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Point clouds have grown in importance in the way computers perceive the world. From LIDAR sensors in autonomous cars and drones to the time of flight and stereo vision systems in our phones, point clouds are everywhere. Despite their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Vinit Sarode , Animesh Dhagat , Rangaprasad Arun Srivatsan , Nicolas Zevallos , Simon Lucey , Howie Choset

In many machine learning tasks it is desirable that a model's prediction transforms in an equivariant way under transformations of its input. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) implement translational equivariance by construction; for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Maurice Weiler , Fred A. Hamprecht , Martin Storath

Group equivariant neural networks have been explored in the past few years and are interesting from theoretical and practical standpoints. They leverage concepts from group representation theory, non-commutative harmonic analysis and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Carlos Esteves

We propose that simple neural networks (NNs) trained on crossing symmetry can reconstruct conformal correlators restricted to a line to remarkable accuracy. The input is minimal: an external scaling dimension, a spectral gap, and the value…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Kausik Ghosh , Sidhaarth Kumar , Vasilis Niarchos , Andreas Stergiou

This paper presents a novel framework combining group equivariant convolutional neural networks (G-CNNs) with equivariant-aware structured pruning to produce compact, transformation-invariant models for resource-constrained environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Mohammed Alnemari

In this paper, we utilize hyperspheres and regular $n$-simplexes and propose an approach to learning deep features equivariant under the transformations of $n$D reflections and rotations, encompassed by the powerful group of O$(n)$. Namely,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Pavlo Melnyk , Michael Felsberg , Mårten Wadenbäck , Andreas Robinson , Cuong Le

Euclidean E(3) equivariant neural networks that employ scalar fields on position-orientation space M(3) have been effectively applied to tasks such as predicting molecular dynamics and properties. To perform equivariant convolutional-like…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Gijs Bellaard , Bart M. N. Smets , Remco Duits

Recent advances in deep learning and Transformers have driven major breakthroughs in robotics by employing techniques such as imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and LLM-based multimodal perception and decision-making. However,…

It has been observed that design choices of neural networks are often crucial for their successful optimization. In this article, we therefore discuss the question if it is always possible to redesign a neural network so that it trains well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 G. Welper

We introduce a class of fully-connected neural networks whose activation functions, rather than being pointwise, rescale feature vectors by a function depending only on their norm. We call such networks radial neural networks, extending…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Iordan Ganev , Twan van Laarhoven , Robin Walters

We present a novel rotation invariant architecture operating directly on point cloud data. We demonstrate how rotation invariance can be injected into a recently proposed point-based PCNN architecture, at all layers of the network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Adrien Poulenard , Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Yann Ponty , Maks Ovsjanikov

This article deals with approximating steady-state particle-resolved fluid flow around a fixed particle of interest under the influence of randomly distributed stationary particles in a dispersed multiphase setup using Convolutional Neural…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-25 Bhargav Sriram Siddani , S. Balachandar , Ruogu Fang

This paper is concerned with a fundamental problem in geometric deep learning that arises in the construction of convolutional neural networks on surfaces. Due to curvature, the transport of filter kernels on surfaces results in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Ruben Wiersma , Elmar Eisemann , Klaus Hildebrandt

Invariant and equivariant networks have been successfully used for learning images, sets, point clouds, and graphs. A basic challenge in developing such networks is finding the maximal collection of invariant and equivariant linear layers.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Haggai Maron , Heli Ben-Hamu , Nadav Shamir , Yaron Lipman

We address the problem of improving the performance and in particular the sample complexity of deep neural networks by enforcing and guaranteeing invariances to symmetry transformations rather than learning them from data. Group-equivariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Matthias Rath , Alexandru Paul Condurache

Exploiting symmetries and invariance in data is a powerful, yet not fully exploited, way to achieve better generalisation with more efficiency. In this paper, we introduce two graph network architectures that are equivariant to several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Francesco Farina , Emma Slade

Incorporating equivariance as an inductive bias into deep learning architectures to take advantage of the data symmetry has been successful in multiple applications, such as chemistry and dynamical systems. In particular, roto-translations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Ahmed A. Elhag , T. Konstantin Rusch , Francesco Di Giovanni , Michael Bronstein

Equivariant machine learning is an approach for designing deep learning models that respect the symmetries of the problem, with the aim of reducing model complexity and improving generalization. In this paper, we focus on an extension of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Ya-Wei Eileen Lin , Ronen Talmon , Ron Levie

Deep learning has been widely applied and brought breakthroughs in speech recognition, computer vision, and many other domains. The involved deep neural network architectures and computational issues have been well studied in machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Ding-Xuan Zhou

Despite their widespread success in various domains, Transformer networks have yet to perform well across datasets in the domain of 3D atomistic graphs such as molecules even when 3D-related inductive biases like translational invariance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yi-Lun Liao , Tess Smidt