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Workshop: Subset Selection in Machine Learning: From Theory to Applications

Data efficiency in graph networks through equivariance

Francesco Farina · Emma Slade


Abstract:

We introduce a novel architecture for graph networks which is equivariant to any transformation in the coordinate embeddings that preserves the distance between neighbouring nodes. In particular, it is equivariant the Euclidean and conformal orthogonal groups in n-dimensions. Thanks to its equivariance properties, the proposed model is extremely more data efficient with respect to classical graph architectures and also intrinsically equipped with a better inductive bias. We show that, learning on a minimal amount of data, the architecture we propose can perfectly generalise to unseen data in a synthetic problem, while much more training data are required from a standard model to reach comparable performance.