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The term GreenAI refers to a novel approach to Deep Learning, that is more aware of the ecological impact and the computational efficiency of its methods. The promoters of GreenAI suggested the use of Floating Point Operations (FLOPs) as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Andrea Asperti , Davide Evangelista , Moreno Marzolla

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 widespread, Transformers lack inductive biases for geometric symmetries common in science and computer vision. Existing equivariant methods often sacrifice the efficiency and flexibility that make Transformers so effective through…

Geometric deep learning enables the encoding of physical symmetries in modeling 3D objects. Despite rapid progress in encoding 3D symmetries into Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), a comprehensive evaluation of the expressiveness of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Weitao Du , Yuanqi Du , Limei Wang , Dieqiao Feng , Guifeng Wang , Shuiwang Ji , Carla Gomes , Zhi-Ming Ma

Equivariant neural networks are a class of neural networks designed to preserve symmetries inherent in the data. In this paper, we introduce a general method for modifying a neural network to enforce equivariance, a process we refer to as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Erkao Bao , Jingcheng Lu , Linqi Song , Nathan Hart-Hodgson , William Parson , Yanheng Zhou

Neural implicit surfaces have become an important technique for multi-view 3D reconstruction but their accuracy remains limited. In this paper, we argue that this comes from the difficulty to learn and render high frequency textures with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 François Darmon , Bénédicte Bascle , Jean-Clément Devaux , Pascal Monasse , Mathieu Aubry

Performance of neural networks can be significantly improved by encoding known invariance for particular tasks. Many image classification tasks, such as those related to cellular imaging, exhibit invariance to rotation. We present a novel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-01 Benjamin Chidester , Minh N. Do , Jian Ma

This work studies the design of neural networks that can process the weights or gradients of other neural networks, which we refer to as neural functional networks (NFNs). Despite a wide range of potential applications, including learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Allan Zhou , Kaien Yang , Kaylee Burns , Adriano Cardace , Yiding Jiang , Samuel Sokota , J. Zico Kolter , Chelsea Finn

Many learning problems involve symmetries, and while invariance can be built into neural architectures, it can also emerge implicitly when training on group-structured data. We study this phenomenon in classical Hopfield networks and show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Michael Murray , Tenzin Chan , Kedar Karhadker , Christopher J. Hillar

State-of-the-art deep learning systems often require large amounts of data and computation. For this reason, leveraging known or unknown structure of the data is paramount. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are successful examples of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Carlos Esteves

Due to common architecture designs, symmetries exist extensively in contemporary neural networks. In this work, we unveil the importance of the loss function symmetries in affecting, if not deciding, the learning behavior of machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Liu Ziyin

Incorporating group symmetries via equivariance into neural networks has emerged as a robust approach for overcoming the efficiency and data demands of modern deep learning. While most existing approaches, such as group convolutions and…

Observers for systems with Lie group symmetries are an active area of research that is seeing significant impact in a number of practical domains, including aerospace, robotics, and mechatronics. This paper builds on the theory of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Hiya Gada , Pieter van Goor , Ravi Banavar , Robert Mahony

We propose a new algorithm to learn a one-hidden-layer convolutional neural network where both the convolutional weights and the outputs weights are parameters to be learned. Our algorithm works for a general class of (potentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Simon S. Du , Surbhi Goel

Group convolutional neural networks (G-CNNs) have been shown to increase parameter efficiency and model accuracy by incorporating geometric inductive biases. In this work, we investigate the properties of representations learned by regular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 David M. Knigge , David W. Romero , Erik J. Bekkers

Numerous studies have recently focused on incorporating different variations of equivariance in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). In particular, rotation-equivariance has gathered significant attention due to its relevance in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Robin Ghyselinck , Valentin Delchevalerie , Bruno Dumas , Benoît Frénay

In certain situations, neural networks are trained upon data that obey underlying symmetries. However, the predictions do not respect the symmetries exactly unless embedded in the network structure. In this work, we introduce architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Anwesh Bhattacharya , Marios Mattheakis , Pavlos Protopapas

The crucial role played by the underlying symmetries of high energy physics and lattice field theories calls for the implementation of such symmetries in the neural network architectures that are applied to the physical system under…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-02-16 Srinath Bulusu , Matteo Favoni , Andreas Ipp , David I. Müller , Daniel Schuh

Incorporating symmetry as an inductive bias into neural network architecture has led to improvements in generalization, data efficiency, and physical consistency in dynamics modeling. Methods such as CNNs or equivariant neural networks use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Rui Wang , Robin Walters , Rose Yu

This paper presents a novel framework combining group equivariant convolutional neural networks (G-CNNs) with equivariant-aware structured pruning to produce compact, transformation-invariant models for resource-constrained environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Mohammed Alnemari