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We present Clifford-Steerable Convolutional Neural Networks (CS-CNNs), a novel class of $\mathrm{E}(p, q)$-equivariant CNNs. CS-CNNs process multivector fields on pseudo-Euclidean spaces $\mathbb{R}^{p,q}$. They cover, for instance,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Maksim Zhdanov , David Ruhe , Maurice Weiler , Ana Lucic , Johannes Brandstetter , Patrick Forré

Equivariant Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have significantly advanced the modeling of 3D molecular structure by leveraging group representations. However, their message passing, heavily relying on Clebsch-Gordan tensor product convolutions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Junyi An , Xinyu Lu , Chao Qu , Yunfei Shi , Peijia Lin , Qianwei Tang , Licheng Xu , Fenglei Cao , Yuan Qi

Emerging from low-level vision theory, steerable filters found their counterpart in prior work on steerable convolutional neural networks equivariant to rigid transformations. In our work, we propose a steerable feed-forward learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Pavlo Melnyk , Michael Felsberg , Mårten Wadenbäck

In recent years, deep learning techniques have shown great success in various tasks related to inverse problems, where a target quantity of interest can only be observed through indirect measurements by a forward operator. Common approaches…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Matthias Beckmann , Nick Heilenkötter

In many practical applications, 3D point cloud analysis requires rotation invariance. In this paper, we present a learnable descriptor invariant under 3D rotations and reflections, i.e., the O(3) actions, utilizing the recently introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Pavlo Melnyk , Andreas Robinson , Michael Felsberg , Mårten Wadenbäck

In many computer vision tasks, we expect a particular behavior of the output with respect to rotations of the input image. If this relationship is explicitly encoded, instead of treated as any other variation, the complexity of the problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Diego Marcos , Michele Volpi , Nikos Komodakis , Devis Tuia

In remote sensing images, the absolute orientation of objects is arbitrary. Depending on an object's orientation and on a sensor's flight path, objects of the same semantic class can be observed in different orientations in the same image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Diego Marcos , Michele Volpi , Benjamin Kellenberger , Devis Tuia

Graph neural networks excel at modeling pairwise interactions, but they cannot flexibly accommodate higher-order interactions and features. Topological deep learning (TDL) has emerged recently as a promising tool for addressing this issue.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Claudio Battiloro , Ege Karaismailoğlu , Mauricio Tec , George Dasoulas , Michelle Audirac , Francesca Dominici

Standard convolutions are prevalent in image processing and deep learning, but their fixed kernels limits adaptability. Several deformation strategies of the reference kernel grid have been proposed. Yet, they lack a unified theoretical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Thomas Dagès , Michael Lindenbaum , Alfred M. Bruckstein

Metric learning has received conflicting assessments concerning its suitability for solving instance segmentation tasks. It has been dismissed as theoretically flawed due to the shift equivariance of the employed CNNs and their respective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Josef Lorenz Rumberger , Xiaoyan Yu , Peter Hirsch , Melanie Dohmen , Vanessa Emanuela Guarino , Ashkan Mokarian , Lisa Mais , Jan Funke , Dagmar Kainmueller

End-to-end learning for visual robotic manipulation is known to suffer from sample inefficiency, requiring large numbers of demonstrations. The spatial roto-translation equivariance, or the SE(3)-equivariance can be exploited to improve the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Hyunwoo Ryu , Hong-in Lee , Jeong-Hoon Lee , Jongeun Choi

The Symmetric group $S_{n}$ manifests itself in large classes of quantum systems as the invariance of certain characteristics of a quantum state with respect to permuting the qubits. The subgroups of $S_{n}$ arise, among many other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Sreetama Das , Filippo Caruso

Invariance to spatial transformations such as translations and rotations is a desirable property and a basic design principle for classification neural networks. However, the commonly used convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are actually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Yihan Wang , Lijia Yu , Xiao-Shan Gao

Modeling global geometric context while maintaining equivariance is crucial for accurate predictions in many fields such as biology, chemistry, or vision. Yet, this is challenging due to the computational demands of processing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Artem Moskalev , Mangal Prakash , Rui Liao , Tommaso Mansi

Many natural and engineered time series -- equity returns, climate anomalies, turbulent velocities, neural recordings, packet-level network traffic -- are approximately self-similar: their horizon-$T$ distribution is tied to the horizon-$1$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Andrea Morandi

Learning equivariant representations is a promising way to reduce sample and model complexity and improve the generalization performance of deep neural networks. The spherical CNNs are successful examples, producing SO(3)-equivariant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Carlos Esteves , Ameesh Makadia , Kostas Daniilidis

Convolutional neural networks owe much of their success to hard-coding translation equivariance. Quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs) have been proposed as near-term quantum analogues, but the relevant notion of translation depends…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Dmitry Chirkov , Igor Lobanov

Mesh-based 3D static analysis methods have recently emerged as efficient alternatives to traditional computational numerical solvers, significantly reducing computational costs and runtime for various physics-based analyses. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Sungwon Kim , Namkyeong Lee , Yunyoung Doh , Seungmin Shin , Guimok Cho , Seung-Won Jeon , Sangkook Kim , Chanyoung Park

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

This work introduces a diffusion model for molecule generation in 3D that is equivariant to Euclidean transformations. Our E(3) Equivariant Diffusion Model (EDM) learns to denoise a diffusion process with an equivariant network that jointly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Emiel Hoogeboom , Victor Garcia Satorras , Clément Vignac , Max Welling