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There has been a recent interest in imitation learning methods that are guaranteed to produce a stabilizing control law with respect to a known system. Work in this area has generally considered linear systems and controllers, for which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-23 Sebastian East

Equivariant neural networks enforce symmetry within the structure of their convolutional layers, resulting in a substantial improvement in sample efficiency when learning an equivariant or invariant function. Such models are applicable to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Dian Wang , Robin Walters , Robert Platt

Equivariant neural networks encode geometric symmetries by construction, yet they are often difficult to optimize and can underperform less constrained architectures. A growing body of work addresses this through architectural modifications…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Teodor-Mihai Stupariu , Andrei Manolache

Although group convolutional networks are able to learn powerful representations based on symmetry patterns, they lack explicit means to learn meaningful relationships among them (e.g., relative positions and poses). In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 David W. Romero , Erik J. Bekkers , Jakub M. Tomczak , Mark Hoogendoorn

Learning to predict agent motions with relationship reasoning is important for many applications. In motion prediction tasks, maintaining motion equivariance under Euclidean geometric transformations and invariance of agent interaction is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Chenxin Xu , Robby T. Tan , Yuhong Tan , Siheng Chen , Yu Guang Wang , Xinchao Wang , Yanfeng Wang

Inspired by constraints from physical law, equivariant machine learning restricts the learning to a hypothesis class where all the functions are equivariant with respect to some group action. Irreducible representations or invariant theory…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-11 Ben Blum-Smith , Soledad Villar

Pre-trained deep image representations are useful for post-training tasks such as classification through transfer learning, image retrieval, and object detection. Data augmentations are a crucial aspect of pre-training robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Sangnie Bhardwaj , Willie McClinton , Tongzhou Wang , Guillaume Lajoie , Chen Sun , Phillip Isola , Dilip Krishnan

From early image processing to modern computational imaging, successful models and algorithms have relied on a fundamental property of natural signals: symmetry. Here symmetry refers to the invariance property of signal sets to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Dongdong Chen , Mike Davies , Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Ferdia Sherry , Julián Tachella

Transformation groups, such as translations or rotations, effectively express part of the variability observed in many recognition problems. The group structure enables the construction of invariant signal representations with appealing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-17 Joan Bruna , Arthur Szlam , Yann LeCun

Learning disentangled representations is a key step towards effectively discovering and modelling the underlying structure of environments. In the natural sciences, physics has found great success by describing the universe in terms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Robin Quessard , Thomas D. Barrett , William R. Clements

In this study, we introduce a method for learning group (known or unknown) equivariant functions by learning the associated quadratic form $x^T A x$ corresponding to the group from the data. Certain groups, known as orthogonal groups,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Pavan Karjol , Vivek V Kashyap , Rohan Kashyap , Prathosh A P

Incorporating inductive biases is a promising approach for tackling challenging robot learning domains with sample-efficient solutions. This paper identifies partially observable domains where symmetries can be a useful inductive bias for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Hai Nguyen , Andrea Baisero , David Klee , Dian Wang , Robert Platt , Christopher Amato

Robotic imitation learning has achieved impressive success in learning complex manipulation behaviors from demonstrations. However, many existing robot learning methods do not explicitly account for the physical symmetries of robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zhiyuan Zhang , Aditya Mohan , Seungho Han , Wan Shou , Dongyi Wang , Yu She

We propose a metric learning framework for the construction of invariant geometric functions of planar curves for the Eucledian and Similarity group of transformations. We leverage on the representational power of convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Gautam Pai , Aaron Wetzler , Ron Kimmel

Invariant and equivariant networks are useful in learning data with symmetry, including images, sets, point clouds, and graphs. In this paper, we consider invariant and equivariant networks for symmetries of finite groups. Invariant and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Akiyoshi Sannai , Makoto Kawano , Wataru Kumagai

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

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

Despite the successes of deep learning in computer vision, difficulties persist in recognizing objects that have undergone group-symmetric transformations rarely seen during training$\unicode{x2013}$for example objects seen in unusual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Minh Dinh , Stéphane Deny

Group equivariant neural networks have been explored in the past few years and are interesting from theoretical and practical standpoints. They leverage concepts from group representation theory, non-commutative harmonic analysis and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Carlos Esteves

We study equivariant projective compactifications of reductive groups obtained by closing the image of a group in the space of operators of a projective representation. We describe the structure and the mutual position of their orbits under…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Dmitri A. Timashev