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Symmetry is present in nature and science. In image processing, kernels for spatial filtering possess some symmetry (e.g. Sobel operators, Gaussian, Laplacian). Convolutional layers in artificial feed-forward neural networks have typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Gregory Dzhezyan , Hubert Cecotti

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) is a data-driven, model-free method capable of discovering complex control strategies for macroscopic objectives in high-dimensional systems, making its application towards flow control promising. Many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Kevin Zeng , Michael D. Graham

Overparameterized models have proven to be powerful tools for solving various machine learning tasks. However, overparameterization often leads to a substantial increase in computational and memory costs, which in turn requires extensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Soo Min Kwon , Zekai Zhang , Dogyoon Song , Laura Balzano , Qing Qu

Recent advances in machine unlearning have focused on developing algorithms to remove specific training samples from a trained model. In contrast, we observe that not all models are equally easy to unlearn. Hence, we introduce a family of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Amber Yijia Zheng , Yu-Shan Tai , Raymond A. Yeh

Recognizing symmetries in data allows for significant boosts in neural network training. In many cases, however, the underlying symmetry is present only in an idealized dataset, and is broken in the training data, due to effects such as…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-13 Edmund Witkowski , Daniel Whiteson

Symmetries (transformations by group actions) are present in many datasets, and leveraging them holds considerable promise for improving predictions in machine learning. In this work, we aim to understand when and how deep networks -- with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Andrea Perin , Stephane Deny

In many physical systems, inputs related by intrinsic system symmetries are mapped to the same output. When inverting such systems, i.e., solving the associated inverse problems, there is no unique solution. This causes fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Kshitij Tayal , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Vipin Kumar , Ju Sun

Inference for state-of-the-art deep neural networks is computationally expensive, making them difficult to deploy on constrained hardware environments. An efficient way to reduce this complexity is to quantize the weight parameters and/or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Julian Faraone , Nicholas Fraser , Michaela Blott , Philip H. W. Leong

Test-time entropy minimization helps adapt a model to novel environments and incentivize its reasoning capability, unleashing the model's potential during inference by allowing it to evolve and improve in real-time using its own…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Guohao Chen , Shuaicheng Niu , Deyu Chen , Jiahao Yang , Zitian Zhang , Mingkui Tan , Pengcheng Wu , Zhiqi Shen

Symmetries are an essential feature of complex networks as they regulate how the graph collective dynamics organizes into clustered states. We here show how to control network symmetries, and how to enforce patterned states of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-24 L. V. Gambuzza , M. Frasca , F. Sorrentino , L. M. Pecora , S. Boccaletti

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

Achieving backward compatibility when rolling out new models can highly reduce costs or even bypass feature re-encoding of existing gallery images for in-production visual retrieval systems. Previous related works usually leverage losses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Qiang Meng , Chixiang Zhang , Xiaoqiang Xu , Feng Zhou

Recent advances in theoretical Deep Learning have introduced geometric properties that occur during training, past the Interpolation Threshold -- where the training error reaches zero. We inquire into the phenomena coined Neural Collapse in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Ido Ben-Shaul , Shai Dekel

Symmetry is a fundamental tool in the exploration of a broad range of complex systems. In machine learning symmetry has been explored in both models and data. In this paper we seek to connect the symmetries arising from the architecture of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Charles Godfrey , Davis Brown , Tegan Emerson , Henry Kvinge

We propose Symmetry-Loss, a brain-inspired algorithmic principle that enforces invariance and equivariance through a differentiable constraint derived from environmental symmetries. The framework models learning as the iterative refinement…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-17 Arif Dönmez

Equivariant neural networks have proven to be effective for tasks with known underlying symmetries. However, optimizing equivariant networks can be tricky and best training practices are less established than for standard networks. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 YuQing Xie , Tess Smidt

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

When planning motions in a configuration space that has underlying symmetries (e.g. when manipulating one or multiple symmetric objects), the ideal planning algorithm should take advantage of those symmetries to produce shorter…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Thomas Cohn , Russ Tedrake

Machine Unlearning aims to remove undesired information from trained models without requiring full retraining from scratch. Despite recent advancements, their underlying loss landscapes and optimization dynamics received less attention. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Jiali Cheng , Hadi Amiri

This paper explores the role of symmetries and reduction in nonlinear control and optimal control systems. The focus of the paper is to give a geometric framework of symmetry reduction of optimal control systems as well as to show how to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-13 Tomoki Ohsawa