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The Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem offers a theoretical alternative to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) by placing learnable univariate functions on edges rather than nodes. While recent implementations such as Kolmogorov-Arnold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Oscar Eliasson

Inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem and Kurkova's principle of using approximate representations, we propose the Kurkova-Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KKAN), a new two-block architecture that combines robust multi-layer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Juan Diego Toscano , Li-Lian Wang , George Em Karniadakis

For years, many neural networks have been developed based on the Kolmogorov-Arnold Representation Theorem (KART), which was created to address Hilbert's 13th problem. Recently, relying on KART, Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Hoang-Thang Ta , Duy-Quy Thai , Phuong-Linh Tran-Thi

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

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) shift neural computation from linear layers to learnable nonlinear edge functions, but implementing these nonlinearities efficiently in hardware remains an open challenge. Here we introduce a physical…

In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the de facto tool for learning node and graph representations. Most GNNs typically consist of a sequence of neighborhood aggregation (a.k.a., message-passing) layers, within which…

Function approximation is a critical task in various fields. However, existing neural network approaches struggle with locally complex or discontinuous functions due to their reliance on a single global model covering the entire problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Hiroki Shiraishi , Hisao Ishibuchi , Masaya Nakata

In this paper, we present an innovative federated learning (FL) approach that utilizes Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) for classification tasks. By utilizing the adaptive activation capabilities of KANs in a federated framework, we aim to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Engin Zeydan , Cristian J. Vaca-Rubio , Luis Blanco , Roberto Pereira , Marius Caus , Abdullah Aydeger

Continual learning requires models to train continuously across consecutive tasks without forgetting. Most existing methods utilize linear classifiers, which struggle to maintain a stable classification space while learning new tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yusong Hu , Zichen Liang , Fei Yang , Qibin Hou , Xialei Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have gained attention for their potential to outperform Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) in terms of parameter efficiency and interpretability. Unlike traditional MLPs, KANs use learnable non-linear…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Sohaib Errabii , Olivier Sentieys , Marcello Traiola

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

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) offer an efficient and interpretable alternative to traditional multi-layer perceptron (MLP) architectures due to their finite network topology. However, according to the results of Kolmogorov and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Moein E. Samadi , Younes Müller , Andreas Schuppert

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) represent an innovation in neural network architectures, offering a compelling alternative to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) in models such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Recurrent Neural Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Hoang-Thang Ta , Duy-Quy Thai , Anh Tran , Grigori Sidorov , Alexander Gelbukh

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

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of 18 distinct polynomials and their potential applications in Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) models as an alternative to traditional spline-based methods. The polynomials are classified into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Seyd Teymoor Seydi

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

Despite their immense success, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be difficult to optimize and costly to train due to hundreds of layers within the network depth. Conventional convolutional operations are fundamentally limited by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Ray Congrui Yu , Sherry Wu , Jiang Gui

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) offer a theoretically grounded alternative to multi-layer perceptrons by representing multivariate functions as compositions of univariate basis functions. However, a critical limitation of KANs is the need…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Francesco Alesiani , Henrik Christiansen , Federico Errica

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) introduce a paradigm of neural modeling that implements learnable functions on the edges of the networks, diverging from the traditional node-centric activations in neural networks. This work assesses the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Basim Azam , Naveed Akhtar

We introduce Graph Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (GKAN), an innovative neural network architecture that extends the principles of the recently proposed Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) to graph-structured data. By adopting the unique…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Mehrdad Kiamari , Mohammad Kiamari , Bhaskar Krishnamachari