2026
Normalization Equivariance for Arbitrary Backbones, with Application to Image Denoising
ICML 2026poster
Normalization Equivariance (NE), equivariance to global contrast and brightness transforms, improves robustness to distribution shift in image-to-image prediction. Existing methods enforce this prior by constraining internal layers to NE-compatible families, limiting compatibility with standard comp…