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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-…

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In this paper, we introduce Wav-KAN, an innovative neural network architecture that leverages the Wavelet Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (Wav-KAN) framework to enhance interpretability and performance. Traditional multilayer perceptrons (MLPs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zavareh Bozorgasl , Hao Chen

The application of machine learning methodologies for predicting properties within materials science has garnered significant attention. Among recent advancements, Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have emerged as a promising alternative to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Rui Wang , Hongyu Yu , Yang Zhong , Hongjun Xiang

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…

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Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have emerged as a robust framework for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) by approximating their solutions via neural networks and imposing physics-based constraints on the loss function.…

Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), as a simple yet powerful model, continues to be widely used in classification and regression tasks. However, traditional MLPs often struggle to efficiently capture nonlinear relationships in load data when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yizhou Ma , Zhuoqin Yang , Luis-Daniel Ibáñez

Due to the very rapidly growing use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in real-world applications related to machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI), several hardware accelerator de-signs for ANNs have been proposed recently. In…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Supreeth Mysore Shivanandamurthy , Ishan. G. Thakkar , Sayed Ahmad Salehi

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

Attention mechanisms have become a key module in modern vision backbones due to their ability to model long-range dependencies. However, their quadratic complexity in sequence length and the difficulty of interpreting attention weights…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhuoqin Yang , Jiansong Zhang , Xiaoling Luo , Xu Wu , Zheng Lu , Linlin Shen

The Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) is a novel multi-layer network model recognized for its efficiency in neuromorphic computing, where synapses between neurons are trained linearly. Computations in KAN are performed by generating a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Hikaru Wakaura , Rahmat Mulyawan , Andriyan B. Suksmono

Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) have become one of the fundamental architectural component in point cloud analysis due to its effective feature learning mechanism. However, when processing complex geometric structures in point clouds, MLPs'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yan Shi , Qingdong He , Yijun Liu , Xiaoyu Liu , Jingyong Su

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

This paper presents, for the first time, a framework for Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) in power system applications. Inspired by the recently proposed KAN architecture, this paper proposes physics-informed Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Hang Shuai , Fangxing Li

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) is increasingly deployed in resource-constrained environments, yet the go-to function approximators - multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) - are often parameter-inefficient due to an imperfect inductive bias for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Rajib Mostakim , Reza T. Batley , Sourav Saha

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

As inference on Large Language Models (LLMs) emerges as an important workload in machine learning applications, weight quantization has become a standard technique for efficient GPU deployment. Quantization not only reduces model size, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Elias Frantar , Roberto L. Castro , Jiale Chen , Torsten Hoefler , Dan Alistarh

The need for scalable and expressive models in machine learning is paramount, particularly in applications requiring both structural depth and flexibility. Traditional deep learning methods, such as multilayer perceptrons (MLP), offer depth…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Shrenik Zinage , Sudeepta Mondal , Soumalya Sarkar

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

Limited by the complexity of basis function (B-spline) calculations, Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) suffer from restricted parallel computing capability on GPUs. This paper proposes a novel ReLU-KAN implementation that inherits the core…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Qi Qiu , Tao Zhu , Helin Gong , Liming Chen , Huansheng Ning

Lightweight neural network accelerators are essential for edge devices with limited resources and power constraints. While quantization and binarization can efficiently reduce hardware cost, they still rely on the conventional Artificial…

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