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We propose a Transformer neural network architecture specifically designed for lattice QCD, focusing on preserving the fundamental symmetries required in lattice gauge theory. The proposed architecture is gauge covariant/equivariant,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-01-29 Yuki Nagai , Hiroshi Ohno , Akio Tomiya

Latent representations are used extensively for downstream tasks, such as visualization, interpolation or feature extraction of deep learning models. Invariant and equivariant neural networks are powerful and well-established models for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Andreas Abildtrup Hansen , Anna Calissano , Aasa Feragen

Discrete translational symmetry plays a fundamental role in condensed matter physics and lattice gauge theories, enabling the analysis of systems that would otherwise be intractable. Despite this, many open problems remain. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Joris Kattemölle , Guido Burkard

While Transformer architectures have show remarkable success, they are bound to the computation of all pairwise interactions of input element and thus suffer from limited scalability. Recent work has been successful by avoiding the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Max Horn , Kumar Shridhar , Elrich Groenewald , Philipp F. M. Baumann

I present a novel equivariant neural network architecture for the large-scale spin dynamics simulation of the Kondo lattice model. This neural network mainly consists of tensor-product-based convolution layers and ensures two equivariances:…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-12 Yu Miyazaki

Equivariance is central to graph generative models, as it ensures the model respects the permutation symmetry of graphs. However, strict equivariance can increase computational cost due to added architectural constraints, and can slow down…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Benjamin Honoré , Alba Carballo-Castro , Yiming Qin , Pascal Frossard

LLMs demonstrate significant inference capacities in complicated machine learning tasks, using the Transformer model as its backbone. Motivated by the limited understanding of such models on the unsupervised learning problems, we study the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-11 Yihan He , Hong-Yu Chen , Yuan Cao , Jianqing Fan , Han Liu

Incorporating inductive biases is a promising approach for tackling challenging robot learning domains with sample-efficient solutions. This paper identifies partially observable domains where symmetries can be a useful inductive bias for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Hai Nguyen , Andrea Baisero , David Klee , Dian Wang , Robert Platt , Christopher Amato

Symmetry learning has proven to be an effective approach for extracting the hidden structure of data, with the concept of equivariance relation playing the central role. However, most of the current studies are built on architectural theory…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-15 Masanori Koyama , Kenji Fukumizu , Kohei Hayashi , Takeru Miyato

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

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

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

Equivariance guarantees that a model's predictions capture key symmetries in data. When an image is translated or rotated, an equivariant model's representation of that image will translate or rotate accordingly. The success of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Nate Gruver , Marc Finzi , Micah Goldblum , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Translation equivariance is a fundamental inductive bias in image restoration, ensuring that translated inputs produce translated outputs. Attention mechanisms in modern restoration transformers undermine this property, adversely impacting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 JiaKui Hu , Zhengjian Yao , Lujia Jin , Hangzhou He , Yanye Lu

Revolutionizing the field of deep learning, Transformer-based models have achieved remarkable performance in many tasks. Recent research has recognized these models are robust to shuffling but are limited to inter-token permutation in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Hengyuan Xu , Liyao Xiang , Hangyu Ye , Dixi Yao , Pengzhi Chu , Baochun Li

The translation equivariance of convolutions can make convolutional neural networks translation equivariant or invariant. Equivariance to other transformations (e.g. rotations, affine transformations, scalings) may also be desirable as soon…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-05 Mateus Sangalli , Samy Blusseau , Santiago Velasco-Forero , Jesus Angulo

Machine learning force fields show great promise in enabling more accurate molecular dynamics simulations compared to manually derived ones. Much of the progress in recent years was driven by exploiting prior knowledge about physical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Andreas Burger , Luca Thiede , Alán Aspuru-Guzik , Nandita Vijaykumar

Equivariant deep learning architectures exploit symmetries in learning problems to improve the sample efficiency of neural-network-based models and their ability to generalise. However, when modelling real-world data, learning problems are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-12 Matthew Ashman , Cristiana Diaconu , Adrian Weller , Wessel Bruinsma , Richard E. Turner

We study the feature-scaled version of the Monte Carlo algorithm with linear function approximation. This algorithm converges to a scale-invariant solution, which is not unduly affected by states having feature vectors with large norms. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Rahul Madhavan , Hemanta Makwana

Group-equivariant quantum models are designed to exploit symmetry and can improve trainability, but it remains unclear how symmetry constraints shape their adversarial robustness. We study this question through a feature-level analysis of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Maureen Krumtünger , Martin Sevior , Muhammad Usman