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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

The role of fibration symmetries in geometric deep learning.

Osvaldo M Velarde, Lucas C Parra, Paolo Boldi, Hernán A Makse

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Osvaldo M VelardeDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, The City College of New York, New York, NY 10031.ORCID 0000-0002-7291-4018
Lucas C ParraDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, The City College of New York, New York, NY 10031.ORCID 0000-0003-4667-816X
Paolo BoldiDepartment of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Metropolitan City of Milan, Milan 20133, Italy.
Hernán A MakseDepartment of Physics, Levich Institute, The City College of New York, New York, NY 10031.ORCID 0000-0001-6474-1324

Funding

Machine learning for risk-adjusted breast MRI screeningR01CA247910 · NCI · CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK · PI PARRA, LUCAS C, SUTTON, ELIZABETH J · 2021 to 2025
$3.3M
Application of the principle of symmetry to neural circuitry: From building blocks to neural synchronization in the connectomeR01EB028157 · NIBIB · CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK · PI MAKSE, HERNAN, ZIMMER, MANUEL · 2020 to 2020
$1.1M
EU - NGEU PE0000001HHS | NIH | National Cancer Institute (NCI) R01CA247910HHS | NIH | National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) R01EB028157
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Geometric Deep Learning (GDL) unifies a broad class of machine learning techniques from the perspectives of symmetries, offering a framework for introducing problem-specific inductive biases like Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, the current formulation of GDL is limited to global symmetries. We propose to relax GDL to allow for local symmetries, specifically fibration symmetries, which only require isomorphic input trees-a property that is much more common in real-world graphs. We show that GNNs apply the inductive bias of fibration symmetries and derive a tighter upper bound for their expressive power. Additionally, by identifying symmetries in networks, we compress network nodes, thereby increasing their computational efficiency during both inference and training of deep neural networks. The mathematical extension introduced here applies beyond graphs to manifolds, bundles, and grids for the development of models with inductive biases induced by local symmetries that can lead to better generalization.

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deep neural networksfibration symmetriesgraph symmetriesnetwork dynamics

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PMID41564124
PMCPMC12849690

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