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We propose a framework for learning neural scene representations directly from images, without 3D supervision. Our key insight is that 3D structure can be imposed by ensuring that the learned representation transforms like a real 3D scene.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Emilien Dupont , Miguel Angel Bautista , Alex Colburn , Aditya Sankar , Carlos Guestrin , Josh Susskind , Qi Shan

Data arrives at our senses as a continuous stream, smoothly transforming from one instant to the next. These smooth transformations can be viewed as continuous symmetries of the environment that we inhabit, defining equivalence relations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 T. Anderson Keller

This paper introduces a new model to learn graph neural networks equivariant to rotations, translations, reflections and permutations called E(n)-Equivariant Graph Neural Networks (EGNNs). In contrast with existing methods, our work does…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Victor Garcia Satorras , Emiel Hoogeboom , Max Welling

Invariant and equivariant networks have been successfully used for learning images, sets, point clouds, and graphs. A basic challenge in developing such networks is finding the maximal collection of invariant and equivariant linear layers.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Haggai Maron , Heli Ben-Hamu , Nadav Shamir , Yaron Lipman

Estimating the parameters of a model describing a set of observations using a neural network is in general solved in a supervised way. In cases when we do not have access to the model's true parameters this approach can not be applied.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-30 Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo

Equivariance w.r.t. geometric transformations in neural networks improves data efficiency, parameter efficiency and robustness to out-of-domain perspective shifts. When equivariance is not designed into a neural network, the network can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Robert-Jan Bruintjes , Tomasz Motyka , Jan van Gemert

We introduce a novel architecture for graph networks which is equivariant to any transformation in the coordinate embeddings that preserves the distance between neighbouring nodes. In particular, it is equivariant to the Euclidean and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Francesco Farina , Emma Slade

Equivariance is a nice property to have as it produces much more parameter efficient neural architectures and preserves the structure of the input through the feature mapping. Even though some combinations of transformations might never…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 David W. Romero , Mark Hoogendoorn

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

Recent success in training deep neural networks have prompted active investigation into the features learned on their intermediate layers. Such research is difficult because it requires making sense of non-linear computations performed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Yixuan Li , Jason Yosinski , Jeff Clune , Hod Lipson , John Hopcroft

Equivariant networks are specifically designed to ensure consistent behavior with respect to a set of input transformations, leading to higher sample efficiency and more accurate and robust predictions. However, redesigning each component…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Arnab Kumar Mondal , Siba Smarak Panigrahi , Sékou-Oumar Kaba , Sai Rajeswar , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

The set of functions parameterized by a linear fully-connected neural network is a determinantal variety. We investigate the subvariety of functions that are equivariant or invariant under the action of a permutation group. Examples of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Kathlén Kohn , Anna-Laura Sattelberger , Vahid Shahverdi

Augmentation-based self-supervised learning methods have shown remarkable success in self-supervised visual representation learning, excelling in learning invariant features but often neglecting equivariant ones. This limitation reduces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Qin Wang , Kai Krajsek , Hanno Scharr

Incorporating group symmetries via equivariance into neural networks has emerged as a robust approach for overcoming the efficiency and data demands of modern deep learning. While most existing approaches, such as group convolutions and…

In this paper we present a framework for the design and implementation of offset equivariant networks, that is, neural networks that preserve in their output uniform increments in the input. In a suitable color space this kind of networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Marco Cotogni , Claudio Cusano

In this work we propose a new neural network architecture that efficiently implements and learns general purpose set-equivariant functions. Such a function f maps a set of entities x = {x1, . . . , xn} from one domain to a set of same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Roland Vollgraf

It is often said that a deep learning model is "invariant" to some specific type of transformation. However, what is meant by this statement strongly depends on the context in which it is made. In this paper we explore the nature of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Henry Kvinge , Tegan H. Emerson , Grayson Jorgenson , Scott Vasquez , Timothy Doster , Jesse D. Lew

Deep belief networks are used extensively for unsupervised stochastic learning on large datasets. Compared to other deep learning approaches their layer-by-layer learning makes them highly scalable. Unfortunately, the principles by which…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-07-15 Swapnil Nitin Shah

Equivariant neural networks are designed to respect symmetries through their architecture, boosting generalization and sample efficiency when those symmetries are present in the data distribution. Real-world data, however, often departs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Andrei Manolache , Luiz F. O. Chamon , Mathias Niepert

In recent years the use of convolutional layers to encode an inductive bias (translational equivariance) in neural networks has proven to be a very fruitful idea. The successes of this approach have motivated a line of research into…