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Determining crystal symmetry from powder X-ray diffraction is a central problem in materials characterization, yet multiple space groups can produce indistinguishable patterns, making automated classification difficult. We show that…

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

The geometric design of structures with optimized physical and chemical properties is one of the core topics in materials science. However, designing new functional materials is challenging due to the vast number of existing and the…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-17 Congcong Cui , Guangfeng Wei , Matthias Saba , Yuanyuan Cao , Lu Han

Symmetry groups are projectively represented in quantum mechanics, and crystalline symmetries are fundamental in condensed matter physics. Here, we systematically present a unified theory of quantum mechanical space groups from two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 Y. X. Zhao , L. B. Shao

Assumptions about invariances or symmetries in data can significantly increase the predictive power of statistical models. Many commonly used models in machine learning are constraint to respect certain symmetries in the data, such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-03 Tycho F. A. van der Ouderaa , Mark van der Wilk

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

Statistical models that possess symmetry arise in diverse settings such as random fields associated to geophysical phenomena, exchangeable processes in Bayesian statistics, and cyclostationary processes in engineering. We formalize the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-12-01 Parikshit Shah , Venkat Chandrasekaran

It has been observed that representations learned by distinct neural networks conceal structural similarities when the models are trained under similar inductive biases. From a geometric perspective, identifying the classes of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Irene Cannistraci , Luca Moschella , Marco Fumero , Valentino Maiorca , Emanuele Rodolà

Crystalline structure prediction is an essential prerequisite for designing materials with targeted properties. Yet, it is still an open challenge in materials design and drug discovery. Despite recent advances in computational materials…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Emmanuel Jehanno , Romain Menegaux , Julien Mairal , Sergei Grudinin

Symmetry is fundamental to understanding physical systems and can improve performance and sample efficiency in machine learning. Both pursuits require knowledge of the underlying symmetries in data, yet discovering these symmetries…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yuxuan Chen , Jung Yeon Park , Floor Eijkelboom , Jianke Yang , Jan-Willem van de Meent , Lawson L. S. Wong , Robin Walters

Computational methods that automatically extract knowledge from data are critical for enabling data-driven materials science. A reliable identification of lattice symmetry is a crucial first step for materials characterization and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-19 A. Ziletti , D. Kumar , M. Scheffler , L. M. Ghiringhelli

Symmetry plays a fundamental role in understanding natural phenomena and mathematical structures. This work develops a comprehensive theory for studying the persistent symmetries and degree of asymmetry of finite point configurations over…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Jian Liu , Dong Chen , Guo-Wei Wei

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

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

Machine learning techniques are essential tools to compute efficient, yet accurate, force fields for atomistic simulations. This approach has recently been extended to incorporate quantum computational methods, making use of variational…

We explore the role of group symmetries in binary classification tasks, presenting a novel framework that leverages the principles of Neyman-Pearson optimality. Contrary to the common intuition that larger symmetry groups lead to improved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Michael Spannowsky

The robust and automated determination of crystal symmetry is of utmost importance in material characterization and analysis. Recent studies have shown that deep learning (DL) methods can effectively reveal the correlations between X-ray or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Leslie Ching Ow Tiong , Jeongrae Kim , Sang Soo Han , Donghun Kim

Symmetry in differential equations reveals invariances and offers a powerful means to reduce model complexity. Lie group analysis characterizes these symmetries through infinitesimal generators, which provide a local, linear criterion for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Max Kreider , John Harlim , Daning Huang

Symmetries play a central role in physics, organizing dynamics, constraining interactions, and determining the effective number of physical degrees of freedom. In parallel, modern artificial intelligence methods have demonstrated a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-03 Veronica Sanz

What are the symmetries of a dataset? Whereas the symmetries of an individual data element can be characterized by its invariance under various transformations, the symmetries of an ensemble of data elements are ambiguous due to Jacobian…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-05 Krish Desai , Benjamin Nachman , Jesse Thaler