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Linear neural network layers that are either equivariant or invariant to permutations of their inputs form core building blocks of modern deep learning architectures. Examples include the layers of DeepSets, as well as linear layers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Charles Godfrey , Michael G. Rawson , Davis Brown , Henry Kvinge

We present a rotation-equivariant unsupervised learning framework for the sparse deconvolution of non-negative scalar fields defined on the unit sphere. Spherical signals with multiple peaks naturally arise in Diffusion MRI (dMRI), where…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-19 Axel Elaldi , Neel Dey , Heejong Kim , Guido Gerig

We propose a novel neural network architecture, the normalized Transformer (nGPT) with representation learning on the hypersphere. In nGPT, all vectors forming the embeddings, MLP, attention matrices and hidden states are unit norm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Ilya Loshchilov , Cheng-Ping Hsieh , Simeng Sun , Boris Ginsburg

Equivariant neural networks incorporate symmetries through group actions, embedding them as an inductive bias to improve performance. Existing methods learn an equivariant action on the latent space, or design architectures that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Riccardo Ali , Pietro Liò , Jamie Vicary

In this paper we show how Group Equivariant Convolutional Neural Networks use subsampling to learn to break equivariance to their symmetries. We focus on 2D rotations and reflections and investigate the impact of broken equivariance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Tom Edixhoven , Attila Lengyel , Jan van Gemert

Deep learning is emerging as a new paradigm for solving inverse imaging problems. However, the deep learning methods often lack the assurance of traditional physics-based methods due to the lack of physical information considerations in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Dongdong Chen , Mike E. Davies

We propose to study equivariance in deep neural networks through parameter symmetries. In particular, given a group $\mathcal{G}$ that acts discretely on the input and output of a standard neural network layer $\phi_{W}: \Re^{M} \to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-15 Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Jeff Schneider , Barnabas Poczos

Many recent efforts have been devoted to designing sophisticated deep learning structures, obtaining revolutionary results on benchmark datasets. The success of these deep learning methods mostly relies on an enormous volume of labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Jiaji Huang , Qiang Qiu , Robert Calderbank , Guillermo Sapiro

In many real-world applications of regression, conditional probability estimation, and uncertainty quantification, exploiting symmetries rooted in physics or geometry can dramatically improve generalization and sample efficiency. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Daniel Ordoñez-Apraez , Vladimir Kostić , Alek Fröhlich , Vivien Brandt , Karim Lounici , Massimiliano Pontil

We present the Topology Transformation Equivariant Representation learning, a general paradigm of self-supervised learning for node representations of graph data to enable the wide applicability of Graph Convolutional Neural Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Xiang Gao , Wei Hu , Guo-Jun Qi

We propose a message passing neural network architecture designed to be equivariant to column and row permutations of a matrix. We illustrate its advantages over traditional architectures like multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs), convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Augusto Peres , Eduardo Dias , Luís Sarmento , Hugo Penedones

Symmetry is present in many tasks in computer vision, where the same class of objects can appear transformed, e.g. rotated due to different camera orientations, or scaled due to perspective. The knowledge of such symmetries in data coupled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Mateus Sangalli , Samy Blusseau , Santiago Velasco-Forero , Jesús Angulo

Group equivariance has emerged as a valuable inductive bias in deep learning, enhancing generalization, data efficiency, and robustness. Classically, group equivariant methods require the groups of interest to be known beforehand, which may…

The rising adoption of machine learning in high energy physics and lattice field theory necessitates the re-evaluation of common methods that are widely used in computer vision, which, when applied to problems in physics, can lead to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-10-12 Srinath Bulusu , Matteo Favoni , Andreas Ipp , David I. Müller , Daniel Schuh

Group equivariance (e.g. SE(3) equivariance) is a critical physical symmetry in science, from classical and quantum physics to computational biology. It enables robust and accurate prediction under arbitrary reference transformations. In…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Weitao Du , He Zhang , Yuanqi Du , Qi Meng , Wei Chen , Bin Shao , Tie-Yan Liu

Detecting robust keypoints from an image is an integral part of many computer vision problems, and the characteristic orientation and scale of keypoints play an important role for keypoint description and matching. Existing learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Jongmin Lee , Byungjin Kim , Minsu Cho

The subject of deep learning has recently attracted users of machine learning from various disciplines, including: medical diagnosis and bioinformatics, financial market analysis and online advertisement, speech and handwriting recognition,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Charles K. Chui , Shao-Bo Lin , Ding-Xuan Zhou

The ever-growing deep learning technologies are making revolutionary changes for modern life. However, conventional computing architectures are designed to process sequential and digital programs, being extremely burdened with performing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Yuyao Huang , Tingzhao Fu , Honghao Huang , Sigang Yang , Hongwei Chen

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have attracted much attention recently, and have shown to be able to recognize thousands of object categories in natural image databases. Their architecture is somewhat similar to that of the human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Saeed Reza Kheradpisheh , Masoud Ghodrati , Mohammad Ganjtabesh , Timothée Masquelier

Numerous invariant (or equivariant) neural networks have succeeded in handling invariant data such as point clouds and graphs. However, a generalization theory for the neural networks has not been well developed, because several essential…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-22 Akiyoshi Sannai , Masaaki Imaizumi , Makoto Kawano