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The widespread use of Multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) often relies on a fixed activation function (e.g., ReLU, Sigmoid, Tanh) for all nodes within the hidden layers. While effective in many scenarios, this uniformity may limit the networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Hy Nguyen , Duy Khoa Pham , Srikanth Thudumu , Hung Du , Rajesh Vasa , Kon Mouzakis

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) uniquely combine high accuracy with interpretability, making them valuable for scientific modeling. However, it is unclear a priori how deep a network needs to be for any given task, and deeper KANs can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 James Bagrow , Josh Bongard

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) are a new class of neural network architecture representing a promising alternative to the Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), demonstrating improved expressiveness and interpretability. However, KANs suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Cale Coffman , Lizhong Chen

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) promise higher expressive capability and stronger interpretability than Multi-Layer Perceptron, particularly in the domain of AI for Science. However, practical adoption has been hindered by low GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Mingkun Yu , Heming Zhong , Dan Huang , Yutong Lu , Jiazhi Jiang

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image recognition is vital for disaster monitoring, military reconnaissance, and ocean observation. However, large SAR image sizes hinder deep learning deployment on resource-constrained edge devices, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Pan Yi , Weijie Li , Xiaodong Chen , Jiehua Zhang , Li Liu , Yongxiang Liu

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have emerged as a powerful mesh-free framework for solving ordinary and partial differential equations by embedding the governing physical laws directly into the loss function. However, their…

The growing need for accurate and efficient 3D identification of tumors, particularly in liver segmentation, has spurred considerable research into deep learning models. While many existing architectures offer strong performance, they often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Bhavesh Gyanchandani , Aditya Oza , Abhinav Roy

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

Segmentation of crop fields is essential for enhancing agricultural productivity, monitoring crop health, and promoting sustainable practices. Deep learning models adopted for this task must ensure accurate and reliable predictions to avoid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Daniele Rege Cambrin , Eleonora Poeta , Eliana Pastor , Tania Cerquitelli , Elena Baralis , Paolo Garza

In this paper, we show that an equivalent implementation of KAN can be done on quantum computers by simply combining quantum signal processing circuits in layers. This provides a powerful and robust path for the applications of KAN on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Ammar Daskin

Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) have become one of the fundamental architectural component in point cloud analysis due to its effective feature learning mechanism. However, when processing complex geometric structures in point clouds, MLPs'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yan Shi , Qingdong He , Yijun Liu , Xiaoyu Liu , Jingyong Su

This paper explores uncertainty quantification (UQ) methods in the context of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs). We apply an ensemble approach to KANs to obtain a heuristic measure of UQ, enhancing interpretability and robustness in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Amirhossein Mollaali , Christian Bolivar Moya , Amanda A. Howard , Alexander Heinlein , Panos Stinis , Guang Lin

Multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) are a workhorse machine learning architecture, used in a variety of modern deep learning frameworks. However, recently Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have become increasingly popular due to their success on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Jonas A. Actor , Graham Harper , Ben Southworth , Eric C. Cyr

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have significantly advanced image classification by applying self-attention on patch embeddings. However, the standard MLP blocks in each Transformer layer may not capture complex nonlinear dependencies optimally.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Shreyas S , Akshath M

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have emerged as a promising alternative to Multi-layer Perceptrons (MLPs) due to their superior function-fitting abilities in data-driven modeling. In this paper, we propose a novel framework, DAE-KAN, for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Kai Luo , Juan Tang , Mingchao Cai , Xiaoqing Zeng , Manqi Xie , Ming Yan

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

This paper presents, for the first time, a framework for Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) in power system applications. Inspired by the recently proposed KAN architecture, this paper proposes physics-informed Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Hang Shuai , Fangxing Li

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

This study explores the application of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) in predicting nuclear binding energies, leveraging their ability to decompose complex multi-parameter systems into simpler univariate functions. By utilizing data from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-10 Hao Liu , Jin Lei , Zhongzhou Ren

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