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While most modern machine learning methods offer speed and accuracy, few promise interpretability or explainability -- two key features necessary for highly sensitive industries, like medicine, finance, and engineering. Using eight datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Nataly R. Panczyk , Omer F. Erdem , Majdi I. Radaideh

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

Recent Transformer- and MLP-based models have demonstrated strong performance in long-term time series forecasting, yet Transformers remain limited by their quadratic complexity and permutation-equivariant attention, while MLPs exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Md Zahidul Hasan , A. Ben Hamza , Nizar Bouguila

Inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold superposition theorem, Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have recently emerged as an improved backbone for most deep learning frameworks, promising more adaptivity than their multilayer perceptron (MLP)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Anastasis Kratsios , Bum Jun Kim , Takashi Furuya

For many real-world applications, understanding feature-outcome relationships is as crucial as achieving high predictive accuracy. While traditional neural networks excel at prediction, their black-box nature obscures underlying functional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Wangxuan Fan , Ching Wang , Siqi Li , Nan Liu

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

Due to their effective performance, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Vision Transformer (ViT) architectures have become the standard for solving computer vision tasks. Such architectures require large data sets and rely on convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Jorge Luiz dos Santos Canuto , Linnyer Beatrys Ruiz Aylon , Rodrigo Clemente Thom de Souza

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

Kolmogorov Arnold Networks (KANs) are neural architectures inspired by the Kolmogorov Arnold representation theorem that leverage B Spline parameterizations for flexible, locally adaptive function approximation. Although KANs can capture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Wenhao Liang , Wei Emma Zhang , Lin Yue , Miao Xu , Olaf Maennel , Weitong Chen

To address the issue of interpretability in multilayer perceptrons (MLPs), Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) are introduced in 2024. However, optimizing KAN structures is labor-intensive, typically requiring manual intervention and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Quan Long , Bin Wang , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have emerged as a promising method for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) in scientific computing. While PINNs typically use multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) as their underlying architecture,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Bruno Jacob , Amanda A. Howard , Panos Stinis

Multi-scale PDE problems present significant challenges in scientific computing. While conventional MLP-based deep learning methods exhibit spectral bias in resolving multi-scale features, the physics-informed Kolmogorov-Arnold network…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Yu-Sen Yang , Ling Guo , Xiaodan Ren

Score prediction is crucial in evaluating realistic image sharpness based on collected informative features. Recently, Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) have been developed and witnessed remarkable success in data fitting. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Shaode Yu , Ze Chen , Zhimu Yang , Jiacheng Gu , Bizu Feng

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have seen great success in scientific domains thanks to spline activation functions, becoming an alternative to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs). However, spline functions may not respect symmetry in tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Lexiang Hu , Yisen Wang , Zhouchen Lin

The highly nonlinear degradation process, complex physical interactions, and various sources of uncertainty render single-image Super-resolution (SR) a particularly challenging task. Existing interpretable SR approaches, whether based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Chenyu Li , Danfeng Hong , Bing Zhang , Zhaojie Pan , Jocelyn Chanussot

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

Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) has attracted growing interest for its strong function approximation capability. In our previous work, KAN and its variants were explored in score regression for blind image quality assessment (BIQA).…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Ze Chen , Shaode Yu

Efforts to improve Kolmogorov--Arnold networks (KANs) with architectural enhancements have been stymied by the complexity those enhancements bring, undermining the interpretability that makes KANs attractive in the first place. Here we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 James Bagrow , Josh Bongard

The domain of laser fusion presents a unique and challenging predictive modeling application landscape for machine learning methods due to high problem complexity and limited training data. Data-driven approaches utilizing prescribed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Rahman Ejaz , Varchas Gopalaswamy , Riccardo Betti , Aarne Lees , Christopher Kanan

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have emerged as a promising alternative to traditional Multilayer Perceptrons (MLPs) in deep learning. KANs have already been integrated into various architectures, such as convolutional neural networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ali Kashefi