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The field of scientific machine learning, which originally utilized multilayer perceptrons (MLPs), is increasingly adopting Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) for data encoding. This shift is driven by the limitations of MLPs, including poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Salah A. Faroughi , Farinaz Mostajeran , Amin Hamed Mashhadzadeh , Shirko Faroughi

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have emerged as a promising alternative to traditional Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs), offering enhanced interpretability and a solid mathematical foundation. However, their parameter efficiency remains a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Di Zhang

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) offer a structured and interpretable framework for multivariate function approximation by composing univariate transformations through additive or multiplicative aggregation. This paper establishes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Wei Liu , Eleni Chatzi , Zhilu Lai

The landscape of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) is rapidly expanding, yet lacks a unified theoretical framework and a clear principle for efficient architecture design. This paper addresses these gaps with three core contributions.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Zhijie Chen , Xinglin Zhang , Hongshu Guo , Yue-Jiao Gong

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

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

The development of Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) marks a significant shift from traditional multi-layer perceptrons in deep learning. Initially, KANs employed B-spline curves as their primary basis function, but their inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Alireza Afzal Aghaei

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

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

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

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

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) offer a theoretically grounded alternative to multi-layer perceptrons by representing multivariate functions as compositions of univariate basis functions. However, a critical limitation of KANs is the need…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Francesco Alesiani , Henrik Christiansen , Federico Errica

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have significantly advanced various fields by effectively recognizing patterns and solving complex problems. Despite these advancements, their interpretability remains a critical challenge, especially in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Alejandro Polo-Molina , David Alfaya , Jose Portela

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) \cite{liu2024kan} were very recently proposed as a potential alternative to the prevalent architectural backbone of many deep learning models, the multi-layer perceptron (MLP). KANs have seen success in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Yixuan Wang , Jonathan W. Siegel , Ziming Liu , Thomas Y. Hou

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

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) represent an innovation in neural network architectures, offering a compelling alternative to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) in models such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Recurrent Neural Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Hoang-Thang Ta , Duy-Quy Thai , Anh Tran , Grigori Sidorov , Alexander Gelbukh

Interpreting complex datasets remains a major challenge for scientists, particularly due to high dimensionality and collinearity among variables. We introduce a novel application of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) to enhance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Luis A. De la Fuente , Hernan A. Moreno , Laura V. Alvarez , Hoshin V. Gupta

Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) rely on pre-defined, fixed activation functions, imposing a static inductive bias that forces the network to approximate complex topologies solely through increased depth and width. Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Andrés Ortiz , Nicolás J. Gallego-Molina , Carmen Jiménez-Mesa , Juan M. Górriz , Javier Ramírez

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

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