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Variational quantum machine learning is an extensively studied application of near-term quantum computers. The success of variational quantum learning models crucially depends on finding a suitable parametrization of the model that encodes…

We prove an impossibility result, which in the context of function learning says the following: under certain conditions, it is impossible to simultaneously learn symmetries and functions equivariant under them using an ansatz consisting of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-19 Vasco Portilheiro

In recent years the use of convolutional layers to encode an inductive bias (translational equivariance) in neural networks has proven to be a very fruitful idea. The successes of this approach have motivated a line of research into…

Traditional supervised learning aims to learn an unknown mapping by fitting a function to a set of input-output pairs with a fixed dimension. The fitted function is then defined on inputs of the same dimension. However, in many settings,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Eitan Levin , Mateo Díaz

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

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are commonly described as being permutation equivariant with respect to node relabeling in the graph. This symmetry of GNNs is often compared to the translation equivariance of Euclidean convolution neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-20 Ningyuan Huang , Ron Levie , Soledad Villar

Recently, a variety of new equivariant neural network model architectures have been proposed that generalize better over rotational and reflectional symmetries than standard models. These models are relevant to robotics because many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Dian Wang , Robin Walters , Xupeng Zhu , Robert Platt

Supervised learning with deep models has tremendous potential for applications in materials science. Recently, graph neural networks have been used in this context, drawing direct inspiration from models for molecules. However, materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-18 Sékou-Oumar Kaba , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

Analyzing scalar and vector fields on the sphere, such as temperature or wind speed and direction on Earth, is a difficult task. Models should respect both the rotational symmetries of the sphere and the inherent symmetries of the vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Francesco Ballerin , Nello Blaser , Erlend Grong

Euclidean deep learning is often inadequate for addressing real-world signals where the representation space is irregular and curved with complex topologies. Interpreting the geometric properties of such feature spaces has become paramount…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Ramzan Basheer , Deepak Mishra

Recent progress in deep learning has been driven by increasingly larger models. However, their computational and energy demands have grown proportionally, creating significant barriers to their deployment and to a wider adoption of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Pedro Savarese

In machine learning datasets with symmetries, the paradigm for backward compatibility with symmetry-breaking has been to relax equivariant architectural constraints, engineering extra weights to differentiate symmetries of interest.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Haozhe Huang , Leo Kaixuan Cheng , Kaiwen Chen , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Success of machine learning (ML) in the modern world is largely determined by abundance of data. However at many industrial and scientific problems, amount of data is limited. Application of ML methods to data-scarce scientific problems can…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-06-13 I. Schurov , D. Alforov , M. Katsnelson , A. Bagrov , A. Itin

Many scientific problems require to process data in the form of geometric graphs. Unlike generic graph data, geometric graphs exhibit symmetries of translations, rotations, and/or reflections. Researchers have leveraged such inductive bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Jiaqi Han , Yu Rong , Tingyang Xu , Wenbing Huang

Many learning tasks, including learning potential energy surfaces from ab initio calculations, involve global spatial symmetries and permutational symmetry between atoms or general particles. Equivariant graph neural networks are a standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Zimu Li , Zihan Pengmei , Han Zheng , Erik Thiede , Junyu Liu , Risi Kondor

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

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

The principle of equivariance to symmetry transformations enables a theoretically grounded approach to neural network architecture design. Equivariant networks have shown excellent performance and data efficiency on vision and medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Taco S. Cohen , Maurice Weiler , Berkay Kicanaoglu , Max Welling

Subsampling is used in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in the form of pooling or strided convolutions, to reduce the spatial dimensions of feature maps and to allow the receptive fields to grow exponentially with depth. However, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Jin Xu , Hyunjik Kim , Tom Rainforth , Yee Whye Teh

In this work we investigate how to achieve equivariance to input transformations in deep networks, purely from data, without being given a model of those transformations. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), for example, are equivariant to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Jianbo Jiao , João F. Henriques