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$G$-equivariant convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) is a geometric deep learning model for data defined on a homogeneous $G$-space $\mathcal{M}$. GCNNs are designed to respect the global symmetry in $\mathcal{M}$, thereby facilitating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Jimmy Aronsson

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

Equivariant neural networks, whose hidden features transform according to representations of a group G acting on the data, exhibit training efficiency and an improved generalisation performance. In this work, we extend group invariant and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Robin Winter , Marco Bertolini , Tuan Le , Frank Noé , Djork-Arné Clevert

We present group equivariant capsule networks, a framework to introduce guaranteed equivariance and invariance properties to the capsule network idea. Our work can be divided into two contributions. First, we present a generic routing by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Jan Eric Lenssen , Matthias Fey , Pascal Libuschewski

We introduce Clifford Group Equivariant Neural Networks: a novel approach for constructing $\mathrm{O}(n)$- and $\mathrm{E}(n)$-equivariant models. We identify and study the $\textit{Clifford group}$, a subgroup inside the Clifford algebra…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 David Ruhe , Johannes Brandstetter , Patrick Forré

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

Many current approaches to machine learning in particle physics use generic architectures that require large numbers of parameters and disregard underlying physics principles, limiting their applicability as scientific modeling tools. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-27 Alexander Bogatskiy , Timothy Hoffman , David W. Miller , Jan T. Offermann

Gauge symmetries play a key role in physics appearing in areas such as quantum field theories of the fundamental particles and emergent degrees of freedom in quantum materials. Motivated by the desire to efficiently simulate many-body…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-13 Di Luo , Giuseppe Carleo , Bryan K. Clark , James Stokes

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

We survey the mathematical foundations of geometric deep learning, focusing on group equivariant and gauge equivariant neural networks. We develop gauge equivariant convolutional neural networks on arbitrary manifolds $\mathcal{M}$ using…

We present a new class of equivariant neural networks, hereby dubbed Lattice-Equivariant Neural Networks (LENNs), designed to satisfy local symmetries of a lattice structure. Our approach develops within a recently introduced framework…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Giulio Ortali , Alessandro Gabbana , Imre Atmodimedjo , Alessandro Corbetta

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

Despite the success of equivariant neural networks in scientific applications, they require knowing the symmetry group a priori. However, it may be difficult to know which symmetry to use as an inductive bias in practice. Enforcing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Jianke Yang , Robin Walters , Nima Dehmamy , Rose Yu

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

Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) are suggested as one of the quantum algorithms which can be efficiently simulated with a low depth on near-term quantum hardware in the presence of noises. However, their performance highly relies on choosing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Su Yeon Chang , Michele Grossi , Bertrand Le Saux , Sofia Vallecorsa

The introduction of relevant physical information into neural network architectures has become a widely used and successful strategy for improving their performance. In lattice gauge theories, such information can be identified with gauge…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-01-11 Matteo Favoni , Andreas Ipp , David I. Müller

Group symmetry is inherent in a wide variety of data distributions. Data processing that preserves symmetry is described as an equivariant map and often effective in achieving high performance. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-29 Wataru Kumagai , Akiyoshi Sannai

Steerable convolutional neural networks (CNNs) provide a general framework for building neural networks equivariant to translations and transformations of an origin-preserving group $G$, such as reflections and rotations. They rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Maksim Zhdanov , Nico Hoffmann , Gabriele Cesa

Let G be a Lie group, $g = Lie(G)$ - its Lie algebra, $g*$ - the dual vector space and $\widehat G$ - the set of equivalence classes of unitary irreducible representations of $G$. The orbit method [1] establishes a correspondence between…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Dmitry Fuchs , Alexandre Kirillov

We develop a theory of category-equivariant neural networks (CENNs) that unifies group/groupoid-equivariant networks, poset/lattice-equivariant networks, graph and sheaf neural networks. Equivariance is formulated as naturality in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Yoshihiro Maruyama