A comprehensive survey of data augmentation in visual reinforcement learning

G Ma, Z Wang, Z Yuan, X Wang, B Yuan… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Visual reinforcement learning (RL), which makes decisions directly from high-dimensional
visual inputs, has demonstrated significant potential in various domains. However …

SECON: Maintaining semantic consistency in data augmentation for code search

X Zhang, Z Lin, X Hu, J Wang, W Lu… - ACM Transactions on …, 2025 - dl.acm.org
Efficient code search techniques are crucial in accelerating software development by aiding
developers in locating specific code snippets and understanding code functionalities. This …

Towards fully covariant machine learning

S Villar, DW Hogg, W Yao, GA Kevrekidis… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Any representation of data involves arbitrary investigator choices. Because those choices
are external to the data-generating process, each choice leads to an exact symmetry …

Non-parametric hypothesis tests for distributional group symmetry

K Chiu, B Bloem-Reddy - arxiv preprint arxiv:2307.15834, 2023 - arxiv.org
Symmetry plays a central role in the sciences, machine learning, and statistics. For situations
in which data are known to obey a symmetry, a multitude of methods that exploit symmetry …

Understanding the Role of Invariance in Transfer Learning

T Speicher, V Nanda, KP Gummadi - arxiv preprint arxiv:2407.04325, 2024 - arxiv.org
Transfer learning is a powerful technique for knowledge-sharing between different tasks.
Recent work has found that the representations of models with certain invariances, such as …

Hypothesis Tests for Distributional Group Symmetry with Applications to Particle Physics

K Chiu, B Bloem-Reddy - NeurIPS 2023 AI for Science Workshop, 2023 - openreview.net
Symmetry plays a central role in the sciences, machine learning, and statistics. When data
are known to obey a symmetry, various methods that exploit symmetry have been …

Symmetries in Overparametrized Neural Networks: A Mean-Field View

J Maass, J Fontbona - arxiv preprint arxiv:2405.19995, 2024 - arxiv.org
We develop a Mean-Field (MF) view of the learning dynamics of overparametrized Artificial
Neural Networks (NN) under data symmetric in law wrt the action of a general compact …

Randomization Tests for Conditional Group Symmetry

K Chiu, A Sharp, B Bloem-Reddy - arxiv preprint arxiv:2412.14391, 2024 - arxiv.org
Symmetry plays a central role in the sciences, machine learning, and statistics. While
statistical tests for the presence of distributional invariance with respect to groups have a …

Symmetry: a General Structure in Nonparametric Regression

LG Christie, JAD Aston - arxiv preprint arxiv:2404.12943, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this paper we present the framework of symmetry in nonparametric regression. This
generalises the framework of covariate sparsity, where the regression function depends only …

[PDF][PDF] Lecture notes for STAT 547S: Topics in Symmetry in Statistics and Machine Learning (draft; in progress)

B Bloem-Reddy - 2023 - stat.ubc.ca
First, a few background assumptions. I assume the existence of a probability space (Ω, H, P)
that is rich enough to support all of the random variables, etc., that we introduce. I also …