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Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-02 Ilyes Batatia , Mario Geiger , Jose Munoz , Tess Smidt , Lior Silberman , Christoph Ortner

Learning meaningful abstract models of Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) is crucial for improving generalization from limited data. In this work, we show how geometric priors can be imposed on the low-dimensional representation manifold of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Thomas Delliaux , Nguyen-Khanh Vu , Vincent François-Lavet , Elise van der Pol , Emmanuel Rachelson

Designing machine learning architectures for processing neural networks in their raw weight matrix form is a newly introduced research direction. Unfortunately, the unique symmetry structure of deep weight spaces makes this design very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Aviv Navon , Aviv Shamsian , Idan Achituve , Ethan Fetaya , Gal Chechik , Haggai Maron

Incorporating equivariance to symmetry groups as a constraint during neural network training can improve performance and generalization for tasks exhibiting those symmetries, but such symmetries are often not perfectly nor explicitly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Kaitlin Maile , Dennis G. Wilson , Patrick Forré

We address the problem of improving the performance and in particular the sample complexity of deep neural networks by enforcing and guaranteeing invariances to symmetry transformations rather than learning them from data. Group-equivariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Matthias Rath , Alexandru Paul Condurache

Group equivariant neural networks have been explored in the past few years and are interesting from theoretical and practical standpoints. They leverage concepts from group representation theory, non-commutative harmonic analysis and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Carlos Esteves

Existing equivariant neural networks require prior knowledge of the symmetry group and discretization for continuous groups. We propose to work with Lie algebras (infinitesimal generators) instead of Lie groups. Our model, the Lie algebra…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Nima Dehmamy , Robin Walters , Yanchen Liu , Dashun Wang , Rose Yu

We introduce a method to design a computationally efficient $G$-invariant neural network that approximates functions invariant to the action of a given permutation subgroup $G \leq S_n$ of the symmetric group on input data. The key element…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Piotr Kicki , Mete Ozay , Piotr Skrzypczyński

In recent years, the use of machine learning has become increasingly popular in the context of lattice field theories. An essential element of such theories is represented by symmetries, whose inclusion in the neural network properties can…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-12-24 Srinath Bulusu , Matteo Favoni , Andreas Ipp , David I. Müller , Daniel Schuh

We study the problem of modeling a binary operation that satisfies some algebraic requirements. We first construct a neural network architecture for Abelian group operations and derive a universal approximation property. Then, we extend it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Kenshin Abe , Takanori Maehara , Issei Sato

Deep neural networks come in many sizes and architectures. The choice of architecture, in conjunction with the dataset and learning algorithm, is commonly understood to affect the learned neural representations. Yet, recent results have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Loek van Rossem , Andrew M. Saxe

Invariance (defined in a general sense) has been one of the most effective priors for representation learning. Direct factorization of parametric models is feasible only for a small range of invariances, while regularization approaches,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Yingyi Ma , Vignesh Ganapathiraman , Yaoliang Yu , Xinhua Zhang

Representations learnt through deep neural networks tend to be highly informative, but opaque in terms of what information they learn to encode. We introduce an approach to probabilistic modelling that learns to represent data with two…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-21 Ilya Feige

Despite the success of equivariant neural networks in scientific applications, they require knowing the symmetry group a priori. However, it may be difficult to know which symmetry to use as an inductive bias in practice. Enforcing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Jianke Yang , Robin Walters , Nima Dehmamy , Rose Yu

Symmetries and equivariance are fundamental to the generalization of neural networks on domains such as images, graphs, and point clouds. Existing work has primarily focused on a small number of groups, such as the translation, rotation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Marc Finzi , Max Welling , Andrew Gordon Wilson

How can prior knowledge on the transformation invariances of a domain be incorporated into the architecture of a neural network? We propose Equivariant Transformers (ETs), a family of differentiable image-to-image mappings that improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Kai Sheng Tai , Peter Bailis , Gregory Valiant

Adversarial examples reveal critical vulnerabilities in deep neural networks by exploiting their sensitivity to imperceptible input perturbations. While adversarial training remains the predominant defense strategy, it often incurs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Longwei Wang , Ifrat Ikhtear Uddin , KC Santosh , Chaowei Zhang , Xiao Qin , Yang Zhou

In this paper we show how Group Equivariant Convolutional Neural Networks use subsampling to learn to break equivariance to their symmetries. We focus on 2D rotations and reflections and investigate the impact of broken equivariance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Tom Edixhoven , Attila Lengyel , Jan van Gemert

Group equivariant neural networks are used as building blocks of group invariant neural networks, which have been shown to improve generalisation performance and data efficiency through principled parameter sharing. Such works have mostly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Michael Hutchinson , Charline Le Lan , Sheheryar Zaidi , Emilien Dupont , Yee Whye Teh , Hyunjik Kim

This paper presents a transformative framework for artificial neural networks over graded vector spaces, tailored to model hierarchical and structured data in fields like algebraic geometry and physics. By exploiting the algebraic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Tony Shaska