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Canonicalization provides an architecture-agnostic method for enforcing equivariance, with generalizations such as frame-averaging recently gaining prominence as a lightweight and flexible alternative to equivariant architectures. Recent…

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Canonicalization is a widely used strategy in equivariant machine learning, enforcing symmetry in neural networks by mapping each input to a standard form. Yet, it often introduces discontinuities that can affect stability during training,…

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Symmetry-based neural networks often constrain the architecture in order to achieve invariance or equivariance to a group of transformations. In this paper, we propose an alternative that avoids this architectural constraint by learning to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Sékou-Oumar Kaba , Arnab Kumar Mondal , Yan Zhang , Yoshua Bengio , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

Many machine learning models leverage group invariance which is enjoyed with a wide-range of applications. For exploiting an invariance structure, one common approach is known as \emph{frame averaging}. One popular example of frame…

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Equivariant neural networks offer strong inductive biases for learning from molecular and geometric data but often rely on specialized, computationally expensive tensor operations. We present a framework to transfers existing tensor field…

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This work introduces a novel approach to achieving architecture-agnostic equivariance in deep learning, particularly addressing the limitations of traditional layerwise equivariant architectures and the inefficiencies of the existing…

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Many generative tasks in chemistry and science involve distributions invariant to group symmetries (e.g., permutation and rotation). A common strategy enforces invariance and equivariance through architectural constraints such as…

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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…

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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…

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Incorporating group symmetries via equivariance into neural networks has emerged as a robust approach for overcoming the efficiency and data demands of modern deep learning. While most existing approaches, such as group convolutions and…

We consider achieving equivariance in machine learning systems via frame averaging. Current frame averaging methods involve a costly sum over large frames or rely on sampling-based approaches that only yield approximate equivariance. Here,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yuchao Lin , Jacob Helwig , Shurui Gui , Shuiwang Ji

Generative modeling of symmetric densities has a range of applications in AI for science, from drug discovery to physics simulations. The existing generative modeling paradigm for invariant densities combines an invariant prior with an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Kusha Sareen , Daniel Levy , Arnab Kumar Mondal , Sékou-Oumar Kaba , Tara Akhound-Sadegh , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

While invariant architectures are standard for processing symmetric data, there is growing interest in achieving invariance by applying group averaging or canonization to non-invariant backbones. However, the theoretical generalization…

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Visual Imitation learning has achieved remarkable progress in robotic manipulation, yet generalization to unseen objects, scene layouts, and camera viewpoints remains a key challenge. Recent advances address this by using 3D point clouds,…

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Manifold learning flows are a class of generative modelling techniques that assume a low-dimensional manifold description of the data. The embedding of such a manifold into the high-dimensional space of the data is achieved via learnable…

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Conventional and deep learning-based methods have shown great potential in the medical imaging domain, as means for deriving diagnostic, prognostic, and predictive biomarkers, and by contributing to precision medicine. However, these…

In numerous applications of geometric deep learning, the studied systems exhibit spatial symmetries and it is desirable to enforce these. For the symmetry of global rotations and reflections, this means that the model should be equivariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Peter Lippmann , Gerrit Gerhartz , Roman Remme , Fred A. Hamprecht

The task of shape space learning involves mapping a train set of shapes to and from a latent representation space with good generalization properties. Often, real-world collections of shapes have symmetries, which can be defined as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Matan Atzmon , Koki Nagano , Sanja Fidler , Sameh Khamis , Yaron Lipman

Many successful deep learning architectures are equivariant to certain transformations in order to conserve parameters and improve generalization: most famously, convolution layers are equivariant to shifts of the input. This approach only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Allan Zhou , Tom Knowles , Chelsea Finn

The quest for robust and generalizable machine learning models has driven recent interest in exploiting symmetries through equivariant neural networks. In the context of PDE solvers, recent works have shown that Lie point symmetries can be…

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