs with different symmetries, the proposed approach enables systematic consistency design…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Chungeng Tian , Fenghua He , Ning Hao

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have massively impacted visual recognition in 2D images, and are now ubiquitous in state-of-the-art approaches. CNNs do not easily extend, however, to data that are not represented by regular grids, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Nitika Verma , Edmond Boyer , Jakob Verbeek

CoVariance Neural Networks (VNNs) perform convolutions on the graph determined by the covariance matrix of the data, which enables expressive and stable covariance-based learning. However, covariance matrices are typically dense, fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Andrea Cavallo , Samuel Rey , Antonio G. Marques , Elvin Isufi

Many theoretical results in deep learning can be traced to symmetry or equivariance of neural networks under parameter transformations. However, existing analyses are typically problem-specific and focus on first-order consequences such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Yongyi Yang , Liu Ziyin

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

Equivariant neural networks are designed to respect symmetries through their architecture, boosting generalization and sample efficiency when those symmetries are present in the data distribution. Real-world data, however, often departs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Andrei Manolache , Luiz F. O. Chamon , Mathias Niepert

Function plays an important role in mathematics and many science branches. As the fast development of computer technology, more and more study on computational function analysis, e.g., Fast Fourier Transform, Wavelet Transform, Curve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Changlin Wan , Zhongzhi Shi

Among many unsolved puzzles in theories of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), there are three most fundamental challenges that highly demand solutions, namely, expressibility, optimisability, and generalisability. Although there have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Hao Shen

In this work, we formally prove that, under certain conditions, if a neural network is invariant to a finite group then its weights recover the Fourier transform on that group. This provides a mathematical explanation for the emergence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Giovanni Luca Marchetti , Christopher Hillar , Danica Kragic , Sophia Sanborn

Entanglement is a physical phenomenon, which has fueled recent successes of quantum algorithms. Although quantum neural networks (QNNs) have shown promising results in solving simple machine learning tasks recently, for the time being, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Nanqing Dong , Michael Kampffmeyer , Irina Voiculescu , Eric Xing

This paper introduces a new model to learn graph neural networks equivariant to rotations, translations, reflections and permutations called E(n)-Equivariant Graph Neural Networks (EGNNs). In contrast with existing methods, our work does…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Victor Garcia Satorras , Emiel Hoogeboom , Max Welling

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

In recent years, deep learning techniques have shown great success in various tasks related to inverse problems, where a target quantity of interest can only be observed through indirect measurements by a forward operator. Common approaches…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Matthias Beckmann , Nick Heilenkötter

The difficult problem of relating the static structure of glassy liquids and their dynamics is a good target for Machine Learning, an approach which excels at finding complex patterns hidden in data. Indeed, this approach is currently a hot…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-29 Francesco Saverio Pezzicoli , Guillaume Charpiat , François P. Landes

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are commonly described as being permutation equivariant with respect to node relabeling in the graph. This symmetry of GNNs is often compared to the translation equivariance of Euclidean convolution neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-20 Ningyuan Huang , Ron Levie , Soledad Villar

Equivariant neural networks provide a principled framework for incorporating symmetry into learning architectures and have been extensively analyzed through the lens of their separation power, that is, the ability to distinguish inputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Marco Pacini , Gabriele Santin , Bruno Lepri , Shubhendu Trivedi

In Reinforcement Learning (RL), Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs) have been successfully applied as function approximators in Deep Q-Learning algorithms, which seek to learn action-value functions and policies in various environments.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Arnab Kumar Mondal , Pratheeksha Nair , Kaleem Siddiqi

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are inherently equivariant to translation. Efforts to embed other forms of equivariance have concentrated solely on rotation. We expand the notion of equivariance in CNNs through the Polar Transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Carlos Esteves , Christine Allen-Blanchette , Xiaowei Zhou , Kostas Daniilidis

In this work we propose a new neural network architecture that efficiently implements and learns general purpose set-equivariant functions. Such a function f maps a set of entities x = {x1, . . . , xn} from one domain to a set of same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Roland Vollgraf

Many datasets in scientific and engineering applications are comprised of objects which have specific geometric structure. A common example is data which inhabits a representation of the group SO$(3)$ of 3D rotations: scalars, vectors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Chase Shimmin , Zhelun Li , Ema Smith