Many-body mobility edges in one dimension revealed by efficient and interpretable feature-based learning with Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
Abstract
We study the many-body localization (MBL) transition in interacting fermionic systems on disordered one-dimensional lattices using a physics-informed machine-learning framework. Instead of feeding full many-body wave functions into the model, we construct a compact feature representation based on four physically motivated observables: the inverse participation ratio, the Shannon entropy, the many-body hybridization parameter, and the mean level-spacing ratio. These quantities capture complementary aspects of localization, entanglement, and spectral correlations, and are used to train a Kolmogorov--Arnold Network (KAN) classifier on eigenstates deep in the weak and strong disorder regimes. The resulting KAN achieves a validation accuracy exceeding , comparable to that of convolutional neural networks trained directly on high-dimensional wave-function data, while requiring substantially reduced input dimensionality and significantly shorter training time. Applying the trained classifier across the full energy spectrum yields energy-resolved phase diagrams that reveal a clear many-body mobility edge and provide a consistent estimate of the critical disorder strength. The approach is inherently extensible: additional physically relevant observables can be incorporated into the feature space in a systematic manner without altering the overall architecture. Our results demonstrate that feature-based learning with KAN provides an efficient, scalable, and interpretable methodology for identifying many-body localization transitions, offering a practical alternative to raw-data-based neural network approaches.
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@article{arxiv.2603.21807,
title = {Many-body mobility edges in one dimension revealed by efficient and interpretable feature-based learning with Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks},
author = {Siqi Dai and Tian-Cheng Yi and Xingbo Wei and Yunbo Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.21807},
year = {2026}
}
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11 pages, 6 figures