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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) offer state of the art performance in various computer vision tasks. Many of those tasks require different subtypes of affine invariances (scale, rotational, translational) to image transformations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Facundo Manuel Quiroga , Franco Ronchetti , Laura Lanzarini , Aurelio Fernandez-Bariviera

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

Currently, increasingly deeper neural networks have been applied to improve their accuracy. In contrast, We propose a novel wider Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) architecture, motivated by the Multi-column Deep Neural Networks and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Xiaobo Huang

Self-supervised image denoising methods have garnered significant research attention in recent years, for this kind of method reduces the requirement of large training datasets. Compared to supervised methods, self-supervised methods rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hanze Liu , Jiahong Fu , Qi Xie , Deyu Meng

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

Recent works show that group equivariance as an inductive bias improves neural network performance for both classification and generation. However, designing group-equivariant neural networks is challenging when the group of interest is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Sourya Basu , Akshayaa Magesh , Harshit Yadav , Lav R. Varshney

We introduce Group equivariant Convolutional Neural Networks (G-CNNs), a natural generalization of convolutional neural networks that reduces sample complexity by exploiting symmetries. G-CNNs use G-convolutions, a new type of layer that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Taco S. Cohen , Max Welling

Equivariant imaging (EI) enables training signal reconstruction models without requiring ground truth data by leveraging signal symmetries. Deep equilibrium models (DEQs) are a powerful class of neural networks where the output is a fixed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Alexander Mehta , Ruangrawee Kitichotkul , Vivek K Goyal , Julián Tachella

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become indispensable for solving machine learning tasks in speech recognition, computer vision, and other areas that involve high-dimensional data. A CNN filters the input feature using a network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Jonathan Ephrath , Moshe Eliasof , Lars Ruthotto , Eldad Haber , Eran Treister

Invariance to spatial transformations such as translations and rotations is a desirable property and a basic design principle for classification neural networks. However, the commonly used convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are actually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Yihan Wang , Lijia Yu , Xiao-Shan Gao

Partial differential equation (PDE) models and their associated variational energy formulations are often rotationally invariant by design. This ensures that a rotation of the input results in a corresponding rotation of the output, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Tobias Alt , Karl Schrader , Joachim Weickert , Pascal Peter , Matthias Augustin

Equivariances provide useful inductive biases in neural network modeling, with the translation equivariance of convolutional neural networks being a canonical example. Equivariances can be embedded in architectures through weight-sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Tycho F. A. van der Ouderaa , David W. Romero , Mark van der Wilk

Equivariant neural networks (ENNs) are graph neural networks embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$ and are well suited for predicting molecular properties. The ENN library e3nn has customizable convolutions, which can be designed to depend only on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Benjamin Kurt Miller , Mario Geiger , Tess E. Smidt , Frank Noé

Recently, learning equivariant representations has attracted considerable research attention. Dieleman et al. introduce four operations which can be inserted into convolutional neural network to learn deep representations equivariant to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Junying Li , Zichen Yang , Haifeng Liu , Deng Cai

Quantum neural network architectures that have little-to-no inductive biases are known to face trainability and generalization issues. Inspired by a similar problem, recent breakthroughs in machine learning address this challenge by…

Scattering networks are a class of designed Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with fixed weights. We argue they can serve as generic representations for modelling images. In particular, by working in scattering space, we achieve…

This paper presents a novel framework for non-linear equivariant neural network layers on homogeneous spaces. The seminal work of Cohen et al. on equivariant $G$-CNNs on homogeneous spaces characterized the representation theory of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Elias Nyholm , Oscar Carlsson , Maurice Weiler , Daniel Persson

Convolutional neural network (CNN) is a class of artificial neural networks widely used in computer vision tasks. Most CNNs achieve excellent performance by stacking certain types of basic units. In addition to increasing the depth and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Junyi An , Fengshan Liu , Jian Zhao , Furao Shen

Automatic tumor segmentation is a crucial step in medical image analysis for computer-aided diagnosis. Although the existing methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved the state-of-the-art performance, many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-11 Shuchao Pang , Anan Du , Mehmet A. Orgun , Yan Wang , Quanzheng Sheng , Shoujin Wang , Xiaoshui Huang , Zhemei Yu

Encoding the scale information explicitly into the representation learned by a convolutional neural network (CNN) is beneficial for many computer vision tasks especially when dealing with multiscale inputs. We study, in this paper, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Wei Zhu , Qiang Qiu , Robert Calderbank , Guillermo Sapiro , Xiuyuan Cheng