English
Related papers

Related papers: Smooth Kolmogorov Arnold networks enabling structu…

200 papers

This paper tests whether Kolmogorov--Arnold Networks (KAN 2.0) are genuinely more noise-robust than Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP) and XGBoost for stellar classification (star/galaxy/quasar, 100,000 SDSS DR17 objects). A naive comparison…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-29 Kristian Sestak

By utilising their adaptive activation functions, Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) can be applied in a novel way for the diverse machine learning tasks, including cyber threat detection. KANs substitute conventional linear weights with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Mohammed Hassanin

Multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) are a workhorse machine learning architecture, used in a variety of modern deep learning frameworks. However, recently Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have become increasingly popular due to their success on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Jonas A. Actor , Graham Harper , Ben Southworth , Eric C. Cyr

This paper introduces Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) as an enhancement to the traditional linear probing method in transfer learning. Linear probing, often applied to the final layer of pre-trained models, is limited by its inability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Sheng Shen , Rabih Younes

In this paper, we present an innovative federated learning (FL) approach that utilizes Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) for classification tasks. By utilizing the adaptive activation capabilities of KANs in a federated framework, we aim to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Engin Zeydan , Cristian J. Vaca-Rubio , Luis Blanco , Roberto Pereira , Marius Caus , Abdullah Aydeger

Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) offer a potent combination of accuracy and interpretability, thanks to their compositions of learnable univariate activation functions. However, the activations of well-fitting KANs tend to exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 James Bagrow

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) were recently introduced as an alternative representation model to MLP. Herein, we employ KANs to construct physics-informed machine learning models (PIKANs) and deep operator models (DeepOKANs) for solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Khemraj Shukla , Juan Diego Toscano , Zhicheng Wang , Zongren Zou , George Em Karniadakis

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have inspired numerous works exploring their applications across a wide range of scientific problems, with the potential to replace Multilayer Perceptrons (MLPs). While many KANs are designed using basis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hoang-Thang Ta , Anh Tran

To address the challenge of tractability for optimizing mathematical models in science and engineering, surrogate models are often employed. Recently, a new class of machine learning models named Kolmogorov Arnold Networks (KANs) have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Tanuj Karia , Giacomo Lastrucci , Artur M. Schweidtmann

The Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem offers a theoretical alternative to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) by placing learnable univariate functions on edges rather than nodes. While recent implementations such as Kolmogorov-Arnold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Oscar Eliasson

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) have shown excellent capability in complex hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. However, these models require a significant number of training data and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Ali Jamali , Swalpa Kumar Roy , Danfeng Hong , Bing Lu , Pedram Ghamisi

The need for scalable and expressive models in machine learning is paramount, particularly in applications requiring both structural depth and flexibility. Traditional deep learning methods, such as multilayer perceptrons (MLP), offer depth…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Shrenik Zinage , Sudeepta Mondal , Soumalya Sarkar

In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the de facto tool for learning node and graph representations. Most GNNs typically consist of a sequence of neighborhood aggregation (a.k.a., message-passing) layers, within which…

Small-angle scattering (SAS) techniques are indispensable tools for probing the structure of soft materials. However, traditional analytical models often face limitations in structural inversion for complex systems, primarily due to the…

This paper presents an experimental study of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) applied to computer vision tasks, particularly image classification. KANs introduce learnable activation functions on edges, offering flexible non-linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Karthik Mohan , Hanxiao Wang , Xiatian Zhu

Recent work has established an alternative to traditional multi-layer perceptron neural networks in the form of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN). The general KAN framework uses learnable activation functions on the edges of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Eric A. F. Reinhardt , P. R. Dinesh , Sergei Gleyzer

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have recently emerged as a compelling alternative to multilayer perceptrons, offering enhanced interpretability via functional decomposition. However, existing KAN architectures, including spline-,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Sidharth S. Menon , Ameya D. Jagtap

Federated Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (F-KANs) have already been proposed, but their assessment is at an initial stage. We present a comparison between KANs (using B-splines and Radial Basis Functions as activation functions) and Multi-…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Arthur Mendonça Sasse , Claudio Miceli de Farias

In this paper, we compare the performance of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) and Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) networks on irregular or noisy functions. We control the number of parameters and the size of the training samples to ensure a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Chen Zeng , Jiahui Wang , Haoran Shen , Qiao Wang

Kolmogorov Arnold Networks (KANs) are neural architectures inspired by the Kolmogorov Arnold representation theorem that leverage B Spline parameterizations for flexible, locally adaptive function approximation. Although KANs can capture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Wenhao Liang , Wei Emma Zhang , Lin Yue , Miao Xu , Olaf Maennel , Weitong Chen