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In recent years, the use of machine learning has become increasingly popular in the context of lattice field theories. An essential element of such theories is represented by symmetries, whose inclusion in the neural network properties can…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-12-24 Srinath Bulusu , Matteo Favoni , Andreas Ipp , David I. Müller , Daniel Schuh

Several recent works have empirically observed that Convolutional Neural Nets (CNNs) are (approximately) invertible. To understand this approximate invertibility phenomenon and how to leverage it more effectively, we focus on a theoretical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-25 Anna C. Gilbert , Yi Zhang , Kibok Lee , Yuting Zhang , Honglak Lee

In this proceeding we give an overview of the idea of covariance (or equivariance) featured in the recent development of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). We study the similarities and differences between the use of covariance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Miranda C. N. Cheng , Vassilis Anagiannis , Maurice Weiler , Pim de Haan , Taco S. Cohen , Max Welling

Incorporating equivariance to symmetry groups as a constraint during neural network training can improve performance and generalization for tasks exhibiting those symmetries, but such symmetries are often not perfectly nor explicitly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Kaitlin Maile , Dennis G. Wilson , Patrick Forré

The dynamics of physical systems is often constrained to lower dimensional sub-spaces due to the presence of conserved quantities. Here we propose a method to learn and exploit such symmetry constraints building upon Hamiltonian Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Marc Syvaeri , Sven Krippendorf

Invariance under symmetry is an important problem in machine learning. Our paper looks specifically at equivariant neural networks where transformations of inputs yield homomorphic transformations of outputs. Here, steerable CNNs have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Daniel Franzen , Michael Wand

This paper seeks to answer the question: as the (near-) orthogonality of weights is found to be a favorable property for training deep convolutional neural networks, how can we enforce it in more effective and easy-to-use ways? We develop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Nitin Bansal , Xiaohan Chen , Zhangyang Wang

Equivariance is a powerful prior for learning physical dynamics, yet exact group equivariance can degrade performance if the symmetries are broken. We propose object-centric world models built with geometric algebra neural networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Hampus Linander , Conor Heins , Alexander Tschantz , Marco Perin , Christopher Buckley

This paper introduces a new Convolutional Neural Network (ConvNet) architecture inspired by a class of partial differential equations (PDEs) called quasi-linear hyperbolic systems. With comparable performance on the image classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yao Liu , Hang Shao , Bing Bai

Despite the importance of image representations such as histograms of oriented gradients and deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), our theoretical understanding of them remains limited. Aiming at filling this gap, we investigate three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Karel Lenc , Andrea Vedaldi

We study the problem of learning equivariant neural networks via gradient descent. The incorporation of known symmetries ("equivariance") into neural nets has empirically improved the performance of learning pipelines, in domains ranging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Bobak T. Kiani , Thien Le , Hannah Lawrence , Stefanie Jegelka , Melanie Weber

Equivariance of neural networks to transformations helps to improve their performance and reduce generalization error in computer vision tasks, as they apply to datasets presenting symmetries (e.g. scalings, rotations, translations). The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Mateus Sangalli , Samy Blusseau , Santiago Velasco-Forero , Jesus Angulo

Equivariance is a powerful inductive bias in neural networks, improving generalisation and physical consistency. Recently, however, non-equivariant models have regained attention, due to their better runtime performance and imperfect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Torben Berndt , Jan Stühmer

Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) are suggested as one of the quantum algorithms which can be efficiently simulated with a low depth on near-term quantum hardware in the presence of noises. However, their performance highly relies on choosing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Su Yeon Chang , Michele Grossi , Bertrand Le Saux , Sofia Vallecorsa

Many scientific problems require to process data in the form of geometric graphs. Unlike generic graph data, geometric graphs exhibit symmetries of translations, rotations, and/or reflections. Researchers have leveraged such inductive bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Jiaqi Han , Yu Rong , Tingyang Xu , Wenbing Huang

Units equivariance (or units covariance) is the exact symmetry that follows from the requirement that relationships among measured quantities of physics relevance must obey self-consistent dimensional scalings. Here, we express this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-26 Soledad Villar , Weichi Yao , David W. Hogg , Ben Blum-Smith , Bianca Dumitrascu

We review a novel neural network architecture called lattice gauge equivariant convolutional neural networks (L-CNNs), which can be applied to generic machine learning problems in lattice gauge theory while exactly preserving gauge…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-11-09 Matteo Favoni , Andreas Ipp , David I. Müller , Daniel Schuh

In this work, we focus on using convolution neural networks (CNN) to perform object recognition on the event data. In object recognition, it is important for a neural network to be robust to the variations of the data during testing. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Ziyun Wang

Equivariance is a fundamental property in computer vision models, yet strict equivariance is rarely satisfied in real-world data, which can limit a model's performance. Controlling the degree of equivariance is therefore desirable. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Md Ashiqur Rahman , Lim Jun Hao , Jeremiah Jiang , Teck-Yian Lim , Raymond A. Yeh

Machine learning has recently entered into the mainstream of coarse-grained (CG) molecular modeling and simulation. While a variety of methods for incorporating deep learning into these models exist, many of them involve training neural…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-02 Timothy D. Loose , Patrick G. Sahrmann , Thomas S. Qu , Gregory A. Voth