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Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks have recently been introduced as a flexible alternative to multi-layer Perceptron architectures. In this paper, we examine the training dynamics of different KAN architectures and compare them with corresponding…
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Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have brought breakthroughs in processing clinical electrocardiograms (ECGs), speaker-independent speech and complex images. However, typical CNNs require a fixed input size while it is common to…
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Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs), a novel type of neural network, have recently gained popularity and attention due to the ability to substitute multi-layer perceptions (MLPs) in artificial intelligence (AI) with higher accuracy and…
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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and the locally connected layer are limited in capturing the importance and relations of different local receptive fields, which are often crucial for tasks such as face verification, visual question…