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Conformal symmetries, i.e.\ coordinate transformations that preserve angles, play a key role in many fields, including physics, mathematics, computer vision and (geometric) machine learning. Here we build a neural network that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Maksim Zhdanov , Nabil Iqbal , Erik Bekkers , Patrick Forré

We propose a spherical kernel for efficient graph convolution of 3D point clouds. Our metric-based kernels systematically quantize the local 3D space to identify distinctive geometric relationships in the data. Similar to the regular grid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Huan Lei , Naveed Akhtar , Ajmal Mian

Node classification has gained significant importance in graph deep learning with real-world applications such as recommendation systems, drug discovery, and citation networks. Graph Convolutional Networks and Graph Transformers have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Aman Singh , Shahid Shafi Dar , Ranveer Singh , Nagendra Kumar

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

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

We consider the prediction of the Hamiltonian matrix, which finds use in quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics. Efficiency and equivariance are two important, but conflicting factors. In this work, we propose a SE(3)-equivariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Haiyang Yu , Zhao Xu , Xiaofeng Qian , Xiaoning Qian , Shuiwang Ji

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) excel at extracting local features hierarchically, but their performance in capturing complex correlations hinges heavily on deep architectures, which are usually computationally demanding and difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Chia-Wei Hsing , Wei-Lin Tu

Although group convolution operators are increasingly used in deep convolutional neural networks to improve the computational efficiency and to reduce the number of parameters, most existing methods construct their group convolution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Qingbei Guo , Xiao-Jun Wu , Josef Kittler , Zhiquan Feng

Based on the theory of homogeneous spaces we derive geometrically optimal edge attributes to be used within the flexible message-passing framework. We formalize the notion of weight sharing in convolutional networks as the sharing of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Erik J Bekkers , Sharvaree Vadgama , Rob D Hesselink , Putri A van der Linden , David W Romero

In this paper, we utilize hyperspheres and regular $n$-simplexes and propose an approach to learning deep features equivariant under the transformations of $n$D reflections and rotations, encompassed by the powerful group of O$(n)$. Namely,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Pavlo Melnyk , Michael Felsberg , Mårten Wadenbäck , Andreas Robinson , Cuong Le

In this paper, we propose a set of transform-based neural network layers as an alternative to the $3\times3$ Conv2D layers in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). The proposed layers can be implemented based on orthogonal transforms such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Hongyi Pan , Emadeldeen Hamdan , Xin Zhu , Salih Atici , Ahmet Enis Cetin

Modern Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures, despite their superiority in solving various problems, are generally too large to be deployed on resource constrained edge devices. In this paper, we reduce memory usage and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Marawan Gamal Abdel Hameed , Marzieh S. Tahaei , Ali Mosleh , Vahid Partovi Nia

Convolution is a central operation in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which applies a kernel to overlapping regions shifted across the image. However, because of the strong correlations in real-world image data, convolutional kernels…

Spherical data is found in many applications. By modeling the discretized sphere as a graph, we can accommodate non-uniformly distributed, partial, and changing samplings. Moreover, graph convolutions are computationally more efficient than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Michaël Defferrard , Nathanaël Perraudin , Tomasz Kacprzak , Raphael Sgier

We propose a novel neural network architecture, called autoencoder-constrained graph convolutional network, to solve node classification task on graph domains. As suggested by its name, the core of this model is a convolutional network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Mingyuan Ma , Sen Na , Hongyu Wang

The network embedding problem that maps nodes in a graph to vectors in Euclidean space can be very useful for addressing several important tasks on a graph. Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been proposed for solving such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Ping-En Lu , Cheng-Shang Chang

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

Incorporating symmetries can lead to highly data-efficient and generalizable models by defining equivalence classes of data samples related by transformations. However, characterizing how transformations act on input data is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Jung Yeon Park , Ondrej Biza , Linfeng Zhao , Jan Willem van de Meent , Robin Walters

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become indispensable for solving machine learning tasks in speech recognition, computer vision, and other areas that involve high-dimensional data. A CNN filters the input feature using a network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Jonathan Ephrath , Moshe Eliasof , Lars Ruthotto , Eldad Haber , Eran Treister