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This paper presents an experimental study of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) applied to computer vision tasks, particularly image classification. KANs introduce learnable activation functions on edges, offering flexible non-linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Karthik Mohan , Hanxiao Wang , Xiatian Zhu

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

Inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem, we propose Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) as promising alternatives to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs). While MLPs have fixed activation functions on nodes ("neurons"), KANs have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Ziming Liu , Yixuan Wang , Sachin Vaidya , Fabian Ruehle , James Halverson , Marin Soljačić , Thomas Y. Hou , Max Tegmark

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) have garnered attention for replacing fixed activation functions with learnable univariate functions, but they exhibit practical limitations, including high computational costs and performance deficits in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Hanseon Joo , Hayoung Choi , Ook Lee , Minjong Cheon

Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) is a network structure recently proposed by Liu et al. (2024) that offers improved interpretability and a more parsimonious design in many science-oriented tasks compared to multi-layer perceptrons. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Xianyang Zhang , Huijuan Zhou

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have recently emerged as a flexible and parameter-efficient alternative to conventional neural networks. Unlike standard architectures that use fixed node-based activations, KANs place learnable functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Enrique Luna Villagómez , Vladimir Mahalec

Tabular data analysis presents unique challenges that arise from heterogeneous feature types, missing values, and complex feature interactions. While traditional machine learning methods like gradient boosting often outperform deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Ali Eslamian , Alireza Afzal Aghaei , Qiang Cheng

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) were proposed as an alternative to traditional neural network architectures based on multilayer perceptrons (MLP-NNs). The potential advantages of KANs over MLP-NNs, including significantly enhanced…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-29 Ryan Jacobs , Lane E. Schultz , Dane Morgan

Weight-space models learn directly from the parameters of neural networks, enabling tasks such as predicting their accuracy on new datasets. Naive methods -- like applying MLPs to flattened parameters -- perform poorly, making the design of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Guy Bar-Shalom , Ami Tavory , Itay Evron , Maya Bechler-Speicher , Ido Guy , Haggai Maron

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

Characterizing crystalline energy landscapes is essential to predicting thermodynamic stability, electronic structure, and functional behavior. While machine learning (ML) enables rapid property predictions, the "black-box" nature of most…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-07 Gen Zu , Ning Mao , Claudia Felser , Yang Zhang

Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) represent data features by learning the activation functions and demonstrate superior accuracy with fewer parameters, FLOPs, GPU memory usage (Memory), shorter training time (TraT), and testing time (TesT)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Yanheng Wang , Xiaohan Yu , Yongsheng Gao , Jianjun Sha , Jian Wang , Shiyong Yan , Kai Qin , Yonggang Zhang , Lianru Gao

This paper proposes a novel approach for designing Single-Parameterized Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (SKAN) by utilizing a Single-Parameterized Function (SFunc) constructed from trigonometric functions. Three new SKAN variants are developed:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Zhijie Chen , Xinglin Zhang

To address the trade-off between computational efficiency and adherence to Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) principles, we propose TruKAN, a new architecture based on the KAN structure and learnable activation functions. TruKAN replaces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ali Bayeh , Samira Sadaoui , Malek Mouhoub

Medical image segmentation demands models that achieve high accuracy while maintaining computational efficiency and clinical interpretability. While recent Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) offer powerful adaptive non-linearities, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Guojie Li , Tianyi Liu , Anwar P. P. Abdul Majeed , Muhammad Ateeq , Anh Nguyen , Fan Zhang

DreamerV3 is a state-of-the-art online model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) algorithm known for remarkable sample efficiency. Concurrently, Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have emerged as a promising alternative to Multi-Layer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Chenwei Shi , Xueyu Luan

Inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem and Kurkova's principle of using approximate representations, we propose the Kurkova-Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KKAN), a new two-block architecture that combines robust multi-layer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Juan Diego Toscano , Li-Lian Wang , George Em Karniadakis

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

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