A General Theory of Equivariant CNNs on Homogeneous Spaces
We present a general theory of Group equivariant Convolutional Neural Networks (G-CNNs) on homogeneous spaces such as Euclidean space and the sphere. Feature maps in these networks represent fields on a homogeneous base space, and layers are equivariant maps between spaces of fields. The theory enables a systematic classification of all existing G-CNNs in terms of their symmetry group, base space, and field type. We also consider a fundamental question: what is the most general kind of equivariant linear map between feature spaces (fields) of given types? Following Mackey, we show that such maps correspond one-to-one with convolutions using equivariant kernels, and characterize the space of such kernels.
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Cohen, T. S., Geiger, M., & Weiler, M. (2019). A General Theory of Equivariant CNNs on Homogeneous Spaces. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32 (Nips 2019), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 32. https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/169963
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WOS:000535866900070
2019-01-01
La Jolla
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
32
REVIEWED
EPFL
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