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One of the main challenges in modern deep learning is to understand why such over-parameterized models perform so well when trained on finite data. A way to analyze this generalization concept is through the properties of the associated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Alison Pouplin , Hrittik Roy , Sidak Pal Singh , Georgios Arvanitidis

There are many surprising and perhaps counter-intuitive properties of optimization of deep neural networks. We propose and experimentally verify a unified phenomenological model of the loss landscape that incorporates many of them. High…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Stanislav Fort , Stanislaw Jastrzebski

Many successful deep learning architectures are equivariant to certain transformations in order to conserve parameters and improve generalization: most famously, convolution layers are equivariant to shifts of the input. This approach only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Allan Zhou , Tom Knowles , Chelsea Finn

Using symmetry as an inductive bias in deep learning has been proven to be a principled approach for sample-efficient model design. However, the relationship between symmetry and the imperative for equivariance in neural networks is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Sékou-Oumar Kaba , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

Understanding how neural representations respond to geometric transformations is essential for evaluating whether learned features preserve meaningful spatial structure. Existing approaches primarily assess robustness primarily by comparing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Huahua Lin , Katayoun Farrahi , Xiaohao Cai

Accurate quantification of uncertainty in neural network predictions remains a central challenge for scientific applications involving high-dimensional, correlated data. While existing methods capture either aleatoric or epistemic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Harrison J. Goldwyn , Mitchell Krock , Johann Rudi , Daniel Getter , Julie Bessac

Incorporating group symmetries via equivariance into neural networks has emerged as a robust approach for overcoming the efficiency and data demands of modern deep learning. While most existing approaches, such as group convolutions and…

The fundamental laws of physics are intrinsically geometric, dictating the evolution of systems through principles of symmetry and conservation. While modern machine learning offers powerful tools for modeling complex dynamics from data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Amine Mohamed Aboussalah , Abdessalam Ed-dib

Invariance under symmetry is an important problem in machine learning. Our paper looks specifically at equivariant neural networks where transformations of inputs yield homomorphic transformations of outputs. Here, steerable CNNs have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Daniel Franzen , Michael Wand

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a prevailing tool for learning physical dynamics. However, they still encounter several challenges: 1) Physical laws abide by symmetry, which is a vital inductive bias accounting for model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Jiaqi Han , Wenbing Huang , Hengbo Ma , Jiachen Li , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

Equivariance of neural networks to transformations helps to improve their performance and reduce generalization error in computer vision tasks, as they apply to datasets presenting symmetries (e.g. scalings, rotations, translations). The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Mateus Sangalli , Samy Blusseau , Santiago Velasco-Forero , Jesus Angulo

The lack of mathematical tractability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has hindered progress towards having a unified convergence analysis of training algorithms, in the general setting. We propose a unified optimization framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Hadi Ghauch , Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei , Carlo Fischione , Mikael Skoglund

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

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

The past few years have witnessed an increased interest in learning Hamiltonian dynamics in deep learning frameworks. As an inductive bias based on physical laws, Hamiltonian dynamics endow neural networks with accurate long-term…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Zhijie Chen , Mingquan Feng , Junchi Yan , Hongyuan Zha

Equivariance guarantees that a model's predictions capture key symmetries in data. When an image is translated or rotated, an equivariant model's representation of that image will translate or rotate accordingly. The success of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Nate Gruver , Marc Finzi , Micah Goldblum , Andrew Gordon Wilson

From early image processing to modern computational imaging, successful models and algorithms have relied on a fundamental property of natural signals: symmetry. Here symmetry refers to the invariance property of signal sets to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Dongdong Chen , Mike Davies , Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Ferdia Sherry , Julián Tachella

We survey the mathematical foundations of geometric deep learning, focusing on group equivariant and gauge equivariant neural networks. We develop gauge equivariant convolutional neural networks on arbitrary manifolds $\mathcal{M}$ using…

To understand the dynamics of optimization in deep neural networks, we develop a tool to study the evolution of the entire Hessian spectrum throughout the optimization process. Using this, we study a number of hypotheses concerning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Behrooz Ghorbani , Shankar Krishnan , Ying Xiao

Hyperbolic neural networks (HNNs) have demonstrated notable efficacy in representing real-world data with hierarchical structures via exploiting the geometric properties of hyperbolic spaces characterized by negative curvatures. Curvature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xiaomeng Fan , Yuwei Wu , Zhi Gao , Mehrtash Harandi , Yunde Jia