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Neural network force fields have significantly advanced ab initio atomistic simulations across diverse fields. However, their application in the realm of magnetic materials is still in its early stage due to challenges posed by the subtle…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-08 Zilong Yuan , Zhiming Xu , He Li , Xinle Cheng , Honggeng Tao , Zechen Tang , Zhiyuan Zhou , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

Many applications require the robustness, or ideally the invariance, of a neural network to certain transformations of input data. Most commonly, this requirement is addressed by either augmenting the training data, using adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Kanchana Vaishnavi Gandikota , Jonas Geiping , Zorah Lähner , Adam Czapliński , Michael Moeller

Data augmentation is a key element in training high-dimensional models. In this approach, one synthesizes new observations by applying pre-specified transformations to the original training data; e.g.~new images are formed by rotating old…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-01 Søren Hauberg , Oren Freifeld , Anders Boesen Lindbo Larsen , John W. Fisher , Lars Kai Hansen

Considering smooth mappings from input vectors to continuous targets, our goal is to characterise subspaces of the input domain, which are invariant under such mappings. Thus, we want to characterise manifolds implicitly defined by level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Vitali Nesterov , Fabricio Arend Torres , Monika Nagy-Huber , Maxim Samarin , Volker Roth

A number of machine learning tasks entail a high degree of invariance: the data distribution does not change if we act on the data with a certain group of transformations. For instance, labels of images are invariant under translations of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-01 Song Mei , Theodor Misiakiewicz , Andrea Montanari

Modern deep learning models generalize remarkably well in-distribution, despite being overparametrized and trained with little to no explicit regularization. Instead, current theory credits implicit regularization imposed by the choice of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jonathan Wenger , Beau Coker , Juraj Marusic , John P. Cunningham

Many generative tasks in chemistry and science involve distributions invariant to group symmetries (e.g., permutation and rotation). A common strategy enforces invariance and equivariance through architectural constraints such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Cai Zhou , Zijie Chen , Zian Li , Jike Wang , Kaiyi Jiang , Pan Li , Rose Yu , Muhan Zhang , Stephen Bates , Tommi Jaakkola

Inspired by two basic mechanisms in animal visual systems, we introduce a feature transform technique that imposes invariance properties in the training of deep neural networks. The resulting algorithm requires less parameter tuning, trains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Chengxi Ye , Xiong Zhou , Tristan McKinney , Yanfeng Liu , Qinggang Zhou , Fedor Zhdanov

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

Deep neural networks are increasingly used for pair-wise image registration. We propose to extend current learning-based image registration to allow simultaneous registration of multiple images. To achieve this, we build upon the pair-wise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Tycho F. A. van der Ouderaa , Ivana Išgum , Wouter B. Veldhuis , Bob D. de Vos

Recent attempts at introducing rotation invariance or equivariance in 3D deep learning approaches have shown promising results, but these methods still struggle to reach the performances of standard 3D neural networks. In this work we study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Hugues Thomas

Equivariance to random image transformations is an effective method to learn landmarks of object categories, such as the eyes and the nose in faces, without manual supervision. However, this method does not explicitly guarantee that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 James Thewlis , Samuel Albanie , Hakan Bilen , Andrea Vedaldi

Universality results for equivariant neural networks remain rare. Those that do exist typically hold only in restrictive settings: either they rely on regular or higher-order tensor representations, leading to impractically high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-20 Marco Pacini , Mircea Petrache , Bruno Lepri , Shubhendu Trivedi , Robin Walters

One of the fundamental problems within the field of machine learning is dimensionality reduction. Dimensionality reduction methods make it possible to combat the so-called curse of dimensionality, visualize high-dimensional data and, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Sergio García-Heredia , Ángela Fernández , Carlos M. Alaíz

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

In comparison to classical shallow representation learning techniques, deep neural networks have achieved superior performance in nearly every application benchmark. But despite their clear empirical advantages, it is still not well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Calvin Murdock , George Cazenavette , Simon Lucey

The recent impressive results of deep learning-based methods on computer vision applications brought fresh air to the research and industrial community. This success is mainly due to the process that allows those methods to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Keiller Nogueira , Jocelyn Chanussot , Mauro Dalla Mura , Jefersson A. dos Santos

Deep learning has enjoyed tremendous success in a variety of applications but its application to quantile regressions remains scarce. A major advantage of the deep learning approach is its flexibility to model complex data in a more…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-14 Qixian Zhong , Jane-Ling Wang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) can be made hardware-efficient by reducing the numerical precision of the weights and activations of the network and by improving the network's resilience to noise. However, this gain in efficiency often comes at…

Despite the successes of deep learning in computer vision, difficulties persist in recognizing objects that have undergone group-symmetric transformations rarely seen during training$\unicode{x2013}$for example objects seen in unusual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Minh Dinh , Stéphane Deny