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We investigate the possibility that supersymmetry is not a fundamental symmetry of nature, but emerges as an accidental approximate global symmetry at low energies. This can occur if the visible sector is non-supersymmetric at high scales,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Hock-Seng Goh , Markus A. Luty , Siew-Phang Ng

In many physical systems, inputs related by intrinsic system symmetries are mapped to the same output. When inverting such systems, i.e., solving the associated inverse problems, there is no unique solution. This causes fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Kshitij Tayal , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Vipin Kumar , Ju Sun

Humans perceive and interact with hundreds of objects every day. In doing so, they need to employ mental models of these objects and often exploit symmetries in the object's shape and appearance in order to learn generalizable and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Stefano Ferraro , Toon Van de Maele , Tim Verbelen , Bart Dhoedt

We introduce a conditional generative model for learning to disentangle the hidden factors of variation within a set of labeled observations, and separate them into complementary codes. One code summarizes the specified factors of variation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Michael Mathieu , Junbo Zhao , Pablo Sprechmann , Aditya Ramesh , Yann LeCun

A basic question in the study of measure-once quantum finite automata is whether two distinct input words can be separated with certainty. The exact separation problem reduces to a trace-vanishing question in \(SU(2)\). The main difficulty…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Zeyu Chen , Junde Wu

Symmetry is a common feature of many combinatorial problems. Unfortunately eliminating all symmetry from a problem is often computationally intractable. This paper argues that recent parameterized complexity results provide insight into…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Toby Walsh

This work introduces a complexity measure which addresses some conflicting issues between existing ones by using a new principle - measuring the average amount of symmetry broken by an object. It attributes low (although different)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-26 Roberto C. Alamino

The goal of inductive logic programming is to search for a hypothesis that generalises training data and background knowledge. The challenge is searching vast hypothesis spaces, which is exacerbated because many logically equivalent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Andrew Cropper , David M. Cerna , Matti Järvisalo

Having developed a description of indefinite extrinsic symmetric spaces by corresponding infinitesimal objects in the preceding paper we now study the classification problem for these algebraic objects. In most cases the transvection group…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-04-13 Ines Kath

Symmetry is ubiquitous throughout nature and can often give great insights into the formation, structure and stability of objects studied by mathematicians, physicists, chemists and biologists. However, perfect symmetry occurs rarely so…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Nicholas Bermingham , Vanessa Robins , Katharine Turner

We design a deep-learning algorithm for the discovery and identification of the continuous group of symmetries present in a labeled dataset. We use fully connected neural networks to model the symmetry transformations and the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-16 Roy T. Forestano , Konstantin T. Matchev , Katia Matcheva , Alexander Roman , Eyup Unlu , Sarunas Verner

The structure of the coincidence symmetry group of an arbitrary $n$-dimensional lattice in the $n$-dimensional Euclidean space is considered by describing a set of generators. Particular attention is given to the coincidence isometry…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yi Ming Zou

Similarity functions measure how comparable pairs of elements are, and play a key role in a wide variety of applications, e.g., notions of Individual Fairness abiding by the seminal paradigm of Dwork et al., as well as Clustering problems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Leonidas Tsepenekas , Ivan Brugere , Freddy Lecue , Daniele Magazzeni

Selection rules are often considered a hallmark of symmetry. When a symmetry is broken, e.g., by an external perturbation, the system exhibits selection rule deviations which are often analyzed by perturbation theory. Here, we employ…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-06 Matan Even Tzur , Ofer Neufeld , Avner Fleischer , Oren Cohen

Some physical objects are hardly accessible to direct experimentation. It is then desirable to infer their properties based solely on the interactions they have with systems over which we have control. In this spirit, here we introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 Tanjung Krisnanda , Margherita Zuppardo , Mauro Paternostro , Tomasz Paterek

We introduce an analytically solvable model for a fragmented object that, despite of a low degree of randomness and of the extreme simplicity of the breaking process, displays non self-averaging effects in its thermodynamic limit.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrea De Martino

This paper concerns open-world classification, where the classifier not only needs to classify test examples into seen classes that have appeared in training but also reject examples from unseen or novel classes that have not appeared in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Lei Shu , Hu Xu , Bing Liu

Efficient omission of symmetric solution candidates is essential for combinatorial problem-solving. Most of the existing approaches are instance-specific and focus on the automatic computation of Symmetry Breaking Constraints (SBCs) for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Alice Tarzariol , Martin Gebser , Konstantin Schekotihin

We explore the notion of degree of asymmetry for integer sequences and related combinatorial objects. The degree of asymmetry is a new combinatorial statistic that measures how far an object is from being symmetric. We define this notion…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Sergi Elizalde , Emeric Deutsch

Large intra-class variation is the result of changes in multiple object characteristics. Images, however, only show the superposition of different variable factors such as appearance or shape. Therefore, learning to disentangle and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Dominik Lorenz , Leonard Bereska , Timo Milbich , Björn Ommer