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A number of machine learning (ML) methods have been proposed recently to maximize model predictive accuracy while enforcing notions of group parity or fairness across sub-populations. We propose a desirable property for these procedures,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Ofir Nachum , Heinrich Jiang

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

Reducing the amount of human supervision is a key problem in machine learning and a natural approach is that of exploiting the relations (structure) among different tasks. This is the idea at the core of multi-task learning. In this context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Carlo Ciliberto , Youssef Mroueh , Tomaso Poggio , Lorenzo Rosasco

Any representation of data involves arbitrary investigator choices. Because those choices are external to the data-generating process, each choice leads to an exact symmetry, corresponding to the group of transformations that takes one…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-29 Soledad Villar , David W. Hogg , Weichi Yao , George A. Kevrekidis , Bernhard Schölkopf

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

Employing equivariance in neural networks leads to greater parameter efficiency and improved generalization performance through the encoding of domain knowledge in the architecture; however, the majority of existing approaches require an a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Emmanouil Theodosis , Karim Helwani , Demba Ba

Group theory has been used in machine learning to provide a theoretically grounded approach for incorporating known symmetry transformations in tasks from robotics to protein modeling. In these applications, equivariant neural networks use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Lucas Laird , Circe Hsu , Asilata Bapat , Robin Walters

We explore the role of group symmetries in binary classification tasks, presenting a novel framework that leverages the principles of Neyman-Pearson optimality. Contrary to the common intuition that larger symmetry groups lead to improved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Michael Spannowsky

We investigate task clustering for deep-learning based multi-task and few-shot learning in a many-task setting. We propose a new method to measure task similarities with cross-task transfer performance matrix for the deep learning scenario.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Jinfeng Yi , Shiyu Chang , Saloni Potdar , Gerald Tesauro , Haoyu Wang , Bowen Zhou

Robots exhibit a rich variety of symmetries arising from their mechanical structure and the properties of their tasks. Although many robotics problems exhibit several symmetries simultaneously, existing approaches typically treat them in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Loizos Hadjiloizou , Rodrigo Pérez-Dattari , Noémie Jaquier

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

Symmetry is an important inductive bias that can improve model robustness and generalization across many deep learning domains. In multi-agent settings, a priori known symmetries have been shown to address a fundamental coordination failure…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Darius Muglich , Johannes Forkel , Elise van der Pol , Jakob Foerster

Steerable convolutional neural networks (SCNNs) enhance task performance by modelling geometric symmetries through equivariance constraints on weights. Yet, unknown or varying symmetries can lead to overconstrained weights and decreased…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Lars Veefkind , Gabriele Cesa

In this paper we explore methods to exploit symmetries for ensuring sample efficiency in reinforcement learning (RL), this problem deserves ever increasing attention with the recent advances in the use of deep networks for complex RL tasks…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-12 Anuj Mahajan , Theja Tulabandhula

Model generalization of the underlying dynamics is critical for achieving data efficiency when learning for robot control. This paper proposes a novel approach for learning dynamics leveraging the symmetry in the underlying robotic system,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Jee-eun Lee , Jaemin Lee , Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay , Luis Sentis

Equivariant neural networks provide a principled framework for incorporating symmetry into learning architectures and have been extensively analyzed through the lens of their separation power, that is, the ability to distinguish inputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Marco Pacini , Gabriele Santin , Bruno Lepri , Shubhendu Trivedi

For nonlinear inverse problems that are prevalent in imaging science, symmetries in the forward model are common. When data-driven deep learning approaches are used to solve such problems, these intrinsic symmetries can cause substantial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Wenjie Zhang , Yuxiang Wan , Zhong Zhuang , Ju Sun

We present a general framework for symmetrizing an arbitrary neural-network architecture and making it equivariant with respect to a given group. We build upon the proposals of Kim et al. (2023); Kaba et al. (2023) for symmetrization, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Tien Dat Nguyen , Jinwoo Kim , Hongseok Yang , Seunghoon Hong

While transformers excel in many settings, their application in the field of automated planning is limited. Prior work like PlanGPT, a state-of-the-art decoder-only transformer, struggles with extrapolation from easy to hard planning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Markus Fritzsche , Elliot Gestrin , Jendrik Seipp

Symmetry transformations induce invariances which are frequently described with deep latent variable models. In many complex domains, such as the chemical space, invariances can be observed, yet the corresponding symmetry transformation…

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