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Equivariance is a powerful prior for learning physical dynamics, yet exact group equivariance can degrade performance if the symmetries are broken. We propose object-centric world models built with geometric algebra neural networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Hampus Linander , Conor Heins , Alexander Tschantz , Marco Perin , Christopher Buckley

Averaging checkpoints along the training trajectory is a simple yet powerful approach to improve the generalization performance of Machine Learning models and reduce training time. Motivated by these potential gains, and in an effort to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Niccolò Ajroldi , Antonio Orvieto , Jonas Geiping

A common problem in numerous research areas, particularly in clinical trials, is to test whether the effect of an explanatory variable on an outcome variable is equivalent across different groups. In practice, these tests are frequently…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-03 Niklas Hagemann , Kathrin Möllenhoff

Group equivariance has emerged as a valuable inductive bias in deep learning, enhancing generalization, data efficiency, and robustness. Classically, group equivariant methods require the groups of interest to be known beforehand, which may…

Many machine learning models leverage group invariance which is enjoyed with a wide-range of applications. For exploiting an invariance structure, one common approach is known as \emph{frame averaging}. One popular example of frame…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Wee Chaimanowong , Ying Zhu

Datasets often have their intrinsic symmetries, and particular deep-learning models called equivariant or invariant models have been developed to exploit these symmetries. However, if some or all of these symmetries are only approximate,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Hyunsu Kim , Hyungi Lee , Hongseok Yang , Juho Lee

It is a commonly held belief that enforcing invariance improves generalisation. Although this approach enjoys widespread popularity, it is only very recently that a rigorous theoretical demonstration of this benefit has been established. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-21 Bryn Elesedy

Equivariant neural networks have shown great success in reinforcement learning, improving sample efficiency and generalization when there is symmetry in the task. However, in many problems, only approximate symmetry is present, which makes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Jung Yeon Park , Sujay Bhatt , Sihan Zeng , Lawson L. S. Wong , Alec Koppel , Sumitra Ganesh , Robin Walters

Efficient transfer learning algorithms are key to the success of foundation models on diverse downstream tasks even with limited data. Recent works of Basu et al. (2023) and Kaba et al. (2022) propose group averaging (equitune) and…

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

Incorporating group symmetries into neural networks has been a cornerstone of success in many AI-for-science applications. Diagonal groups of isometries, which describe the invariance under a simultaneous movement of multiple objects, arise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Kevin Han Huang , Ni Zhan , Elif Ertekin , Peter Orbanz , Ryan P. Adams

Sampling efficiency is critical for deploying visuomotor learning in real-world robotic manipulation. While task symmetry has emerged as a promising inductive bias to improve efficiency, most prior work is limited to isometric symmetries --…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Hongbin Lin , Juan Rojas , Kwok Wai Samuel Au

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

Physical symmetries provide a strong inductive bias for constructing functions to analyze data. In particular, this bias may improve robustness, data efficiency, and interpretability of machine learning models. However, building machine…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-05 Pradyun Hebbar , Thandikire Madula , Vinicius Mikuni , Benjamin Nachman , Nadav Outmezguine , Inbar Savoray

Symmetry is one of the most central concepts in physics, and it is no surprise that it has also been widely adopted as an inductive bias for machine-learning models applied to the physical sciences. This is especially true for models…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-12-23 Marcel F. Langer , Sergey N. Pozdnyakov , Michele Ceriotti

Employing equivariance in neural networks leads to greater parameter efficiency and improved generalization performance through the encoding of domain knowledge in the architecture; however, the majority of existing approaches require an a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Emmanouil Theodosis , Karim Helwani , Demba Ba

Recent work has shown deep learning can accelerate the prediction of physical dynamics relative to numerical solvers. However, limited physical accuracy and an inability to generalize under distributional shift limit its applicability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Rui Wang , Robin Walters , Rose Yu

We approach the well-studied problem of supervised group invariant and equivariant machine learning from the point of view of geometric topology. We propose a novel approach using a pre-processing step, which involves projecting the input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Benjamin Aslan , Daniel Platt , David Sheard

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) models are aimed at learning from data encoded in quantum states. Recently, it has been shown that models with little to no inductive biases (i.e., with no assumptions about the problem embedded in the model)…

Methods for the design of physical parameterization schemes that possess certain invariance properties are discussed. These methods are based on different techniques of group classification and provide means to determine expressions for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-01-04 Roman O. Popovych , Alexander Bihlo