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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

Employing equivariance in neural networks leads to greater parameter efficiency and improved generalization performance through the encoding of domain knowledge in the architecture; however, the majority of existing approaches require an a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Emmanouil Theodosis , Karim Helwani , Demba Ba

In this paper, we develop a theory about the relationship between $G$-invariant/equivariant functions and deep neural networks for finite group $G$. Especially, for a given $G$-invariant/equivariant function, we construct its universal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Akiyoshi Sannai , Yuuki Takai , Matthieu Cordonnier

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

We introduce so-called functional input neural networks defined on a possibly infinite dimensional weighted space with values also in a possibly infinite dimensional output space. To this end, we use an additive family to map the input…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-03 Christa Cuchiero , Philipp Schmocker , Josef Teichmann

Equivariant neural networks provide a principled framework for incorporating symmetry into learning architectures and have been extensively analyzed through the lens of their separation power, that is, the ability to distinguish inputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Marco Pacini , Gabriele Santin , Bruno Lepri , Shubhendu Trivedi

We introduce Universal Neural Architecture Space (UniNAS), a generic search space for neural architecture search (NAS) which unifies convolutional networks, transformers, and their hybrid architectures under a single, flexible framework.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Ondřej Týbl , Lukáš Neumann

It is commonly believed that the hidden layers of deep neural networks (DNNs) attempt to extract informative features for learning tasks. In this paper, we formalize this intuition by showing that the features extracted by DNN coincide with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Shao-Lun Huang , Xiangxiang Xu , Lizhong Zheng , Gregory W. Wornell

In this work, we formally prove that, under certain conditions, if a neural network is invariant to a finite group then its weights recover the Fourier transform on that group. This provides a mathematical explanation for the emergence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Giovanni Luca Marchetti , Christopher Hillar , Danica Kragic , Sophia Sanborn

Modifications to a neural network's input and output layers are often required to accommodate the specificities of most practical learning tasks. However, the impact of such changes on architecture's approximation capabilities is largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Anastasis Kratsios , Eugene Bilokopytov

Function regression/approximation is a fundamental application of machine learning. Neural networks (NNs) can be easily trained for function regression using a sufficient number of neurons and epochs. The forward-forward learning algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Shivam Padmani , Akshay Joshi

This paper presents a transformative framework for artificial neural networks over graded vector spaces, tailored to model hierarchical and structured data in fields like algebraic geometry and physics. By exploiting the algebraic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Tony Shaska

Large language models are capable of in-context learning, the ability to perform new tasks at test time using a handful of input-output examples, without parameter updates. We develop a universal approximation theory to elucidate how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Gen Li , Yuchen Jiao , Yu Huang , Yuting Wei , Yuxin Chen

We propose a general deep architecture for learning functions on multiple permutation-invariant sets. We also show how to generalize this architecture to sets of elements of any dimension by dimension equivariance. We demonstrate that our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Kira Selby , Ahmad Rashid , Ivan Kobyzev , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Pascal Poupart

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are general-purpose parallel-sequential computers. The program of an RNN is its weight matrix. How to learn useful representations of RNN weights that facilitate RNN analysis as well as downstream tasks?…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Vincent Herrmann , Francesco Faccio , Jürgen Schmidhuber

Neural network force fields have significantly advanced ab initio atomistic simulations across diverse fields. However, their application in the realm of magnetic materials is still in its early stage due to challenges posed by the subtle…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-08 Zilong Yuan , Zhiming Xu , He Li , Xinle Cheng , Honggeng Tao , Zechen Tang , Zhiyuan Zhou , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

The lack of mathematical tractability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has hindered progress towards having a unified convergence analysis of training algorithms, in the general setting. We propose a unified optimization framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Hadi Ghauch , Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei , Carlo Fischione , Mikael Skoglund

In machine learning for fluid mechanics, fully-connected neural network (FNN) only uses the local features for modelling, while the convolutional neural network (CNN) cannot be applied to data on structured/unstructured mesh. In order to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-14 Mengfei Xu , Shufang Song , Xuxiang Sun , Weiwei Zhang

Permutation-invariant, -equivariant, and -covariant functions and anti-symmetric functions are important in quantum physics, computer vision, and other disciplines. Applications often require most or all of the following properties: (a) a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Marcus Hutter

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