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The Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) has emerged as a promising neural network architecture for small-scale AI+Science applications. However, it suffers from inflexibility in modeling ridge functions, which is widely used in representing the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Zhiteng Zhou , Zhaoyue Xu , Yi Liu , Shizhao Wang

Inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem, KANs offer a novel framework for function approximation by replacing traditional neural network weights with learnable univariate functions. This design demonstrates significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zhangchi Zhao , Jun Shu , Deyu Meng , Zongben Xu

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

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks represent a recent advancement in machine learning, with the potential to outperform traditional perceptron-based neural networks across various domains as well as provide more interpretability with the use of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-26 E. Abasov , P. Volkov , G. Vorotnikov , L. Dudko , A. Zaborenko , E. Iudin , A. Markina , M. Perfilov

A new Kolmogorov-Arnold network (KAN) is proposed to approximate potentially irregular functions in high dimensions. We provide error bounds for this approximation, assuming that the Kolmogorov-Arnold expansion functions are sufficiently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Xavier Warin

In this work, we explore the use of a novel neural network architecture, the Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) as feature extractors for sensor-based (specifically IMU) Human Activity Recognition (HAR). Where conventional networks perform a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Mengxi Liu , Daniel Geißler , Dominique Nshimyimana , Sizhen Bian , Bo Zhou , Paul Lukowicz

The Kolmogorov-Arnold network (KAN) is a regression model that is based on a representation of an arbitrary continuous multivariate function by a composition of functions of a single variable. Experimentally-obtained datasets for regression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Andrew Polar , Michael Poluektov

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) is a groundbreaking model recently proposed by the MIT team, representing a revolutionary approach with the potential to be a game-changer in the field. This innovative concept has rapidly garnered worldwide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Kunpeng Xu , Lifei Chen , Shengrui Wang

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have recently emerged as a powerful alternative to traditional multilayer perceptrons. However, their reliance on predefined, bounded grids restricts their ability to approximate functions on unbounded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Alireza Moradzadeh , Srimukh Prasad Veccham , Lukasz Wawrzyniak , Miles Macklin , Saee G. Paliwal

Recent advancements in neural network design have given rise to the development of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs), which enhance speed, interpretability, and precision. This paper presents the Fractional Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (fKAN),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Alireza Afzal Aghaei

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 has long been dominated by multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs), which have demonstrated superiority over other optimizable models in various domains. Recently, a new alternative to MLPs has emerged - Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Alessandro Cacciatore , Valerio Morelli , Federica Paganica , Emanuele Frontoni , Lucia Migliorelli , Daniele Berardini

Algorithmic speedup of training common neural architectures is made difficult by the lack of structure guaranteed by the function compositions inherent to such networks. In contrast to multilayer perceptrons (MLPs), Kolmogorov-Arnold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Ben S. Southworth , Jonas A. Actor , Graham Harper , Eric C. Cyr

Symbolic discovery of governing equations is a long-standing goal in scientific machine learning, yet a fundamental trade-off persists between interpretability and scalable learning. Classical symbolic regression methods yield explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Salah A Faroughi , Farinaz Mostajeran , Amirhossein Arzani , Shirko Faroughi

We explore the integration of Kolmogorov Networks (KANs) into molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to improve interatomic potentials. We propose that widely used potentials, such as the Lennard-Jones (LJ) potential, the embedded atom model…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-26 Yuki Nagai , Masahiko Okumura

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have garnered attention for replacing fixed activation functions with learnable univariate functions, but they exhibit practical limitations, including high computational costs and performance deficits in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Hanseon Joo , Hayoung Choi , Ook Lee , Minjong Cheon

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

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of 18 distinct polynomials and their potential applications in Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) models as an alternative to traditional spline-based methods. The polynomials are classified into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Seyd Teymoor Seydi

In this work we propose CVKAN, a complex-valued Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN), to join the intrinsic interpretability of KANs and the advantages of Complex-Valued Neural Networks (CVNNs). We show how to transfer a KAN and the necessary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Matthias Wolff , Florian Eilers , Xiaoyi Jiang

The Kolmogorov-Arnold Theorem (KAT), or more generally, the Kolmogorov Superposition Theorem (KST), establishes that any non-linear multivariate function can be exactly represented as a finite superposition of non-linear univariate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Francesco Alesiani , Takashi Maruyama , Henrik Christiansen , Viktor Zaverkin