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The principle of translation equivariance (if an input image is translated an output image should be translated by the same amount), led to the development of convolutional neural networks that revolutionized machine vision. Other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zachary Schlamowitz , Andrew Bennecke , Daniel J. Tward

The evolution of a deep neural network trained by the gradient descent can be described by its neural tangent kernel (NTK) as introduced in [20], where it was proven that in the infinite width limit the NTK converges to an explicit limiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Jiaoyang Huang , Horng-Tzer Yau

A seminal work [Jacot et al., 2018] demonstrated that training a neural network under specific parameterization is equivalent to performing a particular kernel method as width goes to infinity. This equivalence opened a promising direction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Eugene Golikov , Eduard Pokonechnyy , Vladimir Korviakov

In many machine learning tasks, known symmetries can be used as an inductive bias to improve model performance. In this paper, we consider learning group equivariance through training with data augmentation. We summarize results from a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-11 Oskar Nordenfors , Axel Flinth

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

Unsupervised ensemble learning emerged to address the challenge of combining multiple learners' predictions without access to ground truth labels or additional data. This paradigm is crucial in scenarios where evaluating individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Ariel Maymon , Yanir Buznah , Uri Shaham

We study the statistical-computational trade-offs for learning with exact invariances (or symmetries) using kernel regression. Traditional methods, such as data augmentation, group averaging, canonicalization, and frame-averaging, either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ashkan Soleymani , Behrooz Tahmasebi , Stefanie Jegelka , Patrick Jaillet

While neural networks have demonstrated impressive performance across various tasks, accurately quantifying uncertainty in their predictions is essential to ensure their trustworthiness and enable widespread adoption in critical systems.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-11 Joseph Wilson , Chris van der Heide , Liam Hodgkinson , Fred Roosta

Quantum tangent kernel methods provide an efficient approach to analyzing the performance of quantum machine learning models in the infinite-width limit, which is of crucial importance in designing appropriate circuit architectures for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-10 Li-Wei Yu , Weikang Li , Qi Ye , Zhide Lu , Zizhao Han , Dong-Ling Deng

Quantum mechanics is 'emergent' if a statistical treatment of large scale phenomena in a locally deterministic theory requires the use of quantum operators. These quantum operators may allow for symmetry transformations that are not present…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Gerard 't Hooft

State-of-the-art deep learning systems often require large amounts of data and computation. For this reason, leveraging known or unknown structure of the data is paramount. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are successful examples of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Carlos Esteves

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…

We develop a theory of category-equivariant neural networks (CENNs) that unifies group/groupoid-equivariant networks, poset/lattice-equivariant networks, graph and sheaf neural networks. Equivariance is formulated as naturality in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Yoshihiro Maruyama

Given large datasets and sufficient compute, is it beneficial to design neural architectures for the structure and symmetries of each problem? Or is it more efficient to learn them from data? We study empirically how equivariant and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Johann Brehmer , Sönke Behrends , Pim de Haan , Taco Cohen

Kernels derived from deep neural networks (DNNs) in the infinite-width regime provide not only high performance in a range of machine learning tasks but also new theoretical insights into DNN training dynamics and generalization. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Sina Alemohammad , Randall Balestriero , Zichao Wang , Richard Baraniuk

Deep neural networks have amply demonstrated their prowess but estimating the reliability of their predictions remains challenging. Deep Ensembles are widely considered as being one of the best methods for generating uncertainty estimates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Nikita Durasov , Timur Bagautdinov , Pierre Baque , Pascal Fua

We present a constructive universal approximation theorem for learning machines equipped with joint-group-equivariant feature maps, called the joint-equivariant machines, based on the group representation theory. ``Constructive'' here…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sho Sonoda , Yuka Hashimoto , Isao Ishikawa , Masahiro Ikeda

Ensembling multiple Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is a simple and effective way to improve top-line metrics and to outperform a larger single model. In this work, we go beyond top-line metrics and instead explore the impact of ensembling on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-22 Wei-Yin Ko , Daniel D'souza , Karina Nguyen , Randall Balestriero , Sara Hooker

Data augmentation is a powerful mechanism in equivariant machine learning, encouraging symmetry by training networks to produce consistent outputs under transformed inputs. Yet, effective augmentation typically requires the underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Eduardo Santos-Escriche , Ya-Wei Eileen Lin , Stefanie Jegelka

Recent work introduced the epinet as a new approach to uncertainty modeling in deep learning. An epinet is a small neural network added to traditional neural networks, which, together, can produce predictive distributions. In particular,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Xiuyuan Lu , Ian Osband , Seyed Mohammad Asghari , Sven Gowal , Vikranth Dwaracherla , Zheng Wen , Benjamin Van Roy