Complex-Valued GNNs for Distributed Basis-Invariant Control of Planar Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02615v1
• Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:08:39 GMT
• Title: Complex-Valued GNNs for Distributed Basis-Invariant Control of Planar Systems
• Abstract summary: Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a well-regarded tool for learned control of networked dynamical systems.<n>Current distributed GNN architectures assume that all nodes in the network collect geometric observations in compatible bases.<n>This paper presents a GNN parametrization that is globally invariant to choice of local basis.
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• Abstract: Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a well-regarded tool for learned control of networked dynamical systems due to their ability to be deployed in a distributed manner. However, current distributed GNN architectures assume that all nodes in the network collect geometric observations in compatible bases, which limits the usefulness of such controllers in GPS-denied and compass-denied environments. This paper presents a GNN parametrization that is globally invariant to choice of local basis. 2D geometric features and transformations between bases are expressed in the complex domain. Inside each GNN layer, complex-valued linear layers with phase-equivariant activation functions are used. When viewed from a fixed global frame, all policies learned by this architecture are strictly invariant to choice of local frames. This architecture is shown to increase the data efficiency, tracking performance, and generalization of learned control when compared to a real-valued baseline on an imitation learning flocking task.

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