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Equivariant neural networks have proven to be effective for tasks with known underlying symmetries. However, optimizing equivariant networks can be tricky and best training practices are less established than for standard networks. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 YuQing Xie , Tess Smidt

The translational equivariant nature of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is a reason for its great success in computer vision. However, networks do not enjoy more general equivariance properties such as rotation or scaling, ultimately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Zikai Sun , Thierry Blu

Steerable networks, which process data with intrinsic symmetries, often use Fourier-based nonlinearities that require sampling from the entire group, leading to a need for discretization in continuous groups. As the number of samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Berfin Inal , Gabriele Cesa

Lie groups of automorphisms of cotangent bundles of Lie groups are completely characterized and interesting results are obtained. We give prominence to the fact that the Lie groups of automorphisms of cotangent bundles of Lie groups are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Bakary Manga

An effective way to model the complex real world is to view the world as a composition of basic components of objects and transformations. Although humans through development understand the compositionality of the real world, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 T. Takada , W. Shimaya , Y. Ohmura , Y. Kuniyoshi

In this paper we describe how one can obtain Lie group structures on the group of (vertical) bundle automorphisms for a locally convex principal bundle P over the compact manifold M. This is done by first considering Lie group structures on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-11-28 Christoph Wockel

We investigate the relation between end-to-end equivariance and layerwise equivariance in deep neural networks. We prove the following: For a network whose end-to-end function is equivariant with respect to group actions on the input and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Vahid Shahverdi , Giovanni Luca Marchetti , Georg Bökman , Kathlén Kohn

We propose, implement, and compare with competitors a new architecture of equivariant neural networks based on geometric (Clifford) algebras: Generalized Lipschitz Group Equivariant Neural Networks (GLGENN). These networks are equivariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Ekaterina Filimoshina , Dmitry Shirokov

Physics-informed neural networks have emerged as a prominent new method for solving differential equations. While conceptually straightforward, they often suffer training difficulties that lead to relatively large discretization errors or…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 Shivam Arora , Alex Bihlo , Francis Valiquette

Objective: This paper proposes a novel approach for automatic left ventricle (LV) quantification using convolutional neural networks (CNN). Methods: The general framework consists of one CNN for detecting the LV, and another for tissue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Ariel H. Curiale , Flavio D. Colavecchia , German Mato

In this paper, we develop a theory about the relationship between invariant and equivariant maps with regard to a group $G$. We then leverage this theory in the context of deep neural networks with group symmetries in order to obtain novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Akiyoshi Sannai , Yuuki Takai , Matthieu Cordonnier

Our goal is to find classes of convolution semigroups on Lie groups $G$ that give rise to interesting processes in symmetric spaces $G/K$. The $K$-bi-invariant convolution semigroups are a well-studied example. An appealing direction for…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-02 David Applebaum

This work extends the theory of reciprocal diagrams in graphic statics to frameworks that are invariant under finite group actions by utilizing the homology and representation theory of cellular cosheaves, recent tools from applied…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Zoe Cooperband , Miguel Lopez , Bernd Schulze

This paper is a study of the Lie groups of point symmetries admitted by a system describing a non-stationary planar flow of an ideal plastic material. For several types of forces involved in the system, the infinitesimal generators which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Vincent Lamothe

Clifford Group Equivariant Neural Networks (CGENNs) leverage Clifford algebras and multivectors as an alternative approach to incorporating group equivariance to ensure symmetry constraints in neural representations. In principle, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Riccardo Ali , Paulina Kulytė , Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde , Pietro Liò

Analyzing scalar and vector fields on the sphere, such as temperature or wind speed and direction on Earth, is a difficult task. Models should respect both the rotational symmetries of the sphere and the inherent symmetries of the vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Francesco Ballerin , Nello Blaser , Erlend Grong

The convolutional layers of standard convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are equivariant to translation. However, the convolution and fully-connected layers are not equivariant or invariant to other affine geometric transformations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Jaspreet Singh , Chandan Singh

Group Equivariant Convolution (GConv) empowers models to explore underlying symmetry in data, improving performance. However, real-world scenarios often deviate from ideal symmetric systems caused by physical permutation, characterized by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zhiqiang Wu , Yingjie Liu , Hanlin Dong , Xuan Tang , Jian Yang , Bo Jin , Mingsong Chen , Xian Wei

Let G be a Lie group, $T^*G$ its cotangent bundle with its natural Lie group structure obtained by performing a left trivialization of T^*G and endowing the resulting trivial bundle with the semi-direct product, using the coadjoint action…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-29 Andre Diatta , Bakary Manga

Incorporating prior knowledge of physics laws and structural properties of dynamical systems into the design of deep learning architectures has proven to be a powerful technique for improving their computational efficiency and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Valentin Duruisseaux , Thai Duong , Melvin Leok , Nikolay Atanasov