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Symmetry is fundamental to understanding physical systems and can improve performance and sample efficiency in machine learning. Both pursuits require knowledge of the underlying symmetries in data, yet discovering these symmetries…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yuxuan Chen , Jung Yeon Park , Floor Eijkelboom , Jianke Yang , Jan-Willem van de Meent , Lawson L. S. Wong , Robin Walters

Deep convolutional networks (convnets) show a remarkable ability to learn disentangled representations. In recent years, the generalization of deep learning to Lie groups beyond rigid motion in $\mathbb{R}^n$ has allowed to build convnets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Christopher Ick , Vincent Lostanlen

Although provably robust to translational perturbations, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are known to suffer from extreme performance degradation when presented at test time with more general geometric transformations of inputs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Lachlan Ewen MacDonald , Sameera Ramasinghe , Simon Lucey

Symmetry is widely applied in problems such as the design of equivariant networks and the discovery of governing equations, but in complex scenarios, it is not known in advance. Most previous symmetry discovery methods are limited to linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Lexiang Hu , Yikang Li , Zhouchen Lin

Equivariance guarantees that a model's predictions capture key symmetries in data. When an image is translated or rotated, an equivariant model's representation of that image will translate or rotate accordingly. The success of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Nate Gruver , Marc Finzi , Micah Goldblum , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Convolutions encode equivariance symmetries into neural networks leading to better generalisation performance. However, symmetries provide fixed hard constraints on the functions a network can represent, need to be specified in advance, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Tycho F. A. van der Ouderaa , Alexander Immer , Mark van der Wilk

The weight-sharing mechanism of convolutional kernels ensures translation-equivariance of convolution neural networks (CNNs). Recently, rotation-equivariance has been investigated. However, research on scale-equivariance or simultaneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Wei-Dong Qiao , Yang Xu , Hui Li

Group convolutional neural networks (G-CNNs) have been shown to increase parameter efficiency and model accuracy by incorporating geometric inductive biases. In this work, we investigate the properties of representations learned by regular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 David M. Knigge , David W. Romero , Erik J. Bekkers

The principle of equivariance to symmetry transformations enables a theoretically grounded approach to neural network architecture design. Equivariant networks have shown excellent performance and data efficiency on vision and medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Taco S. Cohen , Maurice Weiler , Berkay Kicanaoglu , Max Welling

We introduce group crosscoders, an extension of crosscoders that systematically discover and analyse symmetrical features in neural networks. While neural networks often develop equivariant representations without explicit architectural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Liv Gorton

By one of the most fundamental principles in physics, a dynamical system will exhibit those motions which extremise an action functional. This leads to the formation of the Euler-Lagrange equations, which serve as a model of how the system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yana Lishkova , Paul Scherer , Steffen Ridderbusch , Mateja Jamnik , Pietro Liò , Sina Ober-Blöbaum , Christian Offen

Permutation equivariant neural networks are typically used to learn from data that lives on a graph. However, for any graph $G$ that has $n$ vertices, using the symmetric group $S_n$ as its group of symmetries does not take into account the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Edward Pearce-Crump , William J. Knottenbelt

The problem of detecting and quantifying the presence of symmetries in datasets is useful for model selection, generative modeling, and data analysis, amongst others. While existing methods for hard-coding transformations in neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Alex Gabel , Victoria Klein , Riccardo Valperga , Jeroen S. W. Lamb , Kevin Webster , Rick Quax , Efstratios Gavves

Group equivariant neural networks have been explored in the past few years and are interesting from theoretical and practical standpoints. They leverage concepts from group representation theory, non-commutative harmonic analysis and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Carlos Esteves

The quest for robust and generalizable machine learning models has driven recent interest in exploiting symmetries through equivariant neural networks. In the context of PDE solvers, recent works have shown that Lie point symmetries can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Zakhar Shumaylov , Peter Zaika , James Rowbottom , Ferdia Sherry , Melanie Weber , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

This paper introduces Lie groups in degenerate geometric (Clifford) algebras that preserve four fundamental subspaces determined by the grade involution and reversion under the adjoint and twisted adjoint representations. We prove that…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2026-01-13 E. R. Filimoshina , D. S. Shirokov

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…

We design a deep-learning algorithm for the discovery and identification of the continuous group of symmetries present in a labeled dataset. We use fully connected neural networks to model the symmetry transformations and the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-16 Roy T. Forestano , Konstantin T. Matchev , Katia Matcheva , Alexander Roman , Eyup Unlu , Sarunas Verner

State-of-the-art deep learning systems often require large amounts of data and computation. For this reason, leveraging known or unknown structure of the data is paramount. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are successful examples of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Carlos Esteves

We present the group equivariant conditional neural process (EquivCNP), a meta-learning method with permutation invariance in a data set as in conventional conditional neural processes (CNPs), and it also has transformation equivariance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Makoto Kawano , Wataru Kumagai , Akiyoshi Sannai , Yusuke Iwasawa , Yutaka Matsuo