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While deep learning (DL) architectures like convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have enabled effective solutions in image denoising, in general their implementations overly rely on training data, lack interpretability, and require tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Huy Vu , Gene Cheung , Yonina C. Eldar

Various classes of Graph Neural Networks (GNN) have been proposed and shown to be successful in a wide range of applications with graph structured data. In this paper, we propose a theoretical framework able to compare the expressive power…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Waïss Azizian , Marc Lelarge

Graph machine learning architectures are typically tailored to specific tasks on specific datasets, which hinders their broader applicability. This has led to a new quest in graph machine learning: how to build graph foundation models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Ben Finkelshtein , İsmail İlkan Ceylan , Michael Bronstein , Ron Levie

The purpose of this short and simple note is to clarify a common misconception about convolutional neural networks (CNNs). CNNs are made up of convolutional layers which are shift equivariant due to weight sharing. However, convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Nick McGreivy , Ammar Hakim

In this work, we are interested in generalizing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) from low-dimensional regular grids, where image, video and speech are represented, to high-dimensional irregular domains, such as social networks, brain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Michaël Defferrard , Xavier Bresson , Pierre Vandergheynst

We introduce Group equivariant Convolutional Neural Networks (G-CNNs), a natural generalization of convolutional neural networks that reduces sample complexity by exploiting symmetries. G-CNNs use G-convolutions, a new type of layer that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Taco S. Cohen , Max Welling

From early image processing to modern computational imaging, successful models and algorithms have relied on a fundamental property of natural signals: symmetry. Here symmetry refers to the invariance property of signal sets to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Dongdong Chen , Mike Davies , Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Ferdia Sherry , Julián Tachella

This paper presents a novel framework for non-linear equivariant neural network layers on homogeneous spaces. The seminal work of Cohen et al. on equivariant $G$-CNNs on homogeneous spaces characterized the representation theory of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Elias Nyholm , Oscar Carlsson , Maurice Weiler , Daniel Persson

In this work we propose a new neural network architecture that efficiently implements and learns general purpose set-equivariant functions. Such a function f maps a set of entities x = {x1, . . . , xn} from one domain to a set of same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Roland Vollgraf

We present a general theory of Group equivariant Convolutional Neural Networks (G-CNNs) on homogeneous spaces such as Euclidean space and the sphere. Feature maps in these networks represent fields on a homogeneous base space, and layers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Taco Cohen , Mario Geiger , Maurice Weiler

Recent advances in Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNNs) have shown their efficiency for non-Euclidean data on graphs, which often require a large amount of labeled data with high cost. It it thus critical to learn graph feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Xiang Gao , Wei Hu , Guo-Jun Qi

Using symmetry as an inductive bias in deep learning has been proven to be a principled approach for sample-efficient model design. However, the relationship between symmetry and the imperative for equivariance in neural networks is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Sékou-Oumar Kaba , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

The orchestration of agents to optimize a collective objective without centralized control is challenging yet crucial for applications such as controlling autonomous fleets, and surveillance and reconnaissance using sensor networks.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Taos Transue , Bao Wang

Neural Functional Networks (NFNs) have gained increasing interest due to their wide range of applications, including extracting information from implicit representations of data, editing network weights, and evaluating policies. A key…

Conformal symmetries, i.e.\ coordinate transformations that preserve angles, play a key role in many fields, including physics, mathematics, computer vision and (geometric) machine learning. Here we build a neural network that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Maksim Zhdanov , Nabil Iqbal , Erik Bekkers , Patrick Forré

Neural functional networks (NFNs) have recently gained significant attention due to their diverse applications, ranging from predicting network generalization and network editing to classifying implicit neural representation. Previous NFN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Viet-Hoang Tran , Thieu N. Vo , Tho H. Tran , An T. Nguyen , Tan M. Nguyen

Soft, porous mechanical metamaterials exhibit pattern transformations that may have important applications in soft robotics, sound reduction and biomedicine. To design these innovative materials, it is important to be able to simulate them…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-14 Fleur Hendriks , Vlado Menkovski , Martin Doškář , Marc G. D. Geers , Ondřej Rokoš

Several indices used in a factor graph data structure can be permuted without changing the underlying probability distribution. An algorithm that performs inference on a factor graph should ideally be equivariant or invariant to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Fan-Yun Sun , Jonathan Kuck , Hao Tang , Stefano Ermon

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been successful in processing data signals that are uniformly sampled in the spatial domain (e.g., images). However, most data signals do not natively exist on a grid, and in the process of being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Chiyu "Max" Jiang , Dequan Wang , Jingwei Huang , Philip Marcus , Matthias Nießner

In this paper, we introduce group convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) equivariant to color variation. GCNNs have been designed for a variety of geometric transformations from 2D and 3D rotation groups, to semi-groups such as scale.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yulong Yang , Felix O'Mahony , Christine Allen-Blanchette