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#1 Lorentz Local Canonicalization: How to make any Network Lorentz-Equivariant [PDF] [Copy] [Kimi] [REL]

Authors: Jonas Spinner, Luigi Favaro, Peter Lippmann, Sebastian Pitz, Gerrit Gerhartz, Tilman Plehn, Fred A. Hamprecht

Lorentz-equivariant neural networks are becoming the leading architectures for high-energy physics. Current implementations rely on specialized layers, limiting architectural choices. We introduce Lorentz Local Canonicalization (LLoCa), a general framework that renders any backbone network exactly Lorentz-equivariant. Using equivariantly predicted local reference frames, we construct LLoCa-transformers and graph networks. We adapt a recent approach for geometric message passing to the non-compact Lorentz group, allowing propagation of space-time tensorial features. Data augmentation emerges from LLoCa as a special choice of reference frame. Our models achieve competitive and state-of-the-art accuracy on relevant particle physics tasks, while being $4\times$ faster and using $10\times$ fewer FLOPs.

Subject: NeurIPS.2025 - Poster