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Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have proven useful in disentangling the opaque activations of neural networks, primarily large language models, into sets of interpretable features. However, adapting them to domains beyond language, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Ege Erdogan , Ana Lucic

Sentence encoders, which produce sentence embeddings using neural networks, are typically evaluated by how well they transfer to downstream tasks. This includes semantic similarity, an important task in natural language understanding.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Li Zhang , Steven R. Wilson , Rada Mihalcea

Neural network parameterizations exhibit inherent symmetries that yield multiple equivalent minima within the loss landscape. Scale Graph Metanetworks (ScaleGMNs) explicitly leverage these symmetries by proposing an architecture equivariant…

Incorporating inductive bias by embedding geometric entities (such as rays) as input has proven successful in multi-view learning. However, the methods adopting this technique typically lack equivariance, which is crucial for effective 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Yinshuang Xu , Dian Chen , Katherine Liu , Sergey Zakharov , Rares Ambrus , Kostas Daniilidis , Vitor Guizilini

Multi-dimensional data exploration is a classic research topic in visualization. Most existing approaches are designed for identifying record patterns in dimensional space or subspace. In this paper, we propose a visual analytics approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Peng Xie , Wenyuan Tao , Jie Li , Wentao Huang , Siming Chen

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 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

Recognizing symmetries in data allows for significant boosts in neural network training. In many cases, however, the underlying symmetry is present only in an idealized dataset, and is broken in the training data, due to effects such as…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-13 Edmund Witkowski , Daniel Whiteson

Image restoration is an inherently ill posed inverse problem. Equivariant networks that embed geometric symmetry priors can mitigate this ill posedness and improve performance. However, current understanding of the relationship between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Feiyu Tan , Qi Xie , Zongben Xu , Deyu Meng

Recent deep learning models can efficiently combine inputs from different modalities (e.g., images and text) and learn to align their latent representations, or to translate signals from one domain to another (as in image captioning, or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Benjamin Devillers , Léopold Maytié , Rufin VanRullen

Group equivariance has emerged as a valuable inductive bias in deep learning, enhancing generalization, data efficiency, and robustness. Classically, group equivariant methods require the groups of interest to be known beforehand, which may…

The principle of translation equivariance (if an input image is translated an output image should be translated by the same amount), led to the development of convolutional neural networks that revolutionized machine vision. Other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zachary Schlamowitz , Andrew Bennecke , Daniel J. Tward

Correctly capturing the symmetry transformations of data can lead to efficient models with strong generalization capabilities, though methods incorporating symmetries often require prior knowledge. While recent advancements have been made…

Deep learning models develop successive representations of their input in sequential layers, the last of which maps the final representation to the output. Here we investigate the informational content of these representations by observing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Benjamin L. Badger

This paper proposes a new deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) architecture that learns pixel embeddings, such that pairwise distances between the embeddings can be used to infer whether or not the pixels lie on the same region. That…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Adam W. Harley , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Iasonas Kokkinos

Self-supervised visual representation methods are closing the gap with supervised learning performance. These methods rely on maximizing the similarity between embeddings of related synthetic inputs created through data augmentations. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Alexandre Devillers , Mathieu Lefort

The fundamental goal of self-supervised learning (SSL) is to produce useful representations of data without access to any labels for classifying the data. Modern methods in SSL, which form representations based on known or constructed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Bobak T. Kiani , Randall Balestriero , Yubei Chen , Seth Lloyd , Yann LeCun

In this paper, we introduce group convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) equivariant to color variation. GCNNs have been designed for a variety of geometric transformations from 2D and 3D rotation groups, to semi-groups such as scale.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yulong Yang , Felix O'Mahony , Christine Allen-Blanchette

This paper presents $\mathrm{E}(n)$ Equivariant Message Passing Simplicial Networks (EMPSNs), a novel approach to learning on geometric graphs and point clouds that is equivariant to rotations, translations, and reflections. EMPSNs can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Floor Eijkelboom , Rob Hesselink , Erik Bekkers

Network embedding methods aim at learning low-dimensional latent representation of nodes in a network. These representations can be used as features for a wide range of tasks on graphs such as classification, clustering, link prediction,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Haochen Chen , Bryan Perozzi , Rami Al-Rfou , Steven Skiena