Foundations of Equivariant Deep Learning: Unifying Graph and Sheaf Neural Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.03798v1
• Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2026 09:59:11 GMT
• Title: Foundations of Equivariant Deep Learning: Unifying Graph and Sheaf Neural Networks
• Abstract summary: We develop order-equivariant neural networks (OENN), which generalize standard graph message passing and sheaf neural networks.<n>We show that OENN can be extended further to CENN, which gives the general form of equivariant neural networks.
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• Abstract: Symmetry is everywhere in nature and society. Geometric deep learning exploits symmetries in data to improve the performance and efficiency of deep learning systems. In this paper, we extend geometric deep learning to utilize richer symmetry structures. Specifically, we develop order-equivariant neural networks (OENN), which generalize standard graph message passing and sheaf neural networks via the theory of equivariant bundles over face posets (face categories). We (i) characterize all linear order-equivariant maps, (ii) build OENN layers, and (iii) prove universal approximation theorems (UATs) for continuous order-equivariant maps, which are new results even when restricted to sheaf neural networks (for which no UAT was known before). We illustrate the framework on graph and sheaf models. Our results can also be seen as extending the known UAT for graph neural networks to a more general setting that subsumes sheaf neural networks as well. In addition, we show that OENN can be extended further to CENN, Category-Equivariant Neural Network, which gives the general form of equivariant neural networks as well as of equivariant universal approximation theorems, allowing us to leverage categorical symmetry in data (e.g., non-invertible symmetries on multiple objects with compositional relations on those symmetries).

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