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To address the trade-off between computational efficiency and adherence to Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) principles, we propose TruKAN, a new architecture based on the KAN structure and learnable activation functions. TruKAN replaces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ali Bayeh , Samira Sadaoui , Malek Mouhoub

The landscape of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) is rapidly expanding, yet lacks a unified theoretical framework and a clear principle for efficient architecture design. This paper addresses these gaps with three core contributions.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Zhijie Chen , Xinglin Zhang , Hongshu Guo , Yue-Jiao Gong

Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) represent data features by learning the activation functions and demonstrate superior accuracy with fewer parameters, FLOPs, GPU memory usage (Memory), shorter training time (TraT), and testing time (TesT)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Yanheng Wang , Xiaohan Yu , Yongsheng Gao , Jianjun Sha , Jian Wang , Shiyong Yan , Kai Qin , Yonggang Zhang , Lianru Gao

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have emerged as a promising method for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) in scientific computing. While PINNs typically use multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) as their underlying architecture,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Bruno Jacob , Amanda A. Howard , Panos Stinis

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 a promising framework for approximating complex nonlinear functions, yet the original B-spline formulation suffers from significant computational overhead due to De Boor algorithm. While recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Shao-Ting Chiu , Siu Wun Cheung , Ulisses Braga-Neto , Chak Shing Lee , Rui Peng Li

Kolmogorov Arnold Networks (KANs) represent a new class of neural architectures that replace conventional linear transformations and node-based nonlinearities with spline-based function approximations distributed along network edges.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Kazi Ahmed Asif Fuad , Lizhong Chen

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

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

Inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem, we propose Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) as promising alternatives to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs). While MLPs have fixed activation functions on nodes ("neurons"), KANs have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Ziming Liu , Yixuan Wang , Sachin Vaidya , Fabian Ruehle , James Halverson , Marin Soljačić , Thomas Y. Hou , Max Tegmark

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) have recently emerged as a flexible and parameter-efficient alternative to conventional neural networks. Unlike standard architectures that use fixed node-based activations, KANs place learnable functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Enrique Luna Villagómez , Vladimir Mahalec

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

Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) have attracted attention recently as an alternative to multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) for scientific machine learning. However, KANs can be expensive to train, even for relatively small networks. Inspired by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Amanda A. Howard , Bruno Jacob , Sarah Helfert , Alexander Heinlein , Panos Stinis

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

Although Kolmogorov-Arnold-based interpretable networks (KANs) possess strong theoretical expressiveness, they suffer from severe parameter explosion and limited ability to capture high-frequency features in high-dimensional tasks. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jusheng Zhang , Yijia Fan , Kaitong Cai , Keze Wang , Wenhao Wang

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

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

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

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