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20182026
most citedScalars are universal: Equivariant machine learning, structured like classical physics

34 citations · 63 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

stat.ML2026

Warm-starting PDE solvers with any-dimensional machine learning

Wilson G. Gregory, George A. Kevrekidis, Ben Blum-Smith +1

Any-dimensional machine learning models, such as graph neural networks (GNNs), can be naturally trained and evaluated on inputs of different sizes and dimensions. Inspired by the G…

math.HO2025★ 1 cited

If you can distinguish, you can express: Galois theory, Stone--Weierstrass, machine learning, and linguistics

Ben Blum-Smith, Claudia Brugman, Thomas Conners +1

This essay develops a parallel between the Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory and the Stone--Weierstrass theorem: both can be viewed as assertions that tie the distinguishing pow…

cs.LG2024

A Galois theorem for machine learning: Functions on symmetric matrices and point clouds via lightweight invariant features

Ben Blum-Smith, Ningyuan Huang, Marco Cuturi +1

In this work, we present a mathematical formulation for machine learning of (1) functions on symmetric matrices that are invariant with respect to the action of permutations by con…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Equivariant geometric convolutions for emulation of dynamical systems

Wilson G. Gregory, David W. Hogg, Ben Blum-Smith +3

Machine learning methods are increasingly being employed as surrogate models in place of computationally expensive and slow numerical integrators for a bevy of applications in the…

stat.ML2022★ 12 cited

Machine learning and invariant theory

Ben Blum-Smith, Soledad Villar

Inspired by constraints from physical law, equivariant machine learning restricts the learning to a hypothesis class where all the functions are equivariant with respect to some gr…

stat.ML2022★ 14 cited

Dimensionless machine learning: Imposing exact units equivariance

Soledad Villar, Weichi Yao, David W. Hogg +2

Units equivariance (or units covariance) is the exact symmetry that follows from the requirement that relationships among measured quantities of physics relevance must obey self-co…

cs.LG2021★ 34 cited

Scalars are universal: Equivariant machine learning, structured like classical physics

Soledad Villar, David W. Hogg, Kate Storey-Fisher +2

There has been enormous progress in the last few years in designing neural networks that respect the fundamental symmetries and coordinate freedoms of physical law. Some of these f…

math.CO2019★ 1 cited

A rotation group whose subspace arrangement is not from a real reflection group

Ben Blum-Smith

We exhibit a family of real rotation groups whose subspace arrangements are not contained in that of any real reflection group, answering a question of Martino and Singh.

math.RT2018

Purely noncommuting groups

Ben Blum-Smith, Fedor Bogomolov

In this paper we define and investigate a class of groups characterized by a representation-theoretic property we call purely noncommuting or PNC. This property guarantees that the…