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Deep learning was recently successfully used in deriving symmetry transformations that preserve important physics quantities. Being completely agnostic, these techniques postpone the identification of the discovered symmetries to a later…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-15 Roy T. Forestano , Konstantin T. Matchev , Katia Matcheva , Alexander Roman , Eyup B. Unlu , Sarunas Verner

We present a PDE-based framework that generalizes Group equivariant Convolutional Neural Networks (G-CNNs). In this framework, a network layer is seen as a set of PDE-solvers where geometrically meaningful PDE-coefficients become the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Bart Smets , Jim Portegies , Erik Bekkers , Remco Duits

Our world is full of physics-driven data where effective mappings between data manifolds are desired. There is an increasing demand for understanding combined model-based and data-driven methods. We propose a nonlinear, learned singular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Yoeri E. Boink , Christoph Brune

Rotation-invariance is a desired property of machine-learning models for medical image analysis and in particular for computational pathology applications. We propose a framework to encode the geometric structure of the special Euclidean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Maxime W. Lafarge , Erik J. Bekkers , Josien P. W. Pluim , Remco Duits , Mitko Veta

We present a symmetry-based framework for equilibrium statistical mechanics that formulates a single Lie group combining conventional spacetime symmetries with a recently identified phase-space gauge-shifting invariance [Muller et al.,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-02 Hai Pham-Van

Regular Lie groups are infinite dimensional Lie groups with the property that smooth curves in the Lie algebra integrate to smooth curves in the group in a smooth way (an `evolution operator' exists). Up to now all known smooth Lie groups…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andreas Kriegl , Peter W. Michor

The Symmetric group $S_{n}$ manifests itself in large classes of quantum systems as the invariance of certain characteristics of a quantum state with respect to permuting the qubits. The subgroups of $S_{n}$ arise, among many other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Sreetama Das , Filippo Caruso

Optimizing and certifying the positivity of polynomials are fundamental primitives across mathematics and engineering applications, from dynamical systems to operations research. However, solving these problems in practice requires large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Hannah Lawrence , Mitchell Tong Harris

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

We study how group symmetry helps improve data efficiency and generalization for end-to-end differentiable planning algorithms when symmetry appears in decision-making tasks. Motivated by equivariant convolution networks, we treat the path…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Linfeng Zhao , Xupeng Zhu , Lingzhi Kong , Robin Walters , Lawson L. S. Wong

We propose Lie group embedded dynamical neural networks (LieEDNN) and the corresponding learning algorithms based on gradient descent and metric projection on smooth manifold, where we treat Lie group as an intrinsic representation for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Tianwei Wang , Bryan Chen , Qian Zuo , Qiyue Xia , Xin Li , Wei Pang

Equivariant neural networks, whose hidden features transform according to representations of a group G acting on the data, exhibit training efficiency and an improved generalisation performance. In this work, we extend group invariant and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Robin Winter , Marco Bertolini , Tuan Le , Frank Noé , Djork-Arné Clevert

Recently, Hamiltonian neural networks (HNN) have been introduced to incorporate prior physical knowledge when learning the dynamical equations of Hamiltonian systems. Hereby, the symplectic system structure is preserved despite the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Eva Dierkes , Christian Offen , Sina Ober-Blöbaum , Kathrin Flaßkamp

In this paper, we develop a manifestly geometric framework for equivariant manifold neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs) and use it to analyse their modelling capabilities for symmetric data. First, we consider the action of a Lie…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Emma Andersdotter , Daniel Persson , Fredrik Ohlsson

We call a unital locally convex algebra $A$ a continuous inverse algebra if its unit group $A^\times$ is open and inversion is a continuous map. For any smooth action of a, possibly infinite-dimensional, connected Lie group $G$ on a…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2008-02-22 Karl-Hermann Neeb

Steerable convolutional neural networks (SCNNs) enhance task performance by modelling geometric symmetries through equivariance constraints on weights. Yet, unknown or varying symmetries can lead to overconstrained weights and decreased…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Lars Veefkind , Gabriele Cesa

Automorphic Lie Algebras arise in the context of reduction groups introduced in the late 1970s in the field of integrable systems. They are subalgebras of Lie algebras over a ring of rational functions, defined by invariance under the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-20 Vincent Knibbeler

Group Convolutional Neural Networks (G-CNNs) constrain learned features to respect the symmetries in the selected group, and lead to better generalization when these symmetries appear in the data. If this is not the case, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 David W. Romero , Suhas Lohit

In this work we obtain the general form of polynomial mappings that commute with a linear action of a relative symmetry group. The aim is to give results for relative equivariant polynomials that correspond to the results for relative…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-11-25 Patricia Hernandes Baptistelli , Miriam Manoel

Equivariant neural networks are neural networks with symmetry. Motivated by the theory of group representations, we decompose the layers of an equivariant neural network into simple representations. The nonlinear activation functions lead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Joel Gibson , Daniel Tubbenhauer , Geordie Williamson