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We introduce Equivariant Isomorphic Networks (EquIN) -- a method for learning representations that are equivariant with respect to general group actions over data. Differently from existing equivariant representation learners, EquIN is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Luis Armando Pérez Rey , Giovanni Luca Marchetti , Danica Kragic , Dmitri Jarnikov , Mike Holenderski

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

The filtration on the infinite symmetric product of spheres by the number of factors provides a sequence of spectra between the sphere spectrum and the integral Eilenberg-Mac Lane spectrum. This filtration has received a lot of attention…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-04-03 Stefan Schwede

Although equivariant machine learning has proven effective at many tasks, success depends heavily on the assumption that the ground truth function is symmetric over the entire domain matching the symmetry in an equivariant neural network. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Dian Wang , Xupeng Zhu , Jung Yeon Park , Mingxi Jia , Guanang Su , Robert Platt , Robin Walters

Radar-Inertial Odometry (RIO) based on the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) relies on accurate extrinsic calibration between the radar and the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and is sensitive to disturbances, as large linearization errors can…

State-of-the-art deep learning systems often require large amounts of data and computation. For this reason, leveraging known or unknown structure of the data is paramount. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are successful examples of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Carlos Esteves

Incorporating permutation equivariance into neural networks has proven to be useful in ensuring that models respect symmetries that exist in data. Symmetric tensors, which naturally appear in statistics, machine learning, and graph theory,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Edward Pearce-Crump

Generative modeling seeks to uncover the underlying factors that give rise to observed data that can often be modeled as the natural symmetries that manifest themselves through invariances and equivariances to certain transformation laws.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Avishek Joey Bose , Marcus Brubaker , Ivan Kobyzev

Inconsistency issue is one crucial challenge for the performance of extended Kalman filter (EKF) based methods for state estimation problems, which is mainly affected by the discrepancy of observability between the EKF model and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yang Song , Liang Zhao , Shoudong Huang

The field of machine have seen rising applications of equivariance criterion. However, there is no systematic way to justify its usage, including why it works, whether there is an optimal solution and if so, what form it carries. In this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Daowei Wang , Mian Wu , Haojin Zhou

Accurate estimation of noise parameters is critical for optimal filter performance, especially in systems where true noise parameter values are unknown or time-varying. This article presents a quaternion left-invariant extended Kalman…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Yash Pandey , Rahul Bhattacharyya , Yatindra Nath Singh

Incorporating group symmetries via equivariance into neural networks has emerged as a robust approach for overcoming the efficiency and data demands of modern deep learning. While most existing approaches, such as group convolutions and…

Equivariant quantum neural networks (QNNs) are promising variational models that exploit symmetries to improve machine learning capabilities. Despite theoretical developments in equivariant QNNs, their implementation on near-term quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Koki Chinzei , Quoc Hoan Tran , Yasuhiro Endo , Hirotaka Oshima

This letter re-visits the problem of visual-inertial navigation system (VINS) and presents a novel filter design we dub the multi state constraint equivariant filter (MSCEqF, in analogy to the well known MSCKF). We define a symmetry group…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Alessandro Fornasier , Pieter van Goor , Eren Allak , Robert Mahony , Stephan Weiss

We present a general framework for symmetrizing an arbitrary neural-network architecture and making it equivariant with respect to a given group. We build upon the proposals of Kim et al. (2023); Kaba et al. (2023) for symmetrization, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Tien Dat Nguyen , Jinwoo Kim , Hongseok Yang , Seunghoon Hong

We investigate the relation between end-to-end equivariance and layerwise equivariance in deep neural networks. We prove the following: For a network whose end-to-end function is equivariant with respect to group actions on the input and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Vahid Shahverdi , Giovanni Luca Marchetti , Georg Bökman , Kathlén Kohn

Legged robots require knowledge of pose and velocity in order to maintain stability and execute walking paths. Current solutions either rely on vision data, which is susceptible to environmental and lighting conditions, or fusion of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Ross Hartley , Maani Ghaffari , Ryan M. Eustice , Jessy W. Grizzle

This paper addresses two interrelated problems of the nonlinear filtering mechanism and fast attitude filtering with the matrix Fisher distribution (MFD) on the special orthogonal group. By analyzing the distribution evolution along Bayes'…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Shijie Wang , Haichao Gui , Rui Zhong

There exist many examples of systems which have some symmetries, and which one may monitor with symmetry preserving controls. Since symmetries are preserved along the evolution, full controllability is not possible, and controllability has…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Andrei Agrachev , Cyril Letrouit

This paper provides a new observer design methodology for invariant systems whose state evolves on a Lie group with outputs in a collection of related homogeneous spaces and where the measurement of system input is corrupted by an unknown…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Alireza Khosravian , Jochen Trumpf , Robert Mahony , Christian Lageman