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Symmetry is present throughout nature and continues to play an increasingly central role in physics and machine learning. Fundamental symmetries, such as Poincar\'{e} invariance, allow physical laws discovered in laboratories on Earth to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Samuel E. Otto , Nicholas Zolman , J. Nathan Kutz , Steven L. Brunton

Tractably modelling distributions over manifolds has long been an important goal in the natural sciences. Recent work has focused on developing general machine learning models to learn such distributions. However, for many applications…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-31 Isay Katsman , Aaron Lou , Derek Lim , Qingxuan Jiang , Ser-Nam Lim , Christopher De Sa

The solution of problems in physics is often facilitated by a change of variables. In this work we present neural transformations to learn symmetries of Hamiltonian mechanical systems. Maintaining the Hamiltonian structure requires novel…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Roberto Bondesan , Austen Lamacraft

Solution and analysis of mathematical programming problems may be simplified when these problems are symmetric under appropriate linear transformations. In particular, a knowledge of the symmetries may help reduce the problem dimension, cut…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-13 A. V. Eremeev , A. S. Yurkov

A general algebraic approach, incorporating both invariance groups and dynamic symmetry algebras, is developed to reveal hidden coherent structures (closed complexes and configurations) in quantum many-body physics models due to symmetries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Valery P. Karassiov

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown promise in learning unstructured mesh-based simulations of physical systems, including fluid dynamics. In tandem, geometric deep learning principles have informed the development of equivariant…

Discrete translational symmetry plays a fundamental role in condensed matter physics and lattice gauge theories, enabling the analysis of systems that would otherwise be intractable. Despite this, many open problems remain. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Joris Kattemölle , Guido Burkard

This manuscript presents a novel framework that integrates higher-order symmetries and category theory into machine learning. We introduce new mathematical constructs, including hyper-symmetry categories and functorial representations, to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Ronald Katende

It is well-known that the symmetry group of a Feynman diagram can give important information on possible strategies for its evaluation, and the mathematical objects that will be involved. Motivated by ongoing work on multi-loop multi-photon…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Idrish Huet , Michel Rausch de Traubenberg , Christian Schubert

Mathematical core of quantum mechanics is the theory of unitary representations of symmetries of physical systems. We argue that quantum behavior is a natural result of extraction of "observable" information about systems containing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-03 Vladimir V. Kornyak

We prove for the first time that, if a linear inverse problem exhibits a group symmetry structure, gradient-based optimizers can be designed to exploit this structure for faster convergence rates. This theoretical finding demonstrates the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Junqi Tang , Guixian Xu

Symmetries play a central role in physics, organizing dynamics, constraining interactions, and determining the effective number of physical degrees of freedom. In parallel, modern artificial intelligence methods have demonstrated a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-03 Veronica Sanz

Group-equivariant quantum models are designed to exploit symmetry and can improve trainability, but it remains unclear how symmetry constraints shape their adversarial robustness. We study this question through a feature-level analysis of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Maureen Krumtünger , Martin Sevior , Muhammad Usman

Incorporating symmetry as an inductive bias into neural network architecture has led to improvements in generalization, data efficiency, and physical consistency in dynamics modeling. Methods such as CNNs or equivariant neural networks use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Rui Wang , Robin Walters , Rose Yu

We present a comprehensive framework for studying and leveraging morphological symmetries in robotic systems. These are intrinsic properties of the robot's morphology, frequently observed in animal biology and robotics, which stem from the…

Incorporating symmetries can lead to highly data-efficient and generalizable models by defining equivalence classes of data samples related by transformations. However, characterizing how transformations act on input data is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Jung Yeon Park , Ondrej Biza , Linfeng Zhao , Jan Willem van de Meent , Robin Walters

We present a neural network architecture that is fully equivariant with respect to transformations under the Lorentz group, a fundamental symmetry of space and time in physics. The architecture is based on the theory of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-09 Alexander Bogatskiy , Brandon Anderson , Jan T. Offermann , Marwah Roussi , David W. Miller , Risi Kondor

Symmetric quantum states are fascinating objects. They correspond to multipartite systems that remain invariant under particle permutations. This symmetry is reflected in their compact mathematical characterisation but also in their unique…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Carlo Marconi , Guillem Müller-Rigat , Jordi Romero-Pallejà , Jordi Tura , Anna Sanpera

Mathematical descriptions of dynamical systems are deeply rooted in topological spaces defined by non-Euclidean geometry. This paper proposes leveraging structure-rich geometric spaces for machine learning to achieve structural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Zack Xuereb Conti , David J Wagg , Nick Pepper

Many successful deep learning architectures are equivariant to certain transformations in order to conserve parameters and improve generalization: most famously, convolution layers are equivariant to shifts of the input. This approach only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Allan Zhou , Tom Knowles , Chelsea Finn