Symmetries Here and There, Combined Everywhere: Cross-space Symmetry Compositions in Robotics
Loizos Hadjiloizou, Rodrigo Pérez-Dattari, Noémie Jaquier · German Aerospace Center (DLR), KTH Royal Institute of Technology · 2026
Summary
Formalizes cross-space symmetry compositions in robotics and derives equivariant network architectures that exploit multiple simultaneous symmetries for improved generalization.
Abstract Summary
Key Points
- Formalizes cross-space symmetry compositions in robotics.
- Derives equivariant architectures respecting multiple simultaneous symmetries.
- Proves improved generalization across robot morphologies and task geometries.
- Evaluated on manipulation and locomotion benchmarks.
- Achieves over 20% better zero-shot transfer on unseen morphologies.
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- Paper (PDF): 2605.22639
- arXiv: 2605.22639
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