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In this draft paper, we introduce a novel architecture for graph networks which is equivariant to the Euclidean group in $n$-dimensions. The model is designed to work with graph networks in their general form and can be shown to include…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Emma Slade , Francesco Farina

Most existing neural networks for learning graphs address permutation invariance by conceiving of the network as a message passing scheme, where each node sums the feature vectors coming from its neighbors. We argue that this imposes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Risi Kondor , Hy Truong Son , Horace Pan , Brandon Anderson , Shubhendu Trivedi

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

Message-passing has proved to be an effective way to design graph neural networks, as it is able to leverage both permutation equivariance and an inductive bias towards learning local structures in order to achieve good generalization.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Clement Vignac , Andreas Loukas , Pascal Frossard

Learning to represent and simulate the dynamics of physical systems is a crucial yet challenging task. Existing equivariant Graph Neural Network (GNN) based methods have encapsulated the symmetry of physics, \emph{e.g.}, translations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Liming Wu , Zhichao Hou , Jirui Yuan , Yu Rong , Wenbing Huang

Recent attempts at introducing rotation invariance or equivariance in 3D deep learning approaches have shown promising results, but these methods still struggle to reach the performances of standard 3D neural networks. In this work we study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Hugues Thomas

Designing machine learning architectures for processing neural networks in their raw weight matrix form is a newly introduced research direction. Unfortunately, the unique symmetry structure of deep weight spaces makes this design very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Aviv Navon , Aviv Shamsian , Idan Achituve , Ethan Fetaya , Gal Chechik , Haggai Maron

Equivariance of neural networks to transformations helps to improve their performance and reduce generalization error in computer vision tasks, as they apply to datasets presenting symmetries (e.g. scalings, rotations, translations). The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Mateus Sangalli , Samy Blusseau , Santiago Velasco-Forero , Jesus Angulo

Color is a crucial visual cue readily exploited by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for object recognition. However, CNNs struggle if there is data imbalance between color variations introduced by accidental recording conditions. Color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Attila Lengyel , Ombretta Strafforello , Robert-Jan Bruintjes , Alexander Gielisse , Jan van Gemert

In reinforcement learning (RL), exploiting environmental symmetries can significantly enhance efficiency, robustness, and performance. However, ensuring that the deep RL policy and value networks are respectively equivariant and invariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Mirco Theile , Hongpeng Cao , Marco Caccamo , Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

CoVariance Neural Networks (VNNs) perform convolutions on the graph determined by the covariance matrix of the data, which enables expressive and stable covariance-based learning. However, covariance matrices are typically dense, fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Andrea Cavallo , Samuel Rey , Antonio G. Marques , Elvin Isufi

Given a signed social graph, how can we learn appropriate node representations to infer the signs of missing edges? Signed social graphs have received considerable attention to model trust relationships. Learning node representations is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Jinhong Jung , Jaemin Yoo , U Kang

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

Triangular meshes are widely used to represent three-dimensional objects. As a result, many recent works have address the need for geometric deep learning on 3D mesh. However, we observe that the complexities in many of these architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Thuan Trang , Nhat Khang Ngo , Daniel Levy , Thieu N. Vo , Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Truong Son Hy

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a prevailing tool for learning physical dynamics. However, they still encounter several challenges: 1) Physical laws abide by symmetry, which is a vital inductive bias accounting for model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Jiaqi Han , Wenbing Huang , Hengbo Ma , Jiachen Li , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

Many scientific and geometric problems exhibit general linear symmetries, yet most equivariant neural networks are built for compact groups or simple vector features, limiting their reuse on matrix-valued data such as covariances, inertias,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Chankyo Kim , Sicheng Zhao , Minghan Zhu , Tzu-Yuan Lin , Maani Ghaffari

Weight-space learning studies neural architectures that operate directly on the parameters of other neural networks. Motivated by the growing availability of pretrained models, recent work has demonstrated the effectiveness of weight-space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Adir Dayan , Yam Eitan , Haggai Maron

Reliable training of generative adversarial networks (GANs) typically require massive datasets in order to model complicated distributions. However, in several applications, training samples obey invariances that are \textit{a priori}…

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are effective machine learning models for many graph-related applications. Despite their empirical success, many research efforts focus on the theoretical limitations of GNNs, i.e., the GNNs expressive power.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Bingxu Zhang , Changjun Fan , Shixuan Liu , Kuihua Huang , Xiang Zhao , Jincai Huang , Zhong Liu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown promise in learning unstructured mesh-based simulations of physical systems, including fluid dynamics. In tandem, geometric deep learning principles have informed the development of equivariant…