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We investigate the relation between end-to-end equivariance and layerwise equivariance in deep neural networks. We prove the following: For a network whose end-to-end function is equivariant with respect to group actions on the input and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Vahid Shahverdi , Giovanni Luca Marchetti , Georg Bökman , Kathlén Kohn

Generalization bounds which assess the difference between the true risk and the empirical risk have been studied extensively. However, to obtain bounds, current techniques use strict assumptions such as a uniformly bounded or a Lipschitz…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Yossi Adi , Yaniv Nemcovsky , Alex Schwing , Tamir Hazan

In this paper, we develop a theory about the relationship between invariant and equivariant maps with regard to a group $G$. We then leverage this theory in the context of deep neural networks with group symmetries in order to obtain novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Akiyoshi Sannai , Yuuki Takai , Matthieu Cordonnier

In recent times machine learning methods have made significant advances in becoming a useful tool for analyzing physical systems. A particularly active area in this theme has been "physics-informed machine learning" which focuses on using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Pulkit Gopalani , Sayar Karmakar , Dibyakanti Kumar , Anirbit Mukherjee

Equivariant networks are specifically designed to ensure consistent behavior with respect to a set of input transformations, leading to higher sample efficiency and more accurate and robust predictions. However, redesigning each component…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Arnab Kumar Mondal , Siba Smarak Panigrahi , Sékou-Oumar Kaba , Sai Rajeswar , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

One of the fundamental challenges in the deep learning community is to theoretically understand how well a deep neural network generalizes to unseen data. However, current approaches often yield generalization bounds that are either too…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Chengli Tan , Jiangshe Zhang , Junmin Liu

Although equivariant machine learning has proven effective at many tasks, success depends heavily on the assumption that the ground truth function is symmetric over the entire domain matching the symmetry in an equivariant neural network. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Dian Wang , Xupeng Zhu , Jung Yeon Park , Mingxi Jia , Guanang Su , Robert Platt , Robin Walters

Equivariant neural networks have been widely used in a variety of applications due to their ability to generalize well in tasks where the underlying data symmetries are known. Despite their successes, such networks can be difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Stefanos Pertigkiozoglou , Evangelos Chatzipantazis , Shubhendu Trivedi , Kostas Daniilidis

Despite the celebrated popularity of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) across numerous applications, the ability of GNNs to generalize remains less explored. In this work, we propose to study the generalization of GNNs through a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Shouheng Li , Dongwoo Kim , Qing Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown great promise in tasks like node and graph classification, but they often struggle to generalize, particularly to unseen or out-of-distribution (OOD) data. These challenges are exacerbated when…

Transformer channel decoders, such as the Error Correction Code Transformer (ECCT), have shown strong empirical performance in channel decoding, yet their generalization behavior remains theoretically unclear. This paper studies the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Qinshan Zhang , Bin Chen , Yong Jiang , Shu-Tao Xia

Generalization is a central concept in machine learning theory, yet for quantum models, it is predominantly analyzed through uniform bounds that depend on a model's overall capacity rather than the specific function learned. These…

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

Neural networks that process the parameters of other neural networks find applications in domains as diverse as classifying implicit neural representations, generating neural network weights, and predicting generalization errors. However,…

Unsupervised domain adaptation aims to generalize the hypothesis trained in a source domain to an unlabeled target domain. One popular approach to this problem is to learn domain-invariant embeddings for both domains. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Ching-Yao Chuang , Antonio Torralba , Stefanie Jegelka

In statistical learning theory, generalization error is used to quantify the degree to which a supervised machine learning algorithm may overfit to training data. Recent work [Xu and Raginsky (2017)] has established a bound on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Ankit Pensia , Varun Jog , Po-Ling Loh

Understanding the generalization behavior of deep neural networks remains a fundamental challenge in modern statistical learning theory. Among existing approaches, PAC-Bayesian norm-based bounds have demonstrated particular promise due to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-14 Xinping Yi , Gaojie Jin , Xiaowei Huang , Shi Jin

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

Learning to reason about relations and dynamics over multiple interacting objects is a challenging topic in machine learning. The challenges mainly stem from that the interacting systems are exponentially-compositional, symmetrical, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Wenbing Huang , Jiaqi Han , Yu Rong , Tingyang Xu , Fuchun Sun , Junzhou Huang

Deep nets generalize well despite having more parameters than the number of training samples. Recent works try to give an explanation using PAC-Bayes and Margin-based analyses, but do not as yet result in sample complexity bounds better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Sanjeev Arora , Rong Ge , Behnam Neyshabur , Yi Zhang
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