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Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have gained attention for their potential to outperform Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) in terms of parameter efficiency and interpretability. Unlike traditional MLPs, KANs use learnable non-linear…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Sohaib Errabii , Olivier Sentieys , Marcello Traiola

The recently proposed Kolmogorov-Arnold network (KAN) is a promising alternative to multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) for data-driven modeling. While original KAN layers were only capable of representing the addition operator, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Benjamin C. Koenig , Suyong Kim , Sili Deng

In resource constraint settings, adaptation to downstream classification tasks involves fine-tuning the final layer of a classifier (i.e. classification head) while keeping rest of the model weights frozen. Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Abdullah Al Imran , Md Farhan Ishmam

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 the realm of deep learning, the Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) has emerged as a potential alternative to multilayer projections (MLPs). However, its applicability to vision tasks has not been extensively validated. In our study, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Minjong Cheon

The ``black-box'' nature of deep learning models presents a significant barrier to their adoption for scientific discovery, where interpretability is paramount. This challenge is especially pronounced in discovering the governing equations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Riccardo Cappi , Paolo Frazzetto , Nicolò Navarin , Alessandro Sperduti

The Transformer architecture has dominated machine learning in a wide range of tasks. The specific characteristic of this architecture is an expensive scaled dot-product attention mechanism that models the inter-token interactions, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zizhao Hu , Mohammad Rostami

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

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

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) are a recent neural network architecture offering an alternative to Multilayer Perceptrons (MLPs) with improved explainability and expressibility. However, KANs are significantly slower than MLPs due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Eduardo Said Merin-Martinez , Andres Mendez-Vazquez , Eduardo Rodriguez-Tello

Inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem and Kurkova's principle of using approximate representations, we propose the Kurkova-Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KKAN), a new two-block architecture that combines robust multi-layer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Juan Diego Toscano , Li-Lian Wang , George Em Karniadakis

Multilayer Perceptrons (MLPs) have long been a cornerstone in deep learning, known for their capacity to model complex relationships. Recently, Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have emerged as a compelling alternative, utilizing highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Farhad Pourkamali-Anaraki

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

Much of the progress in contemporary NLP has come from learning representations, such as masked language model (MLM) contextual embeddings, that turn challenging problems into simple classification tasks. But how do we quantify and explain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Gregory Yauney , David Mimno

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) offer an efficient and interpretable alternative to traditional multi-layer perceptron (MLP) architectures due to their finite network topology. However, according to the results of Kolmogorov and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Moein E. Samadi , Younes Müller , Andreas Schuppert

SMLP: Symbolic Machine Learning Prover an open source tool for exploration and optimization of systems represented by machine learning models. SMLP uses symbolic reasoning for ML model exploration and optimization under verification and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Franz Brauße , Zurab Khasidashvili , Konstantin Korovin

Transformers stand as the cornerstone of mordern deep learning. Traditionally, these models rely on multi-layer perceptron (MLP) layers to mix the information between channels. In this paper, we introduce the Kolmogorov-Arnold Transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Xingyi Yang , Xinchao Wang

Deep-learning models such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) have been successfully used for process-mining tasks. They have achieved better performance for different predictive tasks than traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Ishwar Venugopal , Jessica Töllich , Michael Fairbank , Ansgar Scherp

Federated Learning (FL) enables model training across decentralized devices without sharing raw data, thereby preserving privacy in sensitive domains like healthcare. In this paper, we evaluate Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Youngjoon Lee , Jinu Gong , Joonhyuk Kang

We initiate the first empirical study on the use of MLP architectures for vision-and-language (VL) fusion. Through extensive experiments on 5 VL tasks and 5 robust VQA benchmarks, we find that: (i) Without pre-training, using MLPs for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Yixin Nie , Linjie Li , Zhe Gan , Shuohang Wang , Chenguang Zhu , Michael Zeng , Zicheng Liu , Mohit Bansal , Lijuan Wang