NeurIPS 2025 Past Other

NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations

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Accepted papers (121)

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  1. A Comparative Empirical Study of Relative Embedding Alignment in Neural Dynamical System Forecasters

    Deniz Kucukahmetler, Maximilian Jean Hemmann, Julian Mosig von Aehrenfeld, Maximilian Amthor, Christian Deubel, Nico Scherf, Diaaeldin Taha · PDF
  2. A Dendritic-Inspired Network Science Generative Model for Topological Initialization of Connectivity in Sparse Artificial Neural Networks

    Diego Cerretti, Yingtao Zhang, Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci · PDF
  3. A New Perspective for Graph Learning Architecture Design: Linearize Your Depth Away

    Joël Mathys, Roger Wattenhofer · PDF
  4. A Variational Manifold Embedding Framework for Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction

    John J. Vastola, Samuel J. Gershman, Kanaka Rajan · PDF
  5. Activation Matching for Explanation Generation and Circuit Discovery

    Pirzada Suhail, Amit Sethi · PDF
  6. Affect2Act: Graph Attention Networks for Emotion-Informed Decision Making

    Jash Vora, Yash Shah · PDF
  7. An Analytical Framework for Multi-Area Balanced Networks

    Josue Casco-Rodriguez, Mitra Javadzadeh · PDF
  8. An Information-Geometric View of the Platonic Hypothesis

    Alexander Lobashev · PDF
  9. Any-Subgroup Equivariant Networks via Symmetry Breaking

    Abhinav Goel, Derek Lim, Hannah Lawrence, Stefanie Jegelka, Ningyuan Huang · PDF
  10. Balancing Fairness and Accuracy in Graph Learning via Fairness-Constrained Rewiring

    Jason Wang, Lukas Fesser, Melanie Weber · PDF
  11. Beyond I-Con: A Roadmap for Representation Learning Loss Discovery

    Jasmine Shone, Zhening Li, Shaden Alshammari, Mark Hamilton, William T. Freeman · PDF
  12. Beyond Parallelism: Synergistic Computational Graph Effects in Multi-Head Attention

    Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde · PDF
  13. Beyond Pixels: A Differentiable Pipeline for Probing Neuronal Selectivity in 3D

    Pavithra Elumalai, Mohammad Bashiri, Goirik Chakrabarty, Suhas Shrinivasan, Fabian H. Sinz · PDF
  14. Bispectral OT: Dataset Comparison using Symmetry-Aware Optimal Transport

    Annabel Ma, Kaiying Hou, David Alvarez-Melis, Melanie Weber · PDF
  15. Boundary Guidance for Efficient 3D CT Vision–Language Reasoning

    Soo Yong Kim · PDF
  16. Brain network science modelling of sparse neural networks enables Transformers and LLMs to perform as fully connected

    Yingtao Zhang, Diego Cerretti, Jialin Zhao, Wenjing Wu, Ziheng Liao, Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci · PDF
  17. Cannistraci-Hebb Training of Convolutional Neural Networks

    Hanming Li, Yusong Wang, Yingtao Zhang, Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci · PDF
  18. CAP$_{\mathcal{M}}$ : Curvature-Aware Pulling on Riemannian Manifolds

    Nizar Benbouchta · PDF
  19. Causal Geometry of Batch Size and Generalisation

    Zhongtian Sun, Anoushka Harit, Pietro Lio · PDF
  20. Causality $\neq$ Decodability, and Vice Versa: Lessons from Interpreting Counting ViTs

    Lianghuan Huang, Yingshan Chang · PDF
  21. Complete Characterization of Gauge Symmetries in Transformer Architectures

    Hong Wang, Kelly Wang · PDF
  22. Composed Program Induction with Latent Program Lattice

    Jumyung Park, Jiwon Park, Jinseo Shim, Sejin Kim, Paulina Vennemann, Sundong Kim · PDF
  23. Compositional Symmetry as Compression: Lie‑Pseudogroup Structure in Algorithmic Agents

    Giulio Ruffini · PDF
  24. Context-Dependent Manifold Learning in Dynamical Systems: A Neuromodulated Constrained Autoencoder Approach

    Jérôme Adriaens, Guillaume Drion, Pierre Sacré · PDF
  25. Contrast inversion reveals hierarchical asymmetries of contrast processing in biological and artificial vision

    Sohrab Najafian, Giordano Ramos-Traslosheros, Akshay Vivek Jagadeesh, Margaret Livingstone · PDF
  26. Contrastive Learning with Latent Tension Regularization for Tight Orbits

    Ritwik Ghosal · PDF
  27. Covering Relations in the Poset of Combinatorial Neural Codes

    Trong-Thuc Trang, R. Amzi Jeffs · PDF
  28. Curvature Dynamic Black-box Attack: revisiting adversarial robustness via dynamic curvature estimation

    Peiran Sun · PDF
  29. Curvature Estimation on Data Manifolds via Diffusion-augmented Sampling

    Jason Wang, Bobak Kiani, Melanie Weber · PDF
  30. Curvature Meets Bispectrum: A Correspondence Theory for Transformer Gauge Invariants

    Hong Wang, Kelly Wang · PDF
  31. Data Augmentation: A Fourier Analysis Perspective

    Behrooz Tahmasebi, Melanie Weber, Stefanie Jegelka · PDF
  32. Deep neural network model of sound localization replicates “what” and “where” representations in auditory cortex

    Chenggang Chen, Zhiyu Yang · PDF
  33. DIET-CP: Lightweight and Data Efficient Self Supervised Continued Pretraining

    Bryan Rodas, Natalie Montesino, Jakob Ambsdorf, David Klindt, Randall Balestriero · PDF
  34. Dimensionality of population-level latent mechanisms encoding spatial representations

    Nur Efsan Delikkaya, Alperen Cimen, Francisco Acosta, Adele Myers, Andy Alexander, Fatih Dinc, Nina Miolane · PDF
  35. Do Masked Autoencoders Learn a Human-Like Geometry of Neural Representation? Divergence and Convergence Across Brains and Machines During Naturalistic Vision

    Hamed Karimi, Stefano Anzellotti · PDF
  36. Do traveling waves make good positional encodings?

    Chase van de Geijn, Ayush Paliwal, Timo Lüddecke, Alexander S. Ecker · PDF
  37. Dual-Stream EEG Decoding for 3D Visual Perception

    Ninon Lizé Masclef, Taisija Demcenko, Antonella Catanzaro, Nataliya Kosmyna · PDF
  38. ECoNets: Rotation Equivariant Contrail Detection Neural Networks in Satellite Imagery

    Edgar Loza, Davide Di Giusto, Vincent R. Meijer, Teodora Petrisor · PDF
  39. Emergent Riemannian geometry over learning discrete computations on continuous manifolds

    Julian Brandon, Angus Chadwick, Arthur Pellegrino · PDF
  40. Equivariance by Local Canonicalization: A Matter of Representation

    Gerrit Gerhartz, Peter Lippmann, Fred A. Hamprecht · PDF
  41. Event2Vec: A Geometric Approach to Learning Composable Representations of Event Sequences

    Antonin Sulc · PDF
  42. Exact Learning Dynamics of In-Context Learning in Linear Transformers and Its Application to Non-Linear Transformers

    Nischal Mainali, Lucas Teixeira · PDF
  43. Exploring Learnability in Dynamical Stochastic Networks: A Field-Theoretic Approach

    Yibo Jacky Zhang, Sanmi Koyejo · PDF
  44. Factorized Prefrontal Geometry of Goal and Uncertainty Explains Flexible yet Stable Human Goal Pursuit

    Yoondo Sung, Mattia Rigotti, Sang Wan Lee · PDF
  45. Far from the Shallow: Brain-Predictive Reasoning Embedding through Residual Disentanglement

    Linyang He, Tianjun Zhong, Richard Antonello, Gavin Mischler, Micah Goldblum, Nima Mesgarani · PDF
  46. Filter Equivariant Functions: A symmetric account of length-general extrapolation on lists

    Owen Lewis, Neil Ghani, Andrew Joseph Dudzik, Christos Perivolaropoulos, Razvan Pascanu, Petar Veličković · PDF
  47. Flow Equivariant World Models: Structured Dynamics Outside the Field of View

    Hansen Lillemark, Benhao Huang, Fangneng Zhan, Yilun Du, T. Anderson Keller · PDF
  48. From Extrapolation to Generalization: How Conditioning Transforms Symmetry Learning in Diffusion Models

    Sid Bharthulwar, T. Anderson Keller, Manos Theodosis, Demba E. Ba · PDF
  49. From Finite to Infinite Groups: A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Learning with Exact Invariances

    Ashkan Soleymani, Behrooz Tahmasebi, Patrick Jaillet, Stefanie Jegelka · PDF
  50. Gauge Fiber Bundle Geometry of Transformers

    Hong Wang, Kelly Wang · PDF
  51. Generalizable Representation Geometry for Grating Stimuli in Primary Visual Cortex and Artificial Neural Networks

    Zeyuan Ye, Ralf Wessel · PDF
  52. Geometric Priors for Generalizable World Models via Vector Symbolic Architecture

    William Youngwoo Chung, Calvin Yeung, Hansen Lillemark, Zhuowen Zou, Xiangjian Liu, Mohsen Imani · PDF
  53. Geometry matters: insights from Ollivier Ricci Curvature and Ricci Flow into representational alignment

    Nahid Torbati, Michael Gaebler, Simon M. Hofmann, Nico Scherf · PDF
  54. Graph Mixing Additive Networks

    Maya Bechler-Speicher, Andrea Zerio, Maor Huri, Marie Vibeke Vestergaard, Ran Gilad-Bachrach, Tine Jess, Samir Bhatt, Aleksejs Sazonovs · PDF
  55. Group Convolutional Self-Attention for Roto-Translation Equivariance in ViTs

    Sheir A. Zaheer, Alexander C. Holston, Chan Y. Park · PDF
  56. Hilbert geometry of the symmetric positive-definite bicone

    Jacek Karwowski, Frank Nielsen · PDF
  57. Homological Representation Learning for Molecular Graphs

    Yoshihiro Maruyama, Arisa Yasuda · PDF
  58. How does training shape the Riemannian geometry of neural network representations?

    Jacob A Zavatone-Veth, Sheng Yang, Julian Alex Rubinfien, Cengiz Pehlevan · PDF
  59. Inferring dynamical features from neural data through joint learning of latents factors and weights

    Anirudh Gururaj Jamkhandi, Ali Korojy, Olivier Codol, Guillaume Lajoie, Matthew G Perich · PDF
  60. K-theoretic Persistent Cohomology

    Yoshihiro Maruyama, Arisa Yasuda · PDF
  61. Koopman Autoencoders Learn Neural Representation Dynamics

    Nishant Suresh Aswani, Saif Jabari · PDF
  62. Learning from Frustration: Torsor CNNs on Graphs

    Daiyuan Li, Shreya Arya, Robert Ghrist · PDF
  63. Learning rate collapse prevents training recurrent neural networks at scale

    Bariscan Kurtkaya, Mehmet Harmanli, Alperen Cimen, Andy Alexander, Nina Miolane, Fatih Dinc, Yucel Yemez · PDF
  64. Learning representations on Lp hyperspheres: The equivalence of loss functions in a MAP approach

    Nicolas Michel, Jean-François BERCHER, Toshihiko Yamasaki · PDF
  65. LFMA: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning via Layerwise Fourier Masked Adapter with Top-k Frequency Selection

    Junyoung.Park, Soo Yong Kim, Sang Heon Lee, Jeonghwan Lee · PDF
  66. Local Predictions, Global Learning: Radial Basis Function Networks for Spatially-Aware Predictive Coding

    Hou Hei Lam · PDF
  67. Logit-Based Losses Limit the Effectiveness of Feature Knowledge Distillation

    Nick Cooper, Lijun Chen, Sailesh Dwivedy, Danna Gurari · PDF
  68. Mapping neural representations of topologically non-trivial spaces

    Maxim Beketov, Konstantin Sorokin, Pavel Snopov, Anton Ayzenberg, Konstantin Anokhin · PDF
  69. MAPS: A Dataset for Controlled Probing of Representational Topology in Vision Models

    Santiago Galella, Pamela Osuna-Vargas, Maren Wehrheim, Matthias Kaschube · PDF
  70. Measure Before You Look: Grounding Embeddings Through Manifold Metrics

    César Miguel Valdez Córdova, Matthew Scicluna, Shuang Ni, Smita Krishnaswamy, Simon Gravel, Guy Wolf · PDF
  71. Measuring and Controlling Solution Degeneracy across Task-Trained Recurrent Neural Networks

    Ann Huang, Satpreet Harcharan Singh, Flavio Martinelli, Kanaka Rajan · PDF
  72. Meta-learning three-factor plasticity rules for structured credit assignment with sparse feedback

    Dimitra Maoutsa · PDF
  73. Mixed Monotonicity Reachability Analysis of Neural ODE: A Trade-Off Between Tightness and Efficiency

    Abdelrahman Sayed Sayed, Pierre-Jean Meyer, Mohamed Ghazel · PDF
  74. Model manifold analysis suggests the human visual brain is less like an optimal classifier and more like a feature bank

    Colin Conwell, Michael Bonner · PDF
  75. Model Transferability Informed by Embedding’s Topology

    Felipe Gutierrez, Hans Lobel · PDF
  76. Modeling Human Vision with Differential Geometry

    Ana Dodik · PDF
  77. Neural Fields Meet Attention

    Kalyan Cherukuri, Aarav Lala · PDF
  78. Neural Manifold Geometry Encodes Feature Fields

    Julian Yocum, Cameron Allen, Bruno Olshausen, Stuart Russell · PDF
  79. Neurosymbolic Rabbit Brain: Fractal Attractor Geometry for Neural Representations

    Jhet Chan · PDF
  80. On a Geometry of Interbrain Networks

    Nicolás Hinrichs, Noah Guzmán, Melanie Weber · PDF
  81. On neural circuits of working memory sequence permutation: optimizing circuit architectures via Cayley graphs

    Kevin Bien, Junfeng Zuo, Wenhao Zhang · PDF
  82. On the geometry of recurrent spiking networks

    Josue Casco-Rodriguez · PDF
  83. On the Impact of Topological Regularization on Geometrical and Topological Alignment in Autoencoders: An Empirical Study

    Samuel Graepler, Nico Scherf, Anna Wienhard, Diaaeldin Taha · PDF
  84. On Uncertainty Calibration for Invariant Functions

    Edward Berman, Jacob Ginesin, Marco Pacini, Robin Walters · PDF
  85. Persistent Homology Distances for Comparing Disease-Filtered Structural Connectomes

    Hamza Tahir Chaudhry, Vineet R Tiruvadi, Cengiz Pehlevan, Michael D Fox MD PhD, Kanaka Rajan · PDF
  86. Poisson-Algebraic Parallel Scan: A Fast Symplectic Framework for Neural Hamiltonians

    Jiwoong Kim, Erdembileg Davaasuren, Youngsuk Lee, Sungwoo Park · PDF
  87. Provable Low-Frequency Bias of In-Context Learning of Representations

    Yongyi Yang, Hidenori Tanaka, Wei Hu · PDF
  88. Quantifying information stored in synaptic connections rather than in firing activities of neural networks

    Xinhao Fan, Shreesh P Mysore · PDF
  89. Radial-VCReg: More Informative Representation Learning Through Radial Gaussianization

    Yilun Kuang, Yash Dagade, Deep Chakraborty, Erik Learned-Miller, Randall Balestriero, Tim G. J. Rudner, Yann LeCun · PDF
  90. REM3DI: Learning smooth, chiral 3D molecular representations from equivariant atomistic foundation models

    Steffen Wedig, Rokas Elijošius, Christoph Schran, Lars Leon Schaaf · PDF
  91. Representational Homomorphism Error Predicts Compositional Generalization In Language Models

    Zhiyu An, Wan Du · PDF
  92. Response Patterns to Rotation Angle in a Rotation Pretext Task Vary Across Datasets and Architectures: An Observation and a Negative Result

    Paul Yan, Amy Saranchuk, Michael Guerzhoy · PDF
  93. Saliency Thresholds in Neural Code and its Relation to the Power-Law, Gaussian, and Lambert W Function

    Alex Alvarez, Jin Hyun Park, Yoonsuck Choe · PDF
  94. Sample Efficient Offline RL via T-symmetry Enforced Latent State-Stitching

    Peng Cheng, Zhihao Wu, Jianxiong Li, Ziteng He, Haoran Xu, Wei Sun, Youfang Lin, Yunxin Liu, Xianyuan Zhan · PDF
  95. Scalable GPU-Accelerated Euler Characteristic Curves: Optimization and Differentiable Learning for PyTorch

    Udit Saxena · PDF
  96. Self-Supervised Learning from Structural Invariance

    Yipeng Zhang, Hafez Ghaemi, Jungyoon Lee, Laurent Charlin · PDF
  97. Shape-Based Features Complement CLIP Features and Features Learned from Voxels in 3D Object Classification

    Zhi Ji, Michael Guerzhoy · PDF
  98. Shaping Latent Geometry with Noise-Injected Hopfield Dynamics

    Wooyul Jung, Youngseok Joo, Dohyun Yu, Suhyung Choi, Byoung-Tak Zhang · PDF
  99. Sheaf Cohomology of Linear Predictive Coding Networks

    Jeffrey Seely · PDF
  100. Slow Transition to Low-Dimensional Chaos in Heavy-Tailed Recurrent Neural Networks

    Eva Yi Xie, Stefan Mihalas, Łukasz Kuśmierz · PDF
  101. SRTD: A Symmetric Divergence for Interpretable Comparison of Representation Topology

    Yan Wang, Yue Zhu, Tianyang Hu · PDF
  102. Symmetry as Intervention; Causal Estimation with Data Augmentation

    Uzair Akbar, Niki Kilbertus, Hao Shen, Krikamol Muandet, Bo Dai · PDF
  103. Symmetry-Regularized Learning of Continuous Attractor Dynamics

    Arthur Liang, Ábel Ságodi, Piotr A Sokol, Il Memming Park · PDF
  104. The Binding Problem in Vision Models: Geometric, Functional, and Behavioral Approaches

    Lianghuan Huang, Yihao Li, Yingshan Chang, Saeed Salehi, Konrad Kording · PDF
  105. The Cue or not the Cue? A Mechanistic Study of Memory Mechanisms in RNNs

    Mehmet Harmanli, Fatih Dinc, Peng Yuan, Yucel Yemez, Bariscan Kurtkaya · PDF
  106. The Geometry and Topology of Modular Addition Representations

    Gabriela Moisescu-Pareja, Gavin McCracken, Colin Daniels, Harley Wiltzer, Vincent Létourneau, Jonathan Love · PDF
  107. The Geometry of Cortical Computation: Manifold Disentanglement and Predictive Dynamics in VCNet

    Brennen Hill, Zhang Xinyu, Timothy Putra Prasetio · PDF
  108. The Geometry of LLM Quantization: GPTQ as Babai's Nearest Plane Algorithm

    Jiale Chen, Yalda Shabanzadeh, Torsten Hoefler, Dan Alistarh · PDF
  109. The Human Brain as a Combinatorial Complex

    Valentina Sánchez, Çiçek Güven, Koen V. Haak, Theodore Papamarkou, Gonzalo Nápoles, Marie Safar Postma · PDF
  110. The Representations of Deep Neural Networks Trained on Dihedral Group Multiplication

    Gavin McCracken, Sihui Wei, Gabriela Moisescu-Pareja, Harley Wiltzer, Jonathan Love · PDF
  111. Theoretical Analysis of HyperCube Objective for Group Representation Learning

    Dongsung Huh, Halyun Jeong · PDF
  112. Time-Resolved Circuit Discovery in RNNs via Windowed Causal Interventions and Local Linearization

    Aishwarya Balwani · PDF
  113. Topological Neural Data Analysis with Behavioral Constraint

    Ren Wang, Dylan Le, Xue-Xin Wei · PDF
  114. Topological Signatures of Altered Brain Network Centrality in ADHD: A TDA Mapper Study

    Ali Nabi Duman · PDF
  115. Towards the Identification of Latent Structures in Language Embeddings

    Ryunosuke Abe, Takatomi Kubo, Kazushi Ikeda · PDF
  116. Tracking Memorization Geometry throughout the Diffusion Model Generative Process

    Jonathan Brokman, Itay Gershon, Omer Hofman, Guy Gilboa, Roman Vainshtein · PDF
  117. Transformers Represent Causal Abstractions

    Emiliano Altuzar, Julian Yocum, Cameron Allen · PDF
  118. Unified Generative Latent Representation for Functional Brain Graphs

    Subati Abulikemu, Tiago Azevedo, Michail Mamalakis, John Suckling · PDF
  119. Unifying Global Topology Manifolds and Local Persistent Homology for Data Pruning

    Arjun Roy, Prajna G. Malettira, Manish Nagaraj, Kaushik Roy · PDF
  120. Unifying Regression and Uncertainty Quantification with Contrastive Spectral Representation Learning

    Daniel Ordonez-Apraez, Vladimir R Kostic, Alek Fröhlich, Karim Lounici, Massimiliano Pontil · PDF
  121. Why all roads don’t lead to Rome: Representation geometry varies across the human visual cortical hierarchy

    Arna Ghosh, Zahraa Chorghay, Shahab Bakhtiari, Blake Aaron Richards · PDF