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Convolutional neural networks are ubiquitous in Machine Learning applications for solving a variety of problems. They however can not be used in their native form when the domain of the data is commonly encountered manifolds such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Rudrasis Chakraborty , Monami Banerjee , Baba C. Vemuri

Incorporating permutation equivariance into neural networks has proven to be useful in ensuring that models respect symmetries that exist in data. Symmetric tensors, which naturally appear in statistics, machine learning, and graph theory,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Edward Pearce-Crump

It has long been known that a single-layer fully-connected neural network with an i.i.d. prior over its parameters is equivalent to a Gaussian process (GP), in the limit of infinite network width. This correspondence enables exact Bayesian…

In this draft paper, we introduce a novel architecture for graph networks which is equivariant to the Euclidean group in $n$-dimensions. The model is designed to work with graph networks in their general form and can be shown to include…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Emma Slade , Francesco Farina

Geometric deep learning enables the encoding of physical symmetries in modeling 3D objects. Despite rapid progress in encoding 3D symmetries into Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), a comprehensive evaluation of the expressiveness of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Weitao Du , Yuanqi Du , Limei Wang , Dieqiao Feng , Guifeng Wang , Shuiwang Ji , Carla Gomes , Zhi-Ming Ma

Invariances to translations have imbued convolutional neural networks with powerful generalization properties. However, we often do not know a priori what invariances are present in the data, or to what extent a model should be invariant to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Gregory Benton , Marc Finzi , Pavel Izmailov , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Interpretability of Deep Neural Networks has become a major area of exploration. Although these networks have achieved state of the art accuracy in many tasks, it is extremely difficult to interpret and explain their decisions. In this work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Akshay Badola , Cherian Roy , Vineet Padmanabhan , Rajendra Lal

A key property of neural networks is their capacity of adapting to data during training. Yet, our current mathematical understanding of feature learning and its relationship to generalization remain limited. In this work, we provide a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-25 Yatin Dandi , Luca Pesce , Hugo Cui , Florent Krzakala , Yue M. Lu , Bruno Loureiro

The introduction of convolutional layers greatly advanced the performance of neural networks on image tasks due to innately capturing a way of encoding and learning translation-invariant operations, matching one of the underlying symmetries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Nicholas Guttenberg , Nathaniel Virgo , Olaf Witkowski , Hidetoshi Aoki , Ryota Kanai

Polynomial Neural Networks (PNNs) possess a rich algebraic and geometric structure. However, their identifiability -- a key property for ensuring interpretability -- remains poorly understood. In this work, we present a comprehensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Konstantin Usevich , Ricardo Borsoi , Clara Dérand , Marianne Clausel

Deep neural networks come in many sizes and architectures. The choice of architecture, in conjunction with the dataset and learning algorithm, is commonly understood to affect the learned neural representations. Yet, recent results have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Loek van Rossem , Andrew M. Saxe

There is currently a debate within the neuroscience community over the likelihood of the brain performing backpropagation (BP). To better mimic the brain, training a network $\textit{one layer at a time}$ with only a "single forward pass"…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-10 Chieh Wu , Aria Masoomi , Arthur Gretton , Jennifer Dy

We propose an end-to-end deep convolutional network to simultaneously localize and rank relative visual attributes, given only weakly-supervised pairwise image comparisons. Unlike previous methods, our network jointly learns the attribute's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Krishna Kumar Singh , Yong Jae Lee

It has long been recognized that the invariance and equivariance properties of a representation are critically important for success in many vision tasks. In this paper we present Steerable Convolutional Neural Networks, an efficient and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Taco S. Cohen , Max Welling

In recent years, deep neural networks have been applied to obtain high performance of prediction, classification, and pattern recognition. However, the weights in these deep neural networks are difficult to be explained. Although a linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Chi-Hua Chen

Graph neural networks excel at modeling pairwise interactions, but they cannot flexibly accommodate higher-order interactions and features. Topological deep learning (TDL) has emerged recently as a promising tool for addressing this issue.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Claudio Battiloro , Ege Karaismailoğlu , Mauricio Tec , George Dasoulas , Michelle Audirac , Francesca Dominici

We prove an impossibility result, which in the context of function learning says the following: under certain conditions, it is impossible to simultaneously learn symmetries and functions equivariant under them using an ansatz consisting of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-19 Vasco Portilheiro

We introduce a principled approach for unsupervised structure learning of deep neural networks. We propose a new interpretation for depth and inter-layer connectivity where conditional independencies in the input distribution are encoded…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-18 Raanan Y. Rohekar , Shami Nisimov , Yaniv Gurwicz , Guy Koren , Gal Novik

There is currently a debate within the neuroscience community over the likelihood of the brain performing backpropagation (BP). To better mimic the brain, training a network \textit{one layer at a time} with only a "single forward pass" has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-09 Chieh Wu , Aria Masoomi , Arthur Gretton , Jennifer Dy

Group Equivariant Convolutions (GConvs) enable convolutional neural networks to be equivariant to various transformation groups, but at an additional parameter and compute cost. We investigate the filter parameters learned by GConvs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Attila Lengyel , Jan C. van Gemert