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Symmetry-informed machine learning can exhibit advantages over machine learning which fails to account for symmetry. In the context of continuous symmetry detection, current state of the art experiments are largely limited to detecting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-13 Ben Shaw , Sasidhar Kunapuli , Abram Magner , Kevin R. Moon

Symmetry is fundamental to understanding physical systems and can improve performance and sample efficiency in machine learning. Both pursuits require knowledge of the underlying symmetries in data, yet discovering these symmetries…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yuxuan Chen , Jung Yeon Park , Floor Eijkelboom , Jianke Yang , Jan-Willem van de Meent , Lawson L. S. Wong , Robin Walters

Equivariant neural networks require explicit knowledge of the symmetry group. Automatic symmetry discovery methods aim to relax this constraint and learn invariance and equivariance from data. However, existing symmetry discovery methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Jianke Yang , Nima Dehmamy , Robin Walters , Rose Yu

We propose a simple method to identify a continuous Lie algebra symmetry in a dataset through regression by an artificial neural network. Our proposal takes advantage of the $ \mathcal{O}(\epsilon^2)$ scaling of the output variable under…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-01 Sean Craven , Djuna Croon , Daniel Cutting , Rachel Houtz

What are the symmetries of a dataset? Whereas the symmetries of an individual data element can be characterized by its invariance under various transformations, the symmetries of an ensemble of data elements are ambiguous due to Jacobian…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-05 Krish Desai , Benjamin Nachman , Jesse Thaler

Recent work has applied supervised deep learning to derive continuous symmetry transformations that preserve the data labels and to obtain the corresponding algebras of symmetry generators. This letter introduces two improved algorithms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-12 Roy T. Forestano , Konstantin T. Matchev , Katia Matcheva , Alexander Roman , Eyup B. Unlu , Sarunas Verner

Symmetry in differential equations reveals invariances and offers a powerful means to reduce model complexity. Lie group analysis characterizes these symmetries through infinitesimal generators, which provide a local, linear criterion for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Max Kreider , John Harlim , Daning Huang

We introduce an approach based on moving frames for polygon recognition and symmetry detection. We present detailed algorithms for recognition of polygons modulo the special Euclidean, Euclidean, equi-affine, skewed-affine and similarity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mireille Boutin

Symmetries are ubiquitous across all kinds of objects, whether in nature or in man-made creations. While these symmetries may seem intuitive to the human eye, detecting them with a machine is nontrivial due to the vast search space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Jihyeon Je , Jiayi Liu , Guandao Yang , Boyang Deng , Shengqu Cai , Gordon Wetzstein , Or Litany , Leonidas Guibas

We introduce a machine-learning approach (denoted Symmetry Seeker Neural Network) capable of automatically discovering discrete symmetry groups in physical systems. This method identifies the finite set of parameter transformations that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Pablo Calvo-Barlés , Sergio G. Rodrigo , Eduardo Sánchez-Burillo , Luis Martín-Moreno

Equivariant neural networks incorporate symmetries into their architecture, achieving higher generalization performance. However, constructing equivariant neural networks typically requires prior knowledge of data types and symmetries,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Lexiang Hu , Yikang Li , Zhouchen Lin

Automated symmetry detection is still a difficult task in 2021. However, it has applications in computer vision, and it also plays an important part in understanding art. This paper focuses on aiding the latter by comparing different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Koen Ponse , Anna V. Kononova , Maria Loleyt , Bas van Stein

Symmetry is present throughout nature and continues to play an increasingly central role in physics and machine learning. Fundamental symmetries, such as Poincar\'{e} invariance, allow physical laws discovered in laboratories on Earth to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Samuel E. Otto , Nicholas Zolman , J. Nathan Kutz , Steven L. Brunton

Symmetry is a key feature observed in nature (from flowers and leaves, to butterflies and birds) and in human-made objects (from paintings and sculptures, to manufactured objects and architectural design). Rotational, translational, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Felice De Luca , Md Iqbal Hossain , Stephen Kobourov

Continuous symmetries are fundamental to many scientific and learning problems, yet they are often unknown a priori. Existing symmetry discovery approaches typically search directly in the space of transformation generators or rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Pavan Karjol , Kumar Shubham , Prathosh AP

We develop a new unsupervised symmetry learning method that starts with raw data and provides the minimal generator of an underlying Lie group of symmetries, together with a symmetry-equivariant representation of the data, which turns the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Onur Efe , Arkadas Ozakin

Deep learning was recently successfully used in deriving symmetry transformations that preserve important physics quantities. Being completely agnostic, these techniques postpone the identification of the discovered symmetries to a later…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-15 Roy T. Forestano , Konstantin T. Matchev , Katia Matcheva , Alexander Roman , Eyup B. Unlu , Sarunas Verner

The problem of detecting and quantifying the presence of symmetries in datasets is useful for model selection, generative modeling, and data analysis, amongst others. While existing methods for hard-coding transformations in neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Alex Gabel , Victoria Klein , Riccardo Valperga , Jeroen S. W. Lamb , Kevin Webster , Rick Quax , Efstratios Gavves

Anomalies are samples that significantly deviate from the rest of the data and their detection plays a major role in building machine learning models that can be reliably used in applications such as data-driven design and novelty…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-19 Amin Yousefpour , Mehdi Shishehbor , Zahra Zanjani Foumani , Ramin Bostanabad

Symmetry is a fundamental concept that has been extensively studied, yet detecting it in complex scenes remains a significant challenge in computer vision. Recent heatmap-based approaches can localize potential regions of symmetry axes but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Wongyun Yu , Ahyun Seo , Minsu Cho
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