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Learning maps between data samples is fundamental. Applications range from representation learning, image translation and generative modeling, to the estimation of spatial deformations. Such maps relate feature vectors, or map between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Hastings Greer , Roland Kwitt , Francois-Xavier Vialard , Marc Niethammer

In autonomous driving, deep learning enabled motion prediction is a popular topic. A critical gap in traditional motion prediction methodologies lies in ensuring equivariance under Euclidean geometric transformations and maintaining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuping Wang , Jier Chen

Supervised learning with deep models has tremendous potential for applications in materials science. Recently, graph neural networks have been used in this context, drawing direct inspiration from models for molecules. However, materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-18 Sékou-Oumar Kaba , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

Many geometric learning problems require invariants on heterogeneous product spaces, i.e., products of distinct spaces carrying different group actions, where standard techniques do not directly apply. We show that, when a group $G$ acts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Alejandro García-Castellanos , Gijs Bellaard , Remco Duits , Daniel Pelt , Erik J Bekkers

Steerable convolutional neural networks (SCNNs) enhance task performance by modelling geometric symmetries through equivariance constraints on weights. Yet, unknown or varying symmetries can lead to overconstrained weights and decreased…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Lars Veefkind , Gabriele Cesa

We study how group symmetry helps improve data efficiency and generalization for end-to-end differentiable planning algorithms when symmetry appears in decision-making tasks. Motivated by equivariant convolution networks, we treat the path…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Linfeng Zhao , Xupeng Zhu , Lingzhi Kong , Robin Walters , Lawson L. S. Wong

Recent equivariant models have shown significant progress in not just chemical property prediction, but as surrogates for dynamical simulations of molecules and materials. Many of the top performing models in this category are built within…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-11 Kin Long Kelvin Lee , Mikhail Galkin , Santiago Miret

In this paper, we leverage self-supervised vision transformer models and their emergent semantic abilities to improve the generalization abilities of imitation learning policies. We introduce DVK, an imitation learning algorithm that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Wei-Di Chang , Francois Hogan , Scott Fujimoto , David Meger , Gregory Dudek

We present a representation learning algorithm that learns a low-dimensional latent dynamical system from high-dimensional \textit{sequential} raw data, e.g., video. The framework builds upon recent advances in amortized inference methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Jung-Su Ha , Young-Jin Park , Hyeok-Joo Chae , Soon-Seo Park , Han-Lim Choi

We consider the problem of image representation for the tasks of unsupervised learning and semi-supervised learning. In those learning tasks, the raw image vectors may not provide enough representation for their intrinsic structures due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-20 Yiyi Liao , Yue Wang , Yong Liu

We present a new approach for predictive modeling and its uncertainty quantification for mechanical systems, where coarse-grained models such as constitutive relations are derived directly from observation data. We explore the use of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Daniel Z. Huang , Kailai Xu , Charbel Farhat , Eric Darve

This work deals with the problem of stabilizing a multi-agent rigid formation on a general class of planar curves. Namely, we seek to stabilize an equilateral polygonal formation on closed planar differentiable curves after a path sweep.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Mohamed Elobaid , Shinkyu Park , Eric Feron

Let $k$ be a field, let $G$ be a reductive group, and let $V$ be a linear representation of $G$. Let $V//G = Spec(Sym(V^*))^G$ denote the geometric quotient and let $\pi: V \to V//G$ denote the quotient map. Arithmetic invariant theory…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-10-30 Manjul Bhargava , Benedict H. Gross , Xiaoheng Wang

Many scientific and geometric problems exhibit general linear symmetries, yet most equivariant neural networks are built for compact groups or simple vector features, limiting their reuse on matrix-valued data such as covariances, inertias,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Chankyo Kim , Sicheng Zhao , Minghan Zhu , Tzu-Yuan Lin , Maani Ghaffari

Learning interpretable and human-controllable representations that uncover factors of variation in data remains an ongoing key challenge in representation learning. We investigate learning group-disentangled representations for groups of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Linh Tran , Amir Hosein Khasahmadi , Aditya Sanghi , Saeid Asgari

In this work we investigate how to achieve equivariance to input transformations in deep networks, purely from data, without being given a model of those transformations. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), for example, are equivariant to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Jianbo Jiao , João F. Henriques

Neural networks are a promising tool for simulating quantum many body systems. Recently, it has been shown that neural network-based models describe quantum many body systems more accurately when they are constrained to have the correct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 Christopher Roth , Allan H. MacDonald

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are commonly described as being permutation equivariant with respect to node relabeling in the graph. This symmetry of GNNs is often compared to the translation equivariance of Euclidean convolution neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-20 Ningyuan Huang , Ron Levie , Soledad Villar

Invariant theory is concerned with functions that do not change under the action of a given group. Here we communicate an approach based on tensor networks to represent polynomial local unitary invariants of quantum states. This graphical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 Jacob Biamonte , Ville Bergholm , Marco Lanzagorta

Many applications require the robustness, or ideally the invariance, of a neural network to certain transformations of input data. Most commonly, this requirement is addressed by either augmenting the training data, using adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Kanchana Vaishnavi Gandikota , Jonas Geiping , Zorah Lähner , Adam Czapliński , Michael Moeller