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Heavy computation is a bottleneck limiting deep-learningbased feature matching algorithms to be applied in many realtime applications. However, existing lightweight networks optimized for Euclidean data cannot address classical feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Xiaoyong Lu , Yaping Yan , Bin Kang , Songlin Du

Diffusion and flow models have become the dominant paradigm for generative modeling on Riemannian manifolds, with successful applications in protein backbone generation and DNA sequence design. However, these methods require tens to…

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We introduce SignNet and BasisNet -- new neural architectures that are invariant to two key symmetries displayed by eigenvectors: (i) sign flips, since if $v$ is an eigenvector then so is $-v$; and (ii) more general basis symmetries, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Derek Lim , Joshua Robinson , Lingxiao Zhao , Tess Smidt , Suvrit Sra , Haggai Maron , Stefanie Jegelka

Convolutional neural networks have been highly successful in image-based learning tasks due to their translation equivariance property. Recent work has generalized the traditional convolutional layer of a convolutional neural network to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Monami Banerjee , Rudrasis Chakraborty , Jose Bouza , Baba C. Vemuri

This work is about understanding the impact of invariance and equivariance on generalisation in supervised learning. We use the perspective afforded by an averaging operator to show that for any predictor that is not equivariant, there is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Hayder Elesedy

Recent foundational models for tabular data, such as TabPFN, excel at adapting to new tasks via in-context learning, but remain constrained to a fixed, pre-defined number of target dimensions-often necessitating costly ensembling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Michael Arbel , David Salinas , Frank Hutter

Graph and hypergraph representation learning has attracted increasing attention from various research fields. Despite the decent performance and fruitful applications of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), Hypergraph Neural Networks (HGNNs), and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Minhao Zou , Zhongxue Gan , Yutong Wang , Junheng Zhang , Dongyan Sui , Chun Guan , Siyang Leng

A reliable perception has to be robust against challenging environmental conditions. Therefore, recent efforts focused on the use of radar sensors in addition to camera and lidar sensors for perception applications. However, the sparsity of…

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Assumption-Based Argumentation (ABA) is a powerful structured argumentation formalism, but exact computation of extensions under stable semantics is intractable for large frameworks. We present the first Graph Neural Network (GNN) approach…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Preesha Gehlot , Anna Rapberger , Fabrizio Russo , Francesca Toni

We present a formal and constructive simulation framework for nondeterministic finite automata (NFAs) using time-shared, depth-unrolled feedforward networks (TS-FFNs), i.e., acyclic unrolled computations with shared parameters that are…

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How can we design neural networks that allow for stable universal approximation of maps between topologically interesting manifolds? The answer is with a coordinate projection. Neural networks based on topological data analysis (TDA) use…

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Neural network force fields have significantly advanced ab initio atomistic simulations across diverse fields. However, their application in the realm of magnetic materials is still in its early stage due to challenges posed by the subtle…

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Vector space models for symbolic processing that encode symbols by random vectors have been proposed in cognitive science and connectionist communities under the names Vector Symbolic Architecture (VSA), and, synonymously, Hyperdimensional…

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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

Equivariant deep learning architectures exploit symmetries in learning problems to improve the sample efficiency of neural-network-based models and their ability to generalise. However, when modelling real-world data, learning problems are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-12 Matthew Ashman , Cristiana Diaconu , Adrian Weller , Wessel Bruinsma , Richard E. Turner

Effective feature representation is key to the predictive performance of any algorithm. This paper introduces a meta-procedure, called Non-Euclidean Upgrading (NEU), which learns feature maps that are expressive enough to embed the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-11 Anastasis Kratsios , Cody Hyndman

We present Feature-Align CNN (FA-CNN), a prototype CNN architecture with intrinsic class attribution through end-to-end feature alignment. Our intuition is that the use of unordered operations such as Linear and Conv2D layers cause…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Parniyan Farvardin , David Chapman

Normalization Equivariance (NE) is a structural prior that improves robustness to distribution shift in image-to-image tasks. A function $f$ is normalization equivariant iff $f(a y + b\mathbf{1}) = a f(y) + b\mathbf{1}$ for all $a>0$ and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Youssef Saied , François Fleuret

In many real-world applications of regression, conditional probability estimation, and uncertainty quantification, exploiting symmetries rooted in physics or geometry can dramatically improve generalization and sample efficiency. While…

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