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In recent years, neural implicit representations have made remarkable progress in modeling of 3D shapes with arbitrary topology. In this work, we address two key limitations of such representations, in failing to capture local 3D geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Yunlu Chen , Basura Fernando , Hakan Bilen , Matthias Nießner , Efstratios Gavves

We present a simple non-generative approach to deep representation learning that seeks equivariant deep embedding through simple objectives. In contrast to existing equivariant networks, our transformation coding approach does not constrain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Mehran Shakerinava , Arnab Kumar Mondal , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

We propose a novel approach for performing convolution of signals on curved surfaces and show its utility in a variety of geometric deep learning applications. Key to our construction is the notion of directional functions defined on the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Adrien Poulenard , Maks Ovsjanikov

Data with geometric structure is ubiquitous in machine learning often arising from fundamental symmetries in a domain, such as permutation-invariance in graphs and translation-invariance in images. Group-convolutional architectures, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Bobak T. Kiani , Lukas Fesser , Melanie Weber

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

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

Rotational symmetry is a defining feature of many tomography systems, including computed tomography (CT) and emission computed tomography (ECT), where detectors are arranged in a circular or periodically rotating configuration. This study…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Yaogong Zhang , Fang-Fang Yin , Lei Zhang

Despite the importance of image representations such as histograms of oriented gradients and deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), our theoretical understanding of them remains limited. Aiming at filling this gap, we investigate three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Karel Lenc , Andrea Vedaldi

Learning representations through deep generative modeling is a powerful approach for dynamical modeling to discover the most simplified and compressed underlying description of the data, to then use it for other tasks such as prediction.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Bahar Azari , Deniz Erdoğmuş

Group equivariant and steerable convolutional neural networks (regular and steerable G-CNNs) have recently emerged as a very effective model class for learning from signal data such as 2D and 3D images, video, and other data where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Taco S. Cohen , Mario Geiger , Maurice Weiler

Spherical equivariant graph neural networks (EGNNs) provide a principled framework for learning on three-dimensional molecular and biomolecular systems, where predictions must respect the rotational symmetries inherent in physics. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sophia Tang

PDE-based Group Convolutional Neural Networks (PDE-G-CNNs) use solvers of evolution PDEs as substitutes for the conventional components in G-CNNs. PDE-G-CNNs can offer several benefits simultaneously: fewer parameters, inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Gijs Bellaard , Sei Sakata , Bart M. N. Smets , Remco Duits

We introduce group crosscoders, an extension of crosscoders that systematically discover and analyse symmetrical features in neural networks. While neural networks often develop equivariant representations without explicit architectural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Liv Gorton

Group equivariance (e.g. SE(3) equivariance) is a critical physical symmetry in science, from classical and quantum physics to computational biology. It enables robust and accurate prediction under arbitrary reference transformations. In…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Weitao Du , He Zhang , Yuanqi Du , Qi Meng , Wei Chen , Bin Shao , Tie-Yan Liu

We propose a framework for rotation and translation covariant deep learning using $SE(2)$ group convolutions. The group product of the special Euclidean motion group $SE(2)$ describes how a concatenation of two roto-translations results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Erik J Bekkers , Maxime W Lafarge , Mitko Veta , Koen AJ Eppenhof , Josien PW Pluim , Remco Duits

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

Extending the translation equivariance property of convolutional neural networks to larger symmetry groups has been shown to reduce sample complexity and enable more discriminative feature learning. Further, exploiting additional symmetries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Lisa Weijler , Pedro Hermosilla

Convolutional neural networks revolutionized computer vision and natrual language processing. Their efficiency, as compared to fully connected neural networks, has its origin in the architecture, where convolutions reflect the translation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Patrick Krüger , Hanno Gottschalk

In this study, we introduce a method for learning group (known or unknown) equivariant functions by learning the associated quadratic form $x^T A x$ corresponding to the group from the data. Certain groups, known as orthogonal groups,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Pavan Karjol , Vivek V Kashyap , Rohan Kashyap , Prathosh A P

The principle of translation equivariance (if an input image is translated an output image should be translated by the same amount), led to the development of convolutional neural networks that revolutionized machine vision. Other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zachary Schlamowitz , Andrew Bennecke , Daniel J. Tward