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Symmetry detection can improve various machine learning tasks. In the context of continuous symmetry detection, current state of the art experiments are limited to detecting affine transformations. Under the manifold assumption, we outline…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Ben Shaw , Abram Magner , Kevin R. Moon

This paper is a study of the Lie groups of point symmetries admitted by a system describing a non-stationary planar flow of an ideal plastic material. For several types of forces involved in the system, the infinitesimal generators which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Vincent Lamothe

Despite the advancements in learning governing differential equations from observations of dynamical systems, data-driven methods are often unaware of fundamental physical laws, such as frame invariance. As a result, these algorithms may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Jianke Yang , Wang Rao , Nima Dehmamy , Robin Walters , Rose Yu

Extraction of structure, in particular of group symmetries, is increasingly crucial to understanding and building intelligent models. In particular, some information-theoretic models of parsimonious learning have been argued to induce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Hippolyte Charvin , Nicola Catenacci Volpi , Daniel Polani

Symmetry groups of PDEs allow to transform solutions continuously into other solutions. In this paper, we use this property for the observability analysis of nonlinear PDEs with input and output. Based on a differential-geometric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-19 Bernd Kolar , Hubert Rams , Markus Schöberl

Deep metric learning aims to learn an embedding space where the distance between data reflects their class equivalence, even when their classes are unseen during training. However, the limited number of classes available in training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Kyungmoon Lee , Sungyeon Kim , Seunghoon Hong , Suha Kwak

We study how group symmetry helps improve data efficiency and generalization for end-to-end differentiable planning algorithms when symmetry appears in decision-making tasks. Motivated by equivariant convolution networks, we treat the path…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Linfeng Zhao , Xupeng Zhu , Lingzhi Kong , Robin Walters , Lawson L. S. Wong

Solution and analysis of mathematical programming problems may be simplified when these problems are symmetric under appropriate linear transformations. In particular, a knowledge of the symmetries may help reduce the problem dimension, cut…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-13 A. V. Eremeev , A. S. Yurkov

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

Statistical models that possess symmetry arise in diverse settings such as random fields associated to geophysical phenomena, exchangeable processes in Bayesian statistics, and cyclostationary processes in engineering. We formalize the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-12-01 Parikshit Shah , Venkat Chandrasekaran

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

Flow Matching has emerged as a powerful framework for learning continuous transformations between distributions, enabling high-fidelity generative modeling. This work introduces Symmetrical Flow Matching (SymmFlow), a new formulation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Francisco Caetano , Christiaan Viviers , Peter H. N. De With , Fons van der Sommen

It is common in machine learning and statistics to use symmetries derived from expert knowledge to simplify problems or improve performance, using methods like data augmentation or penalties. In this paper we consider the unsupervised and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Colin Hagemeyer

We consider the problem of generating periodic materials with deep models. While symmetry-aware molecule generation has been studied extensively, periodic materials possess different symmetries, which have not been completely captured by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Youzhi Luo , Chengkai Liu , Shuiwang Ji

The notion of symmetry is defined in the context of Linear and Integer Programming. Symmetric linear and integer programs are studied from a group theoretical viewpoint. We show that for any linear program there exists an optimal solution…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-08-25 R. Bödi , K. Herr

Symmetry is a strong prior present in many object categories, yet standard benchmarks for 3D generative models rarely report whether this prior is preserved. We study symmetry preservation in unconditional point cloud generation. We first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Nicolas Caytuiro , Ivan Sipiran

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

This work presents a general geometric framework for simulating and learning the dynamics of Hamiltonian systems that are invariant under a Lie group of transformations. This means that a group of symmetries is known to act on the system…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-01 Miguel Vaquero , Jorge Cortés , David Martín de Diego

The dictionary learning problem can be viewed as a data-driven process to learn a suitable transformation so that data is sparsely represented directly from example data. In this paper, we examine the problem of learning a dictionary that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Subhroshekhar Ghosh , Aaron Y. R. Low , Yong Sheng Soh , Zhuohang Feng , Brendan K. Y. Tan

This thesis aims to establish notions of symmetry for quantum states and channels as well as describe algorithms to test for these properties on quantum computers. Ideally, the work will serve as a self-contained overview of the subject. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-25 Margarite L. LaBorde