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In this paper, we introduce FC-KAN, a Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) that leverages combinations of popular mathematical functions such as B-splines, wavelets, and radial basis functions on low-dimensional data through element-wise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Hoang-Thang Ta , Duy-Quy Thai , Abu Bakar Siddiqur Rahman , Grigori Sidorov , Alexander Gelbukh

In traditional neural network architectures, a multilayer perceptron (MLP) is typically employed as a classification block following the feature extraction stage. However, the Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) presents a promising alternative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Valeriy Lobanov , Nikita Firsov , Evgeny Myasnikov , Roman Khabibullin , Artem Nikonorov

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 demonstrated an exceptional ability to learn complex functions on clean, low-dimensional data but struggle to maintain performance on noisy and imperfect real-world datasets. In contrast, conventional…

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) is an emerging neural network architecture in machine learning. It has greatly interested the research community about whether KAN can be a promising alternative of the commonly used Multi-Layer Perceptions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Haihong Guo , Fengxin Li , Jiao Li , Hongyan Liu

The Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) is a new network architecture known for its high accuracy in several tasks such as function fitting and PDE solving. The superior expressive capability of KAN arises from the Kolmogorov-Arnold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Ruichen Qiu , Yibo Miao , Shiwen Wang , Lijia Yu , Yifan Zhu , Xiao-Shan Gao

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

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

Transformers stand as the cornerstone of mordern deep learning. Traditionally, these models rely on multi-layer perceptron (MLP) layers to mix the information between channels. In this paper, we introduce the Kolmogorov-Arnold Transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Xingyi Yang , Xinchao Wang

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have shown potential as an alternative to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) in neural networks, providing universal function approximation with fewer parameters and reduced memory usage. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Victor Augusto Kich , Jair Augusto Bottega , Raul Steinmetz , Ricardo Bedin Grando , Ayano Yorozu , Akihisa Ohya

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) are a recently introduced neural architecture that replace fixed nonlinearities with trainable activation functions, offering enhanced flexibility and interpretability. While KANs have been applied…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Spyros Rigas , Dhruv Verma , Georgios Alexandridis , Yixuan Wang

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

Recently, a novel model named Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) has been proposed with the potential to achieve the functionality of traditional deep neural networks (DNNs) using orders of magnitude fewer parameters by parameterized B-spline…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Wei-Hsing Huang , Jianwei Jia , Yuyao Kong , Faaiq Waqar , Tai-Hao Wen , Meng-Fan Chang , Shimeng Yu

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

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

Recent developments have introduced Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN), an innovative architectural paradigm capable of replicating conventional deep neural network (DNN) capabilities while utilizing significantly reduced parameter counts…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Wei-Hsing Huang , Jianwei Jia , Yuyao Kong , Faaiq Waqar , Tai-Hao Wen , Meng-Fan Chang , Shimeng Yu

Recent advancements in neural network design have given rise to the development of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs), which enhance speed, interpretability, and precision. This paper presents the Fractional Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (fKAN),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Alireza Afzal Aghaei

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

Recently, Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have been proposed as an alternative to multilayer perceptrons, suggesting advantages in performance and interpretability. We study a typical binary event classification task in high-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-27 Johannes Erdmann , Florian Mausolf , Jan Lukas Späh

Functional connectivity (FC) analysis, a valuable tool for computer-aided brain disorder diagnosis, traditionally relies on atlas-based parcellation. However, issues relating to selection bias and a lack of regard for subject specificity…

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