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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

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 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…

Why are state-of-the-art Vision Transformers (ViTs) not designed to exploit natural geometric symmetries such as 90-degree rotations and reflections? In this paper, we argue that there is no fundamental reason, and what has been missing is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 David Nordström , Johan Edstedt , Fredrik Kahl , Georg Bökman

This work is about understanding the impact of invariance and equivariance on generalisation in supervised learning. We use the perspective afforded by an averaging operator to show that for any predictor that is not equivariant, there is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Hayder Elesedy

The effectiveness of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has been substantially attributed to their built-in property of translation equivariance. However, CNNs do not have embedded mechanisms to handle other types of transformations. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Ivan Sosnovik , Michał Szmaja , Arnold Smeulders

Equivariant neural networks have shown improved performance, expressiveness and sample complexity on symmetrical domains. But for some specific symmetries, representations, and choice of coordinates, the most common point-wise activations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Marco Pacini , Xiaowen Dong , Bruno Lepri , Gabriele Santin

Many problems in computer vision require dealing with sparse, unordered data in the form of point clouds. Permutation-equivariant networks have become a popular solution-they operate on individual data points with simple perceptrons and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Weiwei Sun , Wei Jiang , Eduard Trulls , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Kwang Moo Yi

We propose an algorithm for meta-learning that is model-agnostic, in the sense that it is compatible with any model trained with gradient descent and applicable to a variety of different learning problems, including classification,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Chelsea Finn , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

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

Recent efforts on solving inverse problems in imaging via deep neural networks use architectures inspired by a fixed number of iterations of an optimization method. The number of iterations is typically quite small due to difficulties in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Davis Gilton , Gregory Ongie , Rebecca Willett

Computational materials discovery is limited by the high cost of first-principles calculations. Machine learning (ML) potentials that predict energies from crystal structures are promising, but existing methods face computational…

Recent progress in deep learning-based models has improved photo-realistic (or perceptual) single-image super-resolution significantly. However, despite their powerful performance, many methods are difficult to apply to real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Namhyuk Ahn , Byungkon Kang , Kyung-Ah Sohn

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

Imitation learning is a class of promising policy learning algorithms that is free from many practical issues with reinforcement learning, such as the reward design issue and the exploration hardness. However, the current imitation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Zhao-Heng Yin , Weirui Ye , Qifeng Chen , Yang Gao

Robotic manipulation systems are increasingly deployed across diverse domains. Yet existing multi-modal learning frameworks lack inherent guarantees of geometric consistency, struggling to handle spatial transformations such as rotations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Jian Deng , Yuandong Wang , Yangfu Zhu , Tao Feng , Tianyu Wo , Zhenzhou Shao

Vision Transformer (ViT) has achieved remarkable performance in computer vision. However, positional encoding in ViT makes it substantially difficult to learn the intrinsic equivariance in data. Initial attempts have been made on designing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Renjun Xu , Kaifan Yang , Ke Liu , Fengxiang He

Success of machine learning (ML) in the modern world is largely determined by abundance of data. However at many industrial and scientific problems, amount of data is limited. Application of ML methods to data-scarce scientific problems can…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-06-13 I. Schurov , D. Alforov , M. Katsnelson , A. Bagrov , A. Itin

Masked image modeling, an emerging self-supervised pre-training method, has shown impressive success across numerous downstream vision tasks with Vision transformers. Its underlying idea is simple: a portion of the input image is masked out…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Siyuan Li , Di Wu , Fang Wu , Zelin Zang , Stan. Z. Li

The study of the volume of big line bundles on a complex projective manifold M has been one of the main veins in the recent interest in the asymptotic properties of linear series. In this article, we consider an equivariant version of this…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-25 Alberto Della Vedova , Roberto Paoletti