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3D Euclidean symmetry equivariant neural networks have demonstrated notable success in modeling complex physical systems. We introduce a framework for relaxed $E(3)$ graph equivariant neural networks that can learn and represent symmetry…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Elyssa Hofgard , Rui Wang , Robin Walters , Tess Smidt

Many learning tasks, including learning potential energy surfaces from ab initio calculations, involve global spatial symmetries and permutational symmetry between atoms or general particles. Equivariant graph neural networks are a standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Zimu Li , Zihan Pengmei , Han Zheng , Erik Thiede , Junyu Liu , Risi Kondor

Convolutions encode equivariance symmetries into neural networks leading to better generalisation performance. However, symmetries provide fixed hard constraints on the functions a network can represent, need to be specified in advance, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Tycho F. A. van der Ouderaa , Alexander Immer , Mark van der Wilk

Equivariance has been a long-standing concern in various fields ranging from computer vision to physical modeling. Most previous methods struggle with generality, simplicity, and expressiveness -- some are designed ad hoc for specific data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Shitong Luo , Jiahan Li , Jiaqi Guan , Yufeng Su , Chaoran Cheng , Jian Peng , Jianzhu Ma

Gradients of neural networks encode valuable information for optimization, editing, and analysis of models. Therefore, practitioners often treat gradients as inputs to task-specific algorithms, e.g. for pruning or optimization. Recent works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yoav Gelberg , Yam Eitan , Aviv Navon , Aviv Shamsian , Theo , Putterman , Michael Bronstein , Haggai Maron

Group equivariant neural networks are used as building blocks of group invariant neural networks, which have been shown to improve generalisation performance and data efficiency through principled parameter sharing. Such works have mostly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Michael Hutchinson , Charline Le Lan , Sheheryar Zaidi , Emilien Dupont , Yee Whye Teh , Hyunjik Kim

Equivariant neural networks have been widely used in a variety of applications due to their ability to generalize well in tasks where the underlying data symmetries are known. Despite their successes, such networks can be difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Stefanos Pertigkiozoglou , Evangelos Chatzipantazis , Shubhendu Trivedi , Kostas Daniilidis

Neural networks that are equivariant to rotations, translations, reflections, and permutations on n-dimensional geometric space have shown promise in physical modeling for tasks such as accurately but inexpensively modeling complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Yuanqing Wang , John D. Chodera

Self-supervised image denoising methods have garnered significant research attention in recent years, for this kind of method reduces the requirement of large training datasets. Compared to supervised methods, self-supervised methods rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hanze Liu , Jiahong Fu , Qi Xie , Deyu Meng

Analyzing scalar and vector fields on the sphere, such as temperature or wind speed and direction on Earth, is a difficult task. Models should respect both the rotational symmetries of the sphere and the inherent symmetries of the vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Francesco Ballerin , Nello Blaser , Erlend Grong

Integrating a notion of symmetry into point cloud neural networks is a provably effective way to improve their generalization capability. Of particular interest are $E(3)$ equivariant point cloud networks where Euclidean transformations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Matan Atzmon , Jiahui Huang , Francis Williams , Or Litany

Equivariance of linear neural network layers is well studied. In this work, we relax the equivariance condition to only be true in a projective sense. We propose a way to construct a projectively equivariant neural network through building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Georg Bökman , Axel Flinth , Fredrik Kahl

We consider achieving equivariance in machine learning systems via frame averaging. Current frame averaging methods involve a costly sum over large frames or rely on sampling-based approaches that only yield approximate equivariance. Here,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yuchao Lin , Jacob Helwig , Shurui Gui , Shuiwang Ji

Humans perceive and interact with the world with the awareness of equivariance, facilitating us in manipulating different objects in diverse poses. For robotic manipulation, such equivariance also exists in many scenarios. For example, no…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Yue Chen , Chenrui Tie , Ruihai Wu , Hao Dong

We investigate the optimization of neural networks on symmetric data, and compare the strategy of constraining the architecture to be equivariant to that of using data augmentation. Our analysis reveals that that the relative geometry of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Oskar Nordenfors , Fredrik Ohlsson , Axel Flinth

This work investigates use of equivariant neural networks as efficient and high-performance frameworks for image reconstruction and denoising in nuclear medicine. Our work aims to tackle limitations of conventional Convolutional Neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Amirreza Hashemi , Yuemeng Feng , Arman Rahmim , Hamid Sabet

Neural networks that process the parameters of other neural networks find applications in domains as diverse as classifying implicit neural representations, generating neural network weights, and predicting generalization errors. However,…

Rigid motion tracking is paramount in many medical imaging applications where movements need to be detected, corrected, or accounted for. Modern strategies rely on convolutional neural networks (CNN) and pose this problem as rigid…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Benjamin Billot , Neel Dey , Daniel Moyer , Malte Hoffmann , Esra Abaci Turk , Borjan Gagoski , Ellen Grant , Polina Golland

Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN) are inherently equivariant under translations, however, they do not have an equivalent embedded mechanism to handle other transformations such as rotations and change in scale. Several approaches exist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Naman Khetan , Tushar Arora , Samee Ur Rehman , Deepak K. Gupta

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