Symmetries Here and There, Combined Everywhere: Cross-space Symmetry Compositions in Robotics

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

Robots exhibit a rich variety of symmetries arising from their mechanical structure and the properties of their tasks: SE(3) invariance in pose estimation, permutation symmetry among agents, and scaling symmetry in dynamics. Existing methods typically exploit one symmetry at a time, leaving cross-space interactions unmodeled and wasting the combined representational power of multiple symmetries. This paper formalizes cross-space symmetry compositions as group products acting on heterogeneous state and action spaces. The authors derive equivariant network architectures that respect these composed symmetries without manual feature engineering. They prove that such networks generalize better across variations in robot morphology, task geometry, and environmental configuration than networks encoding only a single symmetry group. Empirical evaluation on a suite of manipulation and locomotion benchmarks demonstrates consistent improvements over single-symmetry baselines. Notably, the composed-symmetry networks achieve gains exceeding 20 percent in zero-shot transfer to unseen robot morphologies, suggesting that the learned representations capture transferable physical structure rather than dataset-specific patterns.

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.

Additional Notes

Overview

  • E(3)-Equivariant Graph Neural Networks for Data-Efficient Dynamics
  • Eureka: Neural Network Synthesis via LLMs
  • Geometric Deep Learning: Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges
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