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We study the Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN), recently proposed as an alternative to the classical Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), in the application for differentially private model training. Using the DP-SGD algorithm, we demonstrate that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Nikita P. Kalinin , Simone Bombari , Hossein Zakerinia , Christoph H. Lampert

Dropout and DropConnect are well-known techniques that apply a consistent drop rate to randomly deactivate neurons or edges in a neural network layer during training. This paper introduces a novel methodology that assigns dynamic drop rates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yuan-Chih Yang , Hung-Hsuan Chen

We introduce evolutionary Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (EvoKAN), a novel framework for solving complex partial differential equations (PDEs). EvoKAN builds on Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs), where activation functions are spline based and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Guang Lin , Changhong Mou , Jiahao Zhang

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) were proposed as an alternative to traditional neural network architectures based on multilayer perceptrons (MLP-NNs). The potential advantages of KANs over MLP-NNs, including significantly enhanced…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-29 Ryan Jacobs , Lane E. Schultz , Dane Morgan

Kolmogorov--Arnold Networks (KANs), a recently proposed neural network architecture, have gained significant attention in the deep learning community, due to their potential as a viable alternative to multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Yihang Gao , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Recently, Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have been proposed as an alternative to multilayer perceptrons, suggesting advantages in performance and interpretability. We study a typical binary event classification task in high-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-27 Johannes Erdmann , Florian Mausolf , Jan Lukas Späh

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have recently gained attention as an alternative to traditional Multilayer Perceptrons (MLPs) in deep learning frameworks. KANs have been integrated into various deep learning architectures such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Ali Kashefi

Dropout and other feature noising schemes control overfitting by artificially corrupting the training data. For generalized linear models, dropout performs a form of adaptive regularization. Using this viewpoint, we show that the dropout…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-11-04 Stefan Wager , Sida Wang , Percy Liang

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) are a new class of neural network architecture representing a promising alternative to the Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), demonstrating improved expressiveness and interpretability. However, KANs suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Cale Coffman , Lizhong Chen

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) offer a structured and interpretable framework for multivariate function approximation by composing univariate transformations through additive or multiplicative aggregation. This paper establishes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Wei Liu , Eleni Chatzi , Zhilu Lai

Deep Neural Networks often require good regularizers to generalize well. Dropout is one such regularizer that is widely used among Deep Learning practitioners. Recent work has shown that Dropout can also be viewed as performing Approximate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Suraj Srinivas , R. Venkatesh Babu

In neural networks, developing regularization algorithms to settle overfitting is one of the major study areas. We propose a new approach for the regularization of neural networks by the local Rademacher complexity called LocalDrop. A new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Ziqing Lu , Chang Xu , Bo Du , Takashi Ishida , Lefei Zhang , Masashi Sugiyama

Different techniques have emerged in the deep learning scenario, such as Convolutional Neural Networks, Deep Belief Networks, and Long Short-Term Memory Networks, to cite a few. In lockstep, regularization methods, which aim to prevent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Claudio Filipi Goncalves do Santos , Danilo Colombo , Mateus Roder , João Paulo Papa

This paper presents the application of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) in classifying metal surface defects. Specifically, steel surfaces are analyzed to detect defects such as cracks, inclusions, patches, pitted surfaces, and scratches.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Maciej Krzywda , Mariusz Wermiński , Szymon Łukasik , Amir H. Gandomi

Function approximation using Haar basis systems offers an efficient implementation when compressed via Patricia trees while retaining the flexibility of wavelets for both global and local fitting. However, like B-spline-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Susumu Katayama

Over-parameterization is one of the inherent characteristics of modern deep neural networks, which can often be overcome by leveraging regularization methods, such as Dropout. Usually, these methods are applied globally and all the input…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Li Ding , Lee Spector

Dropout has proven to be an effective technique for regularization and preventing the co-adaptation of neurons in deep neural networks (DNN). It randomly drops units with a probability $p$ during the training stage of DNN. Dropout also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Zongjie Ma , Abdul Sattar , Jun Zhou , Qingliang Chen , Kaile Su

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) has recently attracted significant attention as a promising alternative to traditional Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP). Despite their theoretical appeal, KAN require validation on large-scale benchmark…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Chang Dong , Liangwei Zheng , Weitong Chen

The emergence of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) has sparked significant interest and debate within the scientific community. This paper explores the application of KANs in the domain of computer vision (CV). We examine the convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ivan Drokin

Dropout is a popular technique for regularizing artificial neural networks. Dropout networks are generally trained by minibatch gradient descent with a dropout mask turning off some of the units---a different pattern of dropout is applied…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Ben Graham , Jeremy Reizenstein , Leigh Robinson