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By utilising their adaptive activation functions, Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) can be applied in a novel way for the diverse machine learning tasks, including cyber threat detection. KANs substitute conventional linear weights with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Mohammed Hassanin

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 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

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

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

In traditional neural network architectures, a multilayer perceptron (MLP) is typically employed as a classification block following the feature extraction stage. However, the Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) presents a promising alternative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Valeriy Lobanov , Nikita Firsov , Evgeny Myasnikov , Roman Khabibullin , Artem Nikonorov

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 (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

The Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been the dominant and effective approach for general computer vision tasks. Recently, Kolmogorov-Arnold neural networks (KANs), based on the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem, have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zhaoxiang Liu , Zhicheng Ma , Kaikai Zhao , Kai Wang , Shiguo Lian

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

This paper introduces a novel application of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) to time series forecasting, leveraging their adaptive activation functions for enhanced predictive modeling. Inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Cristian J. Vaca-Rubio , Luis Blanco , Roberto Pereira , Màrius Caus

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

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

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have demonstrated an exceptional ability to learn complex functions on clean, low-dimensional data but struggle to maintain performance on noisy and imperfect real-world datasets. In contrast, conventional…

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) were recently introduced as an alternative representation model to MLP. Herein, we employ KANs to construct physics-informed machine learning models (PIKANs) and deep operator models (DeepOKANs) for solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Khemraj Shukla , Juan Diego Toscano , Zhicheng Wang , Zongren Zou , George Em Karniadakis

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

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) introduce a paradigm of neural modeling that implements learnable functions on the edges of the networks, diverging from the traditional node-centric activations in neural networks. This work assesses the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Basim Azam , Naveed Akhtar

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

Reinforcement learning (RL) has been increasingly applied to network control problems, such as load balancing. However, existing RL approaches often suffer from lack of interpretability and difficulty in extracting controller equations. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Kamal Singh , Sami Marouani , Ahmad Al Sheikh , Pham Tran Anh Quang , Amaury Habrard

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have recently emerged as a novel approach to function approximation, demonstrating remarkable potential in various domains. Despite their theoretical promise, the robustness of KANs under adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Tal Alter , Raz Lapid , Moshe Sipper