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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

In the field of finance, the prediction of individual credit default is of vital importance. However, existing methods face problems such as insufficient interpretability and transparency as well as limited performance when dealing with…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2024-11-28 Kun Liu , Jin Zhao

There is increasing interest in solving partial differential equations (PDEs) by casting them as machine learning problems. Recently, there has been a spike in exploring Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) as an alternative to traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Raghav Pant , Sikan Li , Xingjian Li , Hassan Iqbal , Krishna Kumar

Uncertainty quantification (UQ) plays a pivotal role in scientific machine learning, especially when surrogate models are used to approximate complex systems. Although multilayer perceptions (MLPs) are commonly employed as surrogates, they…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Zhiwei Gao , George Em Karniadakis

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

We present a novel approach to predicting the pressure and flow rate of flexible electrohydrodynamic pumps using the Kolmogorov-Arnold Network. Inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem, KAN replaces fixed activation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yanhong Peng , Yuxin Wang , Fangchao Hu , Miao He , Zebing Mao , Xia Huang , Jun Ding

The multilayer perceptron (MLP), a fundamental paradigm in current artificial intelligence, is widely applied in fields such as computer vision and natural language processing. However, the recently proposed Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Zhuoqin Yang , Jiansong Zhang , Xiaoling Luo , Zheng Lu , Linlin Shen

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

We study a novel large dimensional approximate factor model with regime changes in the loadings driven by a latent first order Markov process. By exploiting the equivalent linear representation of the model, we first recover the latent…

Econometrics · Economics 2024-12-04 Matteo Barigozzi , Daniele Massacci

Although Kolmogorov-Arnold-based interpretable networks (KANs) possess strong theoretical expressiveness, they suffer from severe parameter explosion and limited ability to capture high-frequency features in high-dimensional tasks. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jusheng Zhang , Yijia Fan , Kaitong Cai , Keze Wang , Wenhao Wang

Kolmogorov Arnold Networks (KANs) are recent architectural advancement in neural computation that offer a mathematically grounded alternative to standard neural networks. This study presents an empirical evaluation of KANs in context of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Pankaj Yadav , Vivek Vijay

To address the challenge of tractability for optimizing mathematical models in science and engineering, surrogate models are often employed. Recently, a new class of machine learning models named Kolmogorov Arnold Networks (KANs) have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Tanuj Karia , Giacomo Lastrucci , Artur M. Schweidtmann

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

Variational Autoencoders are powerful models for unsupervised learning. However deep models with several layers of dependent stochastic variables are difficult to train which limits the improvements obtained using these highly expressive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-30 Casper Kaae Sønderby , Tapani Raiko , Lars Maaløe , Søren Kaae Sønderby , Ole Winther

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

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 (KANs) are a class of neural networks that have received increased attention in recent literature. In contrast to MLPs, KANs leverage parameterized, trainable activation functions and offer several benefits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Jamison Moody , James Usevitch

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs), a novel type of neural network, have recently gained popularity and attention due to the ability to substitute multi-layer perceptions (MLPs) in artificial intelligence (AI) with higher accuracy and…

Data science has emerged as fourth paradigm of scientific exploration. However many machine learning models operate as black boxes offering limited insight into the reasoning behind their predictions. This lack of transparency is one of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Sudhanva Kulkarni

Multi-layer perceptrons (MLP's) have been extensively utilized in discovering Deep Koopman operators for linearizing nonlinear dynamics. With the emergence of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) as a more efficient and accurate alternative to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 George Nehma , Madhur Tiwari