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In this paper we propose a Deep Learning architecture to approximate diffeomorphisms diffeotopic to the identity. We consider a control system of the form $\dot x = \sum_{i=1}^lF_i(x)u_i$, with linear dependence in the controls, and we use…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-20 Alessandro Scagliotti

Neural ODEs are increasingly used as continuous-time models for scientific and sensor data, but unconstrained neural ODEs can drift and violate domain invariants (e.g., conservation laws), yielding physically implausible solutions. In turn,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Fangzhou Yu , Yiqi Su , Ray Lee , Shenfeng Cheng , Naren Ramakrishnan

We propose Lie group embedded dynamical neural networks (LieEDNN) and the corresponding learning algorithms based on gradient descent and metric projection on smooth manifold, where we treat Lie group as an intrinsic representation for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Tianwei Wang , Bryan Chen , Qian Zuo , Qiyue Xia , Xin Li , Wei Pang

Understanding how the dynamics in biological and artificial neural networks implement the computations required for a task is a salient open question in machine learning and neuroscience. In particular, computations requiring complex memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Timothy Doyeon Kim , Tankut Can , Kamesh Krishnamurthy

We investigate the dependence of the approximation capacity of deep residual networks on its depth in a continuous dynamical systems setting. This can be formulated as the general problem of quantifying the minimal time-horizon required to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jingpu Cheng , Qianxiao Li , Ting Lin , Zuowei Shen

Deep learning is the mainstream technique for many machine learning tasks, including image recognition, machine translation, speech recognition, and so on. It has outperformed conventional methods in various fields and achieved great…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Na Lei , Zhongxuan Luo , Shing-Tung Yau , David Xianfeng Gu

We introduce a technique that enables Neural-ODEs to approximate arbitrary velocity fields with a priori planted fixed-points. Specifically, a recipe is given to explicitly accommodate for a finite collection of points in the reference…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-12 Feliciano Giuseppe Pacifico , Duccio Fanelli , Lorenzo Buffoni , Lorenzo Chicchi , Diego Febbe , Raffaele Marino

Classical deep networks are effective because depth enables adaptive geometric deformation of data representations. In quantum neural networks (QNNs), however, depth or state reachability alone does not guarantee this feature-learning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Michael Spannowsky

A big mystery in deep learning continues to be the ability of methods to generalize when the number of model parameters is larger than the number of training examples. In this work, we take a step towards a better understanding of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Romain Cosentino , Randall Balestriero , Richard Baraniuk , Behnaam Aazhang

Recent advances in deep learning and Transformers have driven major breakthroughs in robotics by employing techniques such as imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and LLM-based multimodal perception and decision-making. However,…

Many successful methods to learn dynamical systems from data have recently been introduced. However, ensuring that the inferred dynamics preserve known constraints, such as conservation laws or restrictions on the allowed system states,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Alistair White , Niki Kilbertus , Maximilian Gelbrecht , Niklas Boers

The well-known generalization problem hinders the application of artificial neural networks in continuous-time prediction tasks with varying latent dynamics. In sharp contrast, biological systems can neatly adapt to evolving environments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Jindou Jia , Zihan Yang , Meng Wang , Kexin Guo , Jianfei Yang , Xiang Yu , Lei Guo

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a prevailing tool for learning physical dynamics. However, they still encounter several challenges: 1) Physical laws abide by symmetry, which is a vital inductive bias accounting for model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Jiaqi Han , Wenbing Huang , Hengbo Ma , Jiachen Li , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

We propose a learning paradigm for numerical approximation of differential invariants of planar curves. Deep neural-networks' (DNNs) universal approximation properties are utilized to estimate geometric measures. The proposed framework is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Roy Velich , Ron Kimmel

Equivariant neural networks provide a principled framework for incorporating symmetry into learning architectures and have been extensively analyzed through the lens of their separation power, that is, the ability to distinguish inputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Marco Pacini , Gabriele Santin , Bruno Lepri , Shubhendu Trivedi

Many machine learning problems involve regressing variables on a non-Euclidean manifold -- e.g. a discrete probability distribution, or the 6D pose of an object. One way to tackle these problems through gradient-based learning is to use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Romain Brégier

Unsupervised deep metric learning (UDML) focuses on learning a semantic representation space using only unlabeled data. This challenging problem requires accurately estimating the similarity between data points, which is used to supervise a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Shubhang Bhatnagar , Narendra Ahuja

We introduce steerable neural ordinary differential equations on homogeneous spaces $M=G/H$. These models constitute a novel geometric extension of manifold neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs) that transport associated feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Emma Andersdotter , Daniel Persson , Fredrik Ohlsson

Even though auto-encoders (AEs) have the desirable property of learning compact representations without labels and have been widely applied to out-of-distribution (OoD) detection, they are generally still poorly understood and are used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Cosmin I. Bercea , Daniel Rueckert , Julia A. Schnabel

Neural ordinary differential equations (ODEs) have attracted much attention as continuous-time counterparts of deep residual neural networks (NNs), and numerous extensions for recurrent NNs have been proposed. Since the 1980s, ODEs have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Kazuki Irie , Francesco Faccio , Jürgen Schmidhuber