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Despite the successes of deep learning in computer vision, difficulties persist in recognizing objects that have undergone group-symmetric transformations rarely seen during training$\unicode{x2013}$for example objects seen in unusual…

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Despite the remarkable progress facilitated by learning-based stereo-matching algorithms, disparity estimation in low-texture, occluded, and bordered regions still remains a bottleneck that limits the performance. To tackle these…

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Neural functional networks (NFNs) have recently gained significant attention due to their diverse applications, ranging from predicting network generalization and network editing to classifying implicit neural representation. Previous NFN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Viet-Hoang Tran , Thieu N. Vo , Tho H. Tran , An T. Nguyen , Tan M. Nguyen

Most equivariant neural networks rely on a single global symmetry, limiting their use in domains where symmetries are instead local. We introduce Torsor CNNs, a framework for learning on graphs with local symmetries encoded as edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Daiyuan Li , Shreya Arya , Robert Ghrist

Equivariant neural networks are neural networks with symmetry. Motivated by the theory of group representations, we decompose the layers of an equivariant neural network into simple representations. The nonlinear activation functions lead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Joel Gibson , Daniel Tubbenhauer , Geordie Williamson

High image resolution is critical to obtain a good performance in many computer vision applications. Computational complexity of CNNs, however, grows significantly with the increase in input image size. Here, we show that it is almost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Ali Borji

We adapt previous research on category theory and topological unsupervised learning to develop a functorial perspective on manifold learning, also known as nonlinear dimensionality reduction. We first characterize manifold learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Dan Shiebler

Learning invariant representations from images is one of the hardest challenges facing computer vision. Spatial pooling is widely used to create invariance to spatial shifting, but it is restricted to convolutional models. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-19 Sainbayar Sukhbaatar , Takaki Makino , Kazuyuki Aihara

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) employ neural networks to represent continuous functions by mapping coordinates to the corresponding values of the target function, with applications e.g., inverse graphics. However, INRs face a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Mingze Ma , Qingtian Zhu , Yifan Zhan , Zhengwei Yin , Hongjun Wang , Yinqiang Zheng

Automatic tumor segmentation is a crucial step in medical image analysis for computer-aided diagnosis. Although the existing methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved the state-of-the-art performance, many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-11 Shuchao Pang , Anan Du , Mehmet A. Orgun , Yan Wang , Quanzheng Sheng , Shoujin Wang , Xiaoshui Huang , Zhemei Yu

Equivariant neural networks are designed to respect symmetries through their architecture, boosting generalization and sample efficiency when those symmetries are present in the data distribution. Real-world data, however, often departs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Andrei Manolache , Luiz F. O. Chamon , Mathias Niepert

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

The translational equivariant nature of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is a reason for its great success in computer vision. However, networks do not enjoy more general equivariance properties such as rotation or scaling, ultimately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Zikai Sun , Thierry Blu

We develop a weak adversarial approach to solving obstacle problems using neural networks. By employing (generalised) regularised gap functions and their properties we rewrite the obstacle problem (which is an elliptic variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-28 Amal Alphonse , Michael Hintermüller , Alexander Kister , Chin Hang Lun , Clemens Sirotenko

Neural Collapse refers to the remarkable structural properties characterizing the geometry of class embeddings and classifier weights, found by deep nets when trained beyond zero training error. However, this characterization only holds for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Christos Thrampoulidis , Ganesh R. Kini , Vala Vakilian , Tina Behnia

The task of shape space learning involves mapping a train set of shapes to and from a latent representation space with good generalization properties. Often, real-world collections of shapes have symmetries, which can be defined as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Matan Atzmon , Koki Nagano , Sanja Fidler , Sameh Khamis , Yaron Lipman

We address the problem of determining correspondences between two images in agreement with a geometric model such as an affine or thin-plate spline transformation, and estimating its parameters. The contributions of this work are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Ignacio Rocco , Relja Arandjelović , Josef Sivic

Neural networks are usually not the tool of choice for nonparametric high-dimensional problems where the number of input features is much larger than the number of observations. Though neural networks can approximate complex multivariate…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-06-25 Jean Feng , Noah Simon

Many scientific problems require to process data in the form of geometric graphs. Unlike generic graph data, geometric graphs exhibit symmetries of translations, rotations, and/or reflections. Researchers have leveraged such inductive bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Jiaqi Han , Yu Rong , Tingyang Xu , Wenbing Huang

Recent success in training deep neural networks have prompted active investigation into the features learned on their intermediate layers. Such research is difficult because it requires making sense of non-linear computations performed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Yixuan Li , Jason Yosinski , Jeff Clune , Hod Lipson , John Hopcroft