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We introduce the usage of equivariant neural networks in the search for violations of the charge-parity ($\textit{CP}$) symmetry in particle interactions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. We design neural networks that take as inputs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-27 Sergio Sánchez Cruz , Marina Kolosova , Clara Ramón Álvarez , Giovanni Petrucciani , Pietro Vischia

Anisotropic fluids, such as nematic liquid crystals, can form non-spherical equilibrium shapes known as tactoids. Predicting the shape of these structures as a function of material parameters is challenging and paradigmatic of a broader…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-04 James H. Adler , Anca S. Andrei , Timothy J. Atherton

Clifford Group Equivariant Neural Networks (CGENNs) leverage Clifford algebras and multivectors as an alternative approach to incorporating group equivariance to ensure symmetry constraints in neural representations. In principle, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Riccardo Ali , Paulina Kulytė , Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde , Pietro Liò

We propose a metric learning framework for the construction of invariant geometric functions of planar curves for the Eucledian and Similarity group of transformations. We leverage on the representational power of convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Gautam Pai , Aaron Wetzler , Ron Kimmel

Linear neural network layers that are either equivariant or invariant to permutations of their inputs form core building blocks of modern deep learning architectures. Examples include the layers of DeepSets, as well as linear layers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Charles Godfrey , Michael G. Rawson , Davis Brown , Henry Kvinge

We present a SE(3)-equivariant graph neural network (GNN) approach that directly predicting the formation factor and effective permeability from micro-CT images. FFT solvers are established to compute both the formation factor and effective…

In this paper, we introduce group convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) equivariant to color variation. GCNNs have been designed for a variety of geometric transformations from 2D and 3D rotation groups, to semi-groups such as scale.…

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Recent works show that group equivariance as an inductive bias improves neural network performance for both classification and generation. However, designing group-equivariant neural networks is challenging when the group of interest is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Sourya Basu , Akshayaa Magesh , Harshit Yadav , Lav R. Varshney

The principle of equivariance to symmetry transformations enables a theoretically grounded approach to neural network architecture design. Equivariant networks have shown excellent performance and data efficiency on vision and medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Taco S. Cohen , Maurice Weiler , Berkay Kicanaoglu , Max Welling

Quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs) have been introduced as classifiers for gapped quantum phases of matter. Here, we propose a model-independent protocol for training QCNNs to discover order parameters that are unchanged under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-05 Yu-Jie Liu , Adam Smith , Michael Knap , Frank Pollmann

Little is known about the training dynamics of equivariant neural networks, in particular how it compares to data augmented training of their non-equivariant counterparts. Recently, neural tangent kernels (NTKs) have emerged as a powerful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Philipp Misof , Pan Kessel , Jan E. Gerken

Group equivariance is a strong inductive bias useful in a wide range of deep learning tasks. However, constructing efficient equivariant networks for general groups and domains is difficult. Recent work by Finzi et al. (2021) directly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Sourya Basu , Suhas Lohit , Matthew Brand

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) traditionally encode translation equivariance via the convolution operation. Generalization to other transformations has recently received attraction to encode the knowledge of the data geometry in group…

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Extracting discriminative local features that are invariant to imaging variations is an integral part of establishing correspondences between images. In this work, we introduce a self-supervised learning framework to extract discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Jongmin Lee , Byungjin Kim , Seungwook Kim , Minsu Cho

We introduce Equivariant Isomorphic Networks (EquIN) -- a method for learning representations that are equivariant with respect to general group actions over data. Differently from existing equivariant representation learners, EquIN is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Luis Armando Pérez Rey , Giovanni Luca Marchetti , Danica Kragic , Dmitri Jarnikov , Mike Holenderski

Nematic liquid crystals exhibit configurations in which the underlying ordering changes markedly on macroscopic length scales. Such structures include topological defects in the nematic phase and tactoids within nematic-isotropic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-01 Cody D. Schimming , Jorge Viñals

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

Given a quantum permutation group $G\subset S_N^+$, with orbits having the same size $K$, we construct a universal matrix model $\pi:C(G)\to M_K(C(X))$, having the property that the images of the standard coordinates $u_{ij}\in C(G)$ are…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Teodor Banica , Amaury Freslon

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…

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