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High-dimensional linear mappings, or linear layers, dominate both the parameter count and the computational cost of most modern deep-learning models. We introduce a general-purpose drop-in replacement, lookup multivariate Kolmogorov-Arnold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Sergey Pozdnyakov , Philippe Schwaller

The Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) has been gaining popularity as an alternative to the multilayer perceptron (MLP) due to its greater expressiveness and interpretability. Even so, KAN suffers from training instability and being orders of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Matthew Raffel , Lizhong Chen

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

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

Collaborative filtering (CF) remains essential in recommender systems, leveraging user--item interactions to provide personalized recommendations. Meanwhile, a number of CF techniques have evolved into sophisticated model architectures…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Jin-Duk Park , Kyung-Min Kim , Won-Yong Shin

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) have recently shown promise for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). Yet their original formulation is computationally and memory intensive, motivating the introduction of Chebyshev Type-I-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Hangwei Zhang , Zhimu Huang , Yan Wang

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) plays a critical role in numerous applications, including healthcare monitoring, fitness tracking, and smart environments. Traditional deep learning (DL) approaches, while effective, often require extensive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Mohammad Alikhani

Deeply stacked KANs are practically impossible due to high training difficulties and substantial memory requirements. Consequently, existing studies can only incorporate few KAN layers, hindering the comprehensive exploration of KANs. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Xingyu Qiu , Xinghua Ma , Dong Liang , Gongning Luo , Wei Wang , Kuanquan Wang , Shuo Li

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

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have garnered significant attention for their promise of improved parameter efficiency and explainability compared to traditional Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). KANs' key innovation lies in the use of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Sohaib Errabii , Olivier Sentieys , Marcello Traiola

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

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have recently gained attention as an alternative to traditional Multilayer Perceptrons (MLPs) in deep learning frameworks. KANs have been integrated into various deep learning architectures such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Ali Kashefi

Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs) are becoming a critical component of modern communication infrastructures, especially with the advent of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite systems. Traditional centralized learning approaches face major…

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Medical image enhancement and segmentation are critical yet challenging tasks in modern clinical practice, constrained by artifacts and complex anatomical variations. Traditional deep learning approaches often rely on complex architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Maksim Penkin , Andrey Krylov

Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) as an alternative to multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) are a recent development demonstrating strong potential for data-driven modeling. This work applies KANs as the backbone of a neural ordinary differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Benjamin C. Koenig , Suyong Kim , Sili Deng

The emergence of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) has sparked significant interest and debate within the scientific community. This paper explores the application of KANs in the domain of computer vision (CV). We examine the convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ivan Drokin

Neural network (NN)-based transistor compact modeling has recently emerged as a transformative solution for accelerating device modeling and SPICE circuit simulations. However, conventional NN architectures, despite their widespread…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Rodion Novkin , Hussam Amrouch

Learned activation functions in models like Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) outperform fixed-activation architectures in terms of accuracy and interpretability; however, their computational complexity poses critical challenges for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Mengyuan Yin , Benjamin Chen Ming Choong , Chuping Qu , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Weng-Fai Wong , Tao Luo

Scientific discovery and dynamic characterization of the physical system play a critical role in understanding, learning, and modeling the physical phenomena and behaviors in various fields. Although theories and laws of many system…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-29 Xiaotian Jiang , Min Zhang , Xiao Luo , Zelai Yu , Yiming Meng , Danshi Wang