Why equivariance is so popular in Life and Material Science?

ML for Life and Material Science: From Theory to Industry Application

ICML

Mario Geiger

Fluid dynamics

Mechanics

Electrodynamics

Standard Model

Rotation

Translation

Boosts

(Galilean or Lorentz)

Time

translation

All Physics models are equivariant

AI models used for physics applications should be equivariant too

Equivariant models out there

Nequip

MACE

Why equivariance is so popular in Life and Material Science?

• familiarity with math
• suited datatype: pointclouds