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In adversarial machine learning, there was a common belief that robustness and accuracy hurt each other. The belief was challenged by recent studies where we can maintain the robustness and improve the accuracy. However, the other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Jingfeng Zhang , Jianing Zhu , Gang Niu , Bo Han , Masashi Sugiyama , Mohan Kankanhalli

Many quantities we are interested in predicting are geometric tensors; we refer to this class of problems as geometric prediction. Attempts to perform geometric prediction in real-world scenarios have been limited to approximating them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Raphael J. L. Townshend , Brent Townshend , Stephan Eismann , Ron O. Dror

The idea behind object-centric representation learning is that natural scenes can better be modeled as compositions of objects and their relations as opposed to distributed representations. This inductive bias can be injected into neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Andrea Dittadi , Samuele Papa , Michele De Vita , Bernhard Schölkopf , Ole Winther , Francesco Locatello

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…

Understanding and interacting with everyday physical scenes requires rich knowledge about the structure of the world, represented either implicitly in a value or policy function, or explicitly in a transition model. Here we introduce a new…

A deep equilibrium model uses implicit layers, which are implicitly defined through an equilibrium point of an infinite sequence of computation. It avoids any explicit computation of the infinite sequence by finding an equilibrium point…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Kenji Kawaguchi

In this paper we present a deep learning method to predict the temporal evolution of dissipative dynamic systems. We propose using both geometric and thermodynamic inductive biases to improve accuracy and generalization of the resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Quercus Hernández , Alberto Badías , Francisco Chinesta , Elías Cueto

Convolutions encode equivariance symmetries into neural networks leading to better generalisation performance. However, symmetries provide fixed hard constraints on the functions a network can represent, need to be specified in advance, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Tycho F. A. van der Ouderaa , Alexander Immer , Mark van der Wilk

Many recent efforts have been devoted to designing sophisticated deep learning structures, obtaining revolutionary results on benchmark datasets. The success of these deep learning methods mostly relies on an enormous volume of labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Jiaji Huang , Qiang Qiu , Robert Calderbank , Guillermo Sapiro

This paper presents a physics-informed neural network approach for dynamic modeling of saturable synchronous machines, including cases with spatial harmonics. We introduce an architecture that incorporates gradient networks directly into…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Junyi Li , Tim Foissner , Floran Martin , Antti Piippo , Marko Hinkkanen

In autonomous driving, deep learning enabled motion prediction is a popular topic. A critical gap in traditional motion prediction methodologies lies in ensuring equivariance under Euclidean geometric transformations and maintaining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuping Wang , Jier Chen

Humans have a remarkable ability to predict the effect of physical interactions on the dynamics of objects. Endowing machines with this ability would allow important applications in areas like robotics and autonomous vehicles. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Davis Rempe , Srinath Sridhar , He Wang , Leonidas J. Guibas

The paper uses statistical and differential geometric motivation to acquire prior information about the learning capability of an artificial neural network on a given dataset. The paper considers a broad class of neural networks with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Ankan Dutta , Arnab Rakshit

Backpropagation is the cornerstone of deep learning, but its reliance on symmetric weight transport and global synchronization makes it computationally expensive and biologically implausible. Feedback alignment offers a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jeonghwan Cheon , Jaehyuk Bae , Se-Bum Paik

The explicit incorporation of task-specific inductive biases through symmetry has emerged as a general design precept in the development of high-performance machine learning models. For example, group equivariant neural networks have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Mircea Petrache , Shubhendu Trivedi

While end-to-end approaches have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many perception tasks, they are not yet able to compete with 3D geometry-based methods in pose estimation. Moreover, absolute pose regression has been shown to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Mohamed Adel Musallam , Vincent Gaudilliere , Miguel Ortiz del Castillo , Kassem Al Ismaeil , Djamila Aouada

How sensitive should machine learning models be to input changes? We tackle the question of model smoothness and show that it is a useful inductive bias which aids generalization, adversarial robustness, generative modeling and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-08 Mihaela Rosca , Theophane Weber , Arthur Gretton , Shakir Mohamed

Machine Learning surrogates for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), particularly Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Transformers, have become a new important approach for accelerating physics simulations. However, we identify a critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Paul Garnier , Vincent Lannelongue , Elie Hachem

Euclidean deep learning is often inadequate for addressing real-world signals where the representation space is irregular and curved with complex topologies. Interpreting the geometric properties of such feature spaces has become paramount…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Ramzan Basheer , Deepak Mishra

Extensive work has demonstrated that equivariant neural networks can significantly improve sample efficiency and generalization by enforcing an inductive bias in the network architecture. These applications typically assume that the domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Dian Wang , Jung Yeon Park , Neel Sortur , Lawson L. S. Wong , Robin Walters , Robert Platt