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Existing point cloud feature learning networks often incorporate sequences of sampling, neighborhood grouping, neighborhood-wise feature learning, and feature aggregation to learn high-semantic point features that represent the global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Kevin Tirta Wijaya , Dong-Hee Paek , Seung-Hyun Kong

Point cloud is an important data structure for a wide range of applications, including robotics, AR/VR, and autonomous driving. To process the point cloud, many deep-learning-based point cloud recognition algorithms have been proposed.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Qijun Zhang , Zhiyao Xie

This paper presents the application of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) in classifying metal surface defects. Specifically, steel surfaces are analyzed to detect defects such as cracks, inclusions, patches, pitted surfaces, and scratches.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Maciej Krzywda , Mariusz Wermiński , Szymon Łukasik , Amir H. Gandomi

Understanding point cloud has recently gained huge interests following the development of 3D scanning devices and the accumulation of large-scale 3D data. Most point cloud processing algorithms can be classified as either point-based or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Pyunghwan Ahn , Juyoung Yang , Eojindl Yi , Chanho Lee , Junmo Kim

Federated Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (F-KANs) have already been proposed, but their assessment is at an initial stage. We present a comparison between KANs (using B-splines and Radial Basis Functions as activation functions) and Multi-…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Arthur Mendonça Sasse , Claudio Miceli de Farias

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) 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

Perceiving the environment via cameras is crucial for Reinforcement Learning (RL) in robotics. While images are a convenient form of representation, they often complicate extracting important geometric details, especially with varying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Balázs Gyenes , Nikolai Franke , Philipp Becker , Gerhard Neumann

DreamerV3 is a state-of-the-art online model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) algorithm known for remarkable sample efficiency. Concurrently, Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have emerged as a promising alternative to Multi-Layer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Chenwei Shi , Xueyu Luan

Massive number of applications involve data with underlying relationships embedded in non-Euclidean space. Graph neural networks (GNNs) are utilized to extract features by capturing the dependencies within graphs. Despite groundbreaking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Fan Zhang , Xin Zhang

The Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been the dominant and effective approach for general computer vision tasks. Recently, Kolmogorov-Arnold neural networks (KANs), based on the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem, have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zhaoxiang Liu , Zhicheng Ma , Kaikai Zhao , Kai Wang , Shiguo Lian

The performance of 3D object detection models over point clouds highly depends on their capability of modeling local geometric patterns. Conventional point-based models exploit local patterns through a symmetric function (e.g. max pooling)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Jianan Li , Jiashi Feng

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…

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

In this paper, we compare the performance of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) and Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) networks on irregular or noisy functions. We control the number of parameters and the size of the training samples to ensure a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Chen Zeng , Jiahui Wang , Haoran Shen , Qiao Wang

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

PointNet has revolutionized how we think about representing point clouds. For classification and segmentation tasks, the approach and its subsequent extensions are state-of-the-art. To date, the successful application of PointNet to point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Yasuhiro Aoki , Hunter Goforth , Rangaprasad Arun Srivatsan , Simon Lucey

We introduce Jacobi-KAN-DGCNN, a framework that integrates Dynamic Graph Convolutional Neural Network (DGCNN) with Jacobi Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) for the classification of three-dimensional point clouds. This method replaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hanaa El Afia , Said Ohamouddou , Raddouane Chiheb , Abdellatif El Afia

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) have shown excellent capability in complex hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. However, these models require a significant number of training data and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Ali Jamali , Swalpa Kumar Roy , Danfeng Hong , Bing Lu , Pedram Ghamisi

Ultrafast online learning is essential for high-frequency systems, such as controls for quantum computing and nuclear fusion, where adaptation must occur on sub-microsecond timescales. Meeting these requirements demands low-latency,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Duc Hoang , Aarush Gupta , Philip Harris