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Recent Transformer- and MLP-based models have demonstrated strong performance in long-term time series forecasting, yet Transformers remain limited by their quadratic complexity and permutation-equivariant attention, while MLPs exhibit…

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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

KAN-PCA is an autoencoder that uses a KAN as encoder and a linear map as decoder. It generalizes classical PCA by replacing linear projections with learned B-spline functions on each edge. The motivation is to capture more variance than…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-03-31 David Breazu

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

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have shown potential as an alternative to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) in neural networks, providing universal function approximation with fewer parameters and reduced memory usage. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Victor Augusto Kich , Jair Augusto Bottega , Raul Steinmetz , Ricardo Bedin Grando , Ayano Yorozu , Akihisa Ohya

Recent advancements in both representation learning and function learning have demonstrated substantial promise across diverse domains of artificial intelligence. However, the effective integration of these paradigms poses a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Yunhong He , Yifeng Xie , Zhengqing Yuan , Lichao Sun

Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) as an alternative to multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) are a recent development demonstrating strong potential for data-driven modeling. This work applies KANs as the backbone of a neural ordinary differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Benjamin C. Koenig , Suyong Kim , Sili Deng

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

Time series classification is a relevant step supporting decision-making processes in various domains, and deep neural models have shown promising performance in this respect. Despite significant advancements in deep learning, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Irina Barašin , Blaž Bertalanič , Mihael Mohorčič , Carolina Fortuna

Kolmogorov--Arnold networks (KANs) have demonstrated their potential as an alternative to multi-layer perceptions (MLPs) in various domains, especially for science-related tasks. However, transfer learning of KANs remains a relatively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Yihang Gao , Michael K. Ng , Vincent Y. F. Tan

This systematic review explores the theoretical foundations, evolution, applications, and future potential of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN), a neural network model inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem. KANs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Shriyank Somvanshi , Syed Aaqib Javed , Md Monzurul Islam , Diwas Pandit , Subasish Das

Conditional Autoencoders (CAEs) offer a flexible, interpretable approach for estimating latent asset-pricing factors from firm characteristics. However, existing studies usually limit the latent factor dimension to around K=5 due to…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-11-24 Ryan Engel , Yu Chen , Pawel Polak , Ioana Boier

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks have recently been introduced as a flexible alternative to multi-layer Perceptron architectures. In this paper, we examine the training dynamics of different KAN architectures and compare them with corresponding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Shairoz Sohail

This work introduces Probabilistic Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (P-KAN), a novel probabilistic extension of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) for time series forecasting. By replacing scalar weights with spline-based functional connections and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Cristian J. Vaca-Rubio , Roberto Pereira , Luis Blanco , Engin Zeydan , Màrius Caus

Predictive modeling on web-scale tabular data with billions of instances and hundreds of heterogeneous numerical features faces significant scalability challenges. These features exhibit anisotropy, heavy-tailed distributions, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Mingming Zhang , Pengfei Shi , Zhiqing Xiao , Feng Zhao , Guandong Sun , Yulin Kang , Ruizhe Gao , Ningtao Wang , Xing Fu , Weiqiang Wang , Junbo Zhao

We introduce a framework for unsupervised learning of structured predictors with overlapping, global features. Each input's latent representation is predicted conditional on the observable data using a feature-rich conditional random field.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Waleed Ammar , Chris Dyer , Noah A. Smith

The discovery of high-performance thermoelectric materials requires models that are both accurate and interpretable. Traditional machine learning approaches, while effective at property prediction, often act as black boxes and provide…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-15 Marco Fronzi , Michael J. Ford , Kamal Singh Nayal , Olexandr Isayev , Catherine Stampfl

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have gained significant attention as an alternative to traditional multilayer perceptrons, with proponents claiming superior interpretability and performance through learnable univariate activation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yuntian Hou , Tianrui Ji , Di Zhang , Angelos Stefanidis

In this paper, we present Convolutional Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks, a novel architecture that integrates the learnable spline-based activation functions of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) into convolutional layers. By replacing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Alexander Dylan Bodner , Antonio Santiago Tepsich , Jack Natan Spolski , Santiago Pourteau

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