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The Kolmogorov-Arnold network (KAN) is a regression model that is based on a representation of an arbitrary continuous multivariate function by a composition of functions of a single variable. Experimentally-obtained datasets for regression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Andrew Polar , Michael Poluektov

Characterizing crystalline energy landscapes is essential to predicting thermodynamic stability, electronic structure, and functional behavior. While machine learning (ML) enables rapid property predictions, the "black-box" nature of most…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-07 Gen Zu , Ning Mao , Claudia Felser , Yang Zhang

Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) is a network structure recently proposed by Liu et al. (2024) that offers improved interpretability and a more parsimonious design in many science-oriented tasks compared to multi-layer perceptrons. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Xianyang Zhang , Huijuan Zhou

This study explores the application of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) in predicting nuclear binding energies, leveraging their ability to decompose complex multi-parameter systems into simpler univariate functions. By utilizing data from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-10 Hao Liu , Jin Lei , Zhongzhou Ren

Algorithmic speedup of training common neural architectures is made difficult by the lack of structure guaranteed by the function compositions inherent to such networks. In contrast to multilayer perceptrons (MLPs), Kolmogorov-Arnold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Ben S. Southworth , Jonas A. Actor , Graham Harper , Eric C. Cyr

Traditional constitutive models rely on hand-crafted parametric forms with limited expressivity and generalizability, while neural network-based models can capture complex material behavior but often lack interpretability. To balance these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Prakash Thakolkaran , Yaqi Guo , Shivam Saini , Mathias Peirlinck , Benjamin Alheit , Siddhant Kumar

Kolmogorov Arnold Networks (KANs) are recent architectural advancement in neural computation that offer a mathematically grounded alternative to standard neural networks. This study presents an empirical evaluation of KANs in context of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Pankaj Yadav , Vivek Vijay

Recent advancements in neural network design have given rise to the development of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs), which enhance speed, interpretability, and precision. This paper presents the Fractional Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (fKAN),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Alireza Afzal Aghaei

Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) as an alternative to multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) are a recent development demonstrating strong potential for data-driven modeling. This work applies KANs as the backbone of a neural ordinary differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Benjamin C. Koenig , Suyong Kim , Sili Deng

The Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) is a new network architecture known for its high accuracy in several tasks such as function fitting and PDE solving. The superior expressive capability of KAN arises from the Kolmogorov-Arnold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Ruichen Qiu , Yibo Miao , Shiwen Wang , Lijia Yu , Yifan Zhu , Xiao-Shan Gao

The emergence of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) has sparked significant interest and debate within the scientific community. This paper explores the application of KANs in the domain of computer vision (CV). We examine the convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ivan Drokin

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

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) are a class of neural networks that have received increased attention in recent literature. In contrast to MLPs, KANs leverage parameterized, trainable activation functions and offer several benefits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Jamison Moody , James Usevitch

Neural network (NN)-based transistor compact modeling has recently emerged as a transformative solution for accelerating device modeling and SPICE circuit simulations. However, conventional NN architectures, despite their widespread…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Rodion Novkin , Hussam Amrouch

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have been recently proposed as a machine learning framework that is more interpretable and controllable than the multi-layer perceptron. Various network architectures have been proposed within the KAN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Tatiana Boura , Stasinos Konstantopoulos

The research undertakes a comprehensive comparative analysis of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) and Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP), highlighting their effectiveness in solving essential computational challenges like nonlinear function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Aradhya Gaonkar , Nihal Jain , Vignesh Chougule , Nikhil Deshpande , Sneha Varur , Channabasappa Muttal

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

In this work we propose CVKAN, a complex-valued Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN), to join the intrinsic interpretability of KANs and the advantages of Complex-Valued Neural Networks (CVNNs). We show how to transfer a KAN and the necessary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Matthias Wolff , Florian Eilers , Xiaoyi Jiang

We present a novel approach for verifying properties of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs), a class of neural networks characterized by nonlinear, univariate activation functions typically implemented as piecewise polynomial splines or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Noah Schwartz , Chandra Kanth Nagesh , Sriram Sankaranarayanan , Ramneet Kaur , Tuhin Sahai , Susmit Jha

Nuclear mass prediction is one of the core issues in nuclear physics research, yet it faces the challenge of small-sample datasets with high complexity. This study introduces the Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) into the refinement of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-17 Yanhua Lu , Tianshuai Shang , Pengxiang Du , Jian Li , Haozhao Liang