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Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) relocate learnable nonlinearities from nodes to edges, demonstrating remarkable capabilities in scientific machine learning and interpretable modeling. However, current KAN implementations suffer from…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Alastair Poole , Stig McArthur , Saravan Kumar

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown strong performance on graph-structured data, but their reliance on graph connectivity often limits scalability and efficiency. Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs), a recent architecture with learnable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yuan-Hung Chao , Chia-Hsun Lu , Chih-Ya Shen

Deep learning models have revolutionized various domains, with Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) being a cornerstone for tasks like data regression and image classification. However, a recent study has introduced Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mohammadamin Moradi , Shirin Panahi , Erik Bollt , Ying-Cheng Lai

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks or KANs have shown the ability to outperform classical Deep Neural Networks, while using far fewer trainable parameters for regression problems on scientific domains. Even more powerful has been their…

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

For years, many neural networks have been developed based on the Kolmogorov-Arnold Representation Theorem (KART), which was created to address Hilbert's 13th problem. Recently, relying on KART, Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Hoang-Thang Ta , Duy-Quy Thai , Phuong-Linh Tran-Thi

We propose DropKAN (Dropout Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks) a regularization method that prevents co-adaptation of activation function weights in Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs). DropKAN functions by embedding the drop mask directly within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Mohammed Ghaith Altarabichi

The Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) is a new network architecture known for its high accuracy in several tasks such as function fitting and PDE solving. The superior expressive capability of KAN arises from the Kolmogorov-Arnold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Ruichen Qiu , Yibo Miao , Shiwen Wang , Lijia Yu , Yifan Zhu , Xiao-Shan Gao

In this paper, we introduce FC-KAN, a Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) that leverages combinations of popular mathematical functions such as B-splines, wavelets, and radial basis functions on low-dimensional data through element-wise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Hoang-Thang Ta , Duy-Quy Thai , Abu Bakar Siddiqur Rahman , Grigori Sidorov , Alexander Gelbukh

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) are a recently introduced neural architecture that replace fixed nonlinearities with trainable activation functions, offering enhanced flexibility and interpretability. While KANs have been applied…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Spyros Rigas , Dhruv Verma , Georgios Alexandridis , Yixuan Wang

Kolmogorov GAM (K-GAM) networks are shown to be an efficient architecture for training and inference. They are an additive model with an embedding that is independent of the function of interest. They provide an alternative to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Sarah Polson , Vadim Sokolov

This study explores the application of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) in predicting nuclear binding energies, leveraging their ability to decompose complex multi-parameter systems into simpler univariate functions. By utilizing data from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-10 Hao Liu , Jin Lei , Zhongzhou Ren

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 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…

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs), whose design is inspired-rather than dictated-by the Kolmogorov superposition theorem, have emerged as a structured alternative to MLPs. This review provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Amir Noorizadegan , Sifan Wang , Leevan Ling , Juan P. Dominguez-Morales

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

In this paper, we propose to use Sinc interpolation in the context of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks, neural networks with learnable activation functions, which recently gained attention as alternatives to Multilayer Perceptron. Many different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Tianchi Yu , Jingwei Qiu , Jiang Yang , Ivan Oseledets

The Kolmogorov-Arnold representation is a proven adequate replacement of a continuous multivariate function by an hierarchical structure of multiple functions of one variable. The proven existence of such representation inspired many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Andrew Polar , Michael Poluektov

Graph Representation Learning aims to create effective embeddings for nodes and edges that encapsulate their features and relationships. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) leverage neural networks to model complex graph structures. Recently, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Muhieddine Shebaro , Jelena Tešić

Kolmogorov Arnold Networks (KANs), built upon the Kolmogorov Arnold representation theorem (KAR), have demonstrated promising capabilities in expressing complex functions with fewer neurons. This is achieved by implementing learnable…