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#group-theory
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2026-08-27
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Linear Algebra
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Symmetry and Equivariance — How Group Theory Shapes Network Design
How to bake "a shifted cat is still a cat" into the architecture itself — from the four axioms of a group, through the definition of equivariance, to why convolution is the only translation-equivariant linear map and how AlphaFold handles 3D geometry. Including the cases where imposing symmetry backfires.