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This work seeks to improve the generalization and robustness of existing neural networks for 3D point clouds by inducing group equivariance under general group transformations. The main challenge when designing equivariant models for point…

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We present a neural network architecture that is fully equivariant with respect to transformations under the Lorentz group, a fundamental symmetry of space and time in physics. The architecture is based on the theory of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-09 Alexander Bogatskiy , Brandon Anderson , Jan T. Offermann , Marwah Roussi , David W. Miller , Risi Kondor

Recent work (Cohen & Welling, 2016) has shown that generalizations of convolutions, based on group theory, provide powerful inductive biases for learning. In these generalizations, filters are not only translated but can also be rotated,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Nichita Diaconu , Daniel E Worrall

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

The attention mechanism in its standard implementation contains extraneous rotational degrees of freedom that are carried through computation but do not affect model activations or outputs. We introduce a simple symmetry-breaking protocol…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Eva Silverstein , Daniel Kunin , Vasudev Shyam

We present a novel framework to overcome the limitations of equivariant architectures in learning functions with group symmetries. In contrary to equivariant architectures, we use an arbitrary base model such as an MLP or a transformer and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jinwoo Kim , Tien Dat Nguyen , Ayhan Suleymanzade , Hyeokjun An , Seunghoon Hong

Learning to predict agent motions with relationship reasoning is important for many applications. In motion prediction tasks, maintaining motion equivariance under Euclidean geometric transformations and invariance of agent interaction is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Chenxin Xu , Robby T. Tan , Yuhong Tan , Siheng Chen , Yu Guang Wang , Xinchao Wang , Yanfeng Wang

Many learning tasks, including learning potential energy surfaces from ab initio calculations, involve global spatial symmetries and permutational symmetry between atoms or general particles. Equivariant graph neural networks are a standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Zimu Li , Zihan Pengmei , Han Zheng , Erik Thiede , Junyu Liu , Risi Kondor

In this paper, we introduce group convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) equivariant to color variation. GCNNs have been designed for a variety of geometric transformations from 2D and 3D rotation groups, to semi-groups such as scale.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yulong Yang , Felix O'Mahony , Christine Allen-Blanchette

Steerable convolutional neural networks (SCNNs) enhance task performance by modelling geometric symmetries through equivariance constraints on weights. Yet, unknown or varying symmetries can lead to overconstrained weights and decreased…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Lars Veefkind , Gabriele Cesa

Rotation-invariance is a desired property of machine-learning models for medical image analysis and in particular for computational pathology applications. We propose a framework to encode the geometric structure of the special Euclidean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Maxime W. Lafarge , Erik J. Bekkers , Josien P. W. Pluim , Remco Duits , Mitko Veta

The principle of translation equivariance (if an input image is translated an output image should be translated by the same amount), led to the development of convolutional neural networks that revolutionized machine vision. Other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zachary Schlamowitz , Andrew Bennecke , Daniel J. Tward

The Euclidean scattering transform was introduced nearly a decade ago to improve the mathematical understanding of the success of convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) in image data analysis and other tasks. Inspired by recent interest…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-06 Michael Perlmutter , Guy Wolf , Matthew Hirn

Many classes of images exhibit rotational symmetry. Convolutional neural networks are sometimes trained using data augmentation to exploit this, but they are still required to learn the rotation equivariance properties from the data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Sander Dieleman , Jeffrey De Fauw , Koray Kavukcuoglu

Equivariant Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have significantly advanced the modeling of 3D molecular structure by leveraging group representations. However, their message passing, heavily relying on Clebsch-Gordan tensor product convolutions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Junyi An , Xinyu Lu , Chao Qu , Yunfei Shi , Peijia Lin , Qianwei Tang , Licheng Xu , Fenglei Cao , Yuan Qi

Quantum Transformers integrate the representational power of classical Transformers with the computational advantages of quantum computing. Since 2022, research in this area has rapidly expanded, giving rise to diverse technical paradigms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Hui Zhang , Qinglin Zhao , Mengchu Zhou , Li Feng , Dusit Niyato , Shenggen Zheng , Lin Chen

The recent success of neural networks as implicit representation of data has driven growing interest in neural functionals: models that can process other neural networks as input by operating directly over their weight spaces. Nevertheless,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Allan Zhou , Kaien Yang , Yiding Jiang , Kaylee Burns , Winnie Xu , Samuel Sokota , J. Zico Kolter , Chelsea Finn

Classical image filters, such as those for averaging or differencing, are carefully normalized to ensure consistency, interpretability, and to avoid artifacts like intensity shifts, halos, or ringing. In contrast, convolutional filters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Gustavo Perez , Stella X. Yu

Invertible convolutions have been an essential element for building expressive normalizing flow-based generative models since their introduction in Glow. Several attempts have been made to design invertible $k \times k$ convolutions that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Aditya Kallappa , Sandeep Nagar , Girish Varma

Based on the theory of homogeneous spaces we derive geometrically optimal edge attributes to be used within the flexible message-passing framework. We formalize the notion of weight sharing in convolutional networks as the sharing of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Erik J Bekkers , Sharvaree Vadgama , Rob D Hesselink , Putri A van der Linden , David W Romero