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We propose DropKAN (Dropout Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks) a regularization method that prevents co-adaptation of activation function weights in Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs). DropKAN functions by embedding the drop mask directly within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Mohammed Ghaith Altarabichi

Kolmogorov--Arnold Networks (KAN) replace scalar weights by learnable univariate functions, often implemented with B-splines. This design can be accurate and interpretable, but it makes inference expensive on CPU because each layer requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Oleksandr Kuznetsov

Accurate time series forecasting in scientific domains such as climate modeling, physiological monitoring, and energy systems benefits from both competitive predictions and model transparency. This work proposes DecompKAN, a lightweight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Naveen Mysore

Algorithmic level developments like Convolutional Neural Networks, transformers, attention mechanism, Retrieval Augmented Generation and so on have changed Artificial Intelligence. Recent such development was observed by Kolmogorov-Arnold…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ashim Dahal , Saydul Akbar Murad , Nick Rahimi

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) relocate learnable nonlinearities from nodes to edges, demonstrating remarkable capabilities in scientific machine learning and interpretable modeling. However, current KAN implementations suffer from…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Alastair Poole , Stig McArthur , Saravan Kumar

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) has recently attracted significant attention as a promising alternative to traditional Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP). Despite their theoretical appeal, KAN require validation on large-scale benchmark…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Chang Dong , Liangwei Zheng , Weitong Chen

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

Efforts to improve Kolmogorov--Arnold networks (KANs) with architectural enhancements have been stymied by the complexity those enhancements bring, undermining the interpretability that makes KANs attractive in the first place. Here we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 James Bagrow , Josh Bongard

The Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) has emerged as a promising neural network architecture for small-scale AI+Science applications. However, it suffers from inflexibility in modeling ridge functions, which is widely used in representing the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Zhiteng Zhou , Zhaoyue Xu , Yi Liu , Shizhao Wang

This short paper is a fast proof-of-concept that the 3-order B-splines used in Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) can be well approximated by Gaussian radial basis functions. Doing so leads to FastKAN, a much faster implementation of KAN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Ziyao Li

U-Net has become a cornerstone in various visual applications such as image segmentation and diffusion probability models. While numerous innovative designs and improvements have been introduced by incorporating transformers or MLPs, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Chenxin Li , Xinyu Liu , Wuyang Li , Cheng Wang , Hengyu Liu , Yifan Liu , Zhen Chen , Yixuan Yuan

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

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks(KANs), as a theoretically efficient neural network architecture, have garnered attention for their potential in capturing complex patterns. However, their application in computer vision remains relatively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Yueyang Cang , Yu hang liu , Li Shi

Score prediction is crucial in evaluating realistic image sharpness based on collected informative features. Recently, Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) have been developed and witnessed remarkable success in data fitting. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Shaode Yu , Ze Chen , Zhimu Yang , Jiacheng Gu , Bizu Feng

We introduce quantum Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (QKAN), a quantum algorithmic framework inspired by the recently proposed Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN). QKAN inherits the compositional structure of KAN and is based on block-encodings,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Petr Ivashkov , Po-Wei Huang , Kelvin Koor , Lirandë Pira , Patrick Rebentrost

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have emerged as a promising alternative to traditional Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs), offering enhanced interpretability and a solid mathematical foundation. However, their parameter efficiency remains a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Di Zhang

In this work, we explore the use of a novel neural network architecture, the Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) as feature extractors for sensor-based (specifically IMU) Human Activity Recognition (HAR). Where conventional networks perform a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Mengxi Liu , Daniel Geißler , Dominique Nshimyimana , Sizhen Bian , Bo Zhou , Paul Lukowicz

Inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem, KANs offer a novel framework for function approximation by replacing traditional neural network weights with learnable univariate functions. This design demonstrates significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zhangchi Zhao , Jun Shu , Deyu Meng , Zongben Xu

Pansharpening aims to fuse high-resolution spatial details from panchromatic images with the rich spectral information of multispectral images. Existing deep neural networks for this task typically rely on static activation functions, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Haoyu Zhang , Haojing Chen , Zhen Zhong , Liangjian Deng

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