Equivariant Mesh Attention Networks

Equivariance to symmetries has proven to be a powerful inductive bias in deep learning research. Recent works on mesh processing have concentrated on various kinds of natural symmetries, including translations, rotations, scaling, node permutations, and gauge transformations. To date, no existing architecture is equivariant to all of these transformations. Moreover, previous implementations have not always applied these symmetry transformations to the test dataset. This inhibits the ability to determine whether the model attains the claimed equivariance properties. In this paper, we present an attention-based architecture for mesh data that is provably equivariant to all transformations mentioned above. We carry out experiments on the FAUST and TOSCA datasets, and apply the mentioned symmetries to the test set only. Our results confirm that our proposed architecture is equivariant, and therefore robust, to these local/global transformations.