This study presents an empirical benchmarking comparison between Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) and Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) on structured tabular classification tasks. Motivated by the growing interest in KANs as an alternative function-approximating architecture, we evaluate their out-of-the-box performance on twelve publicly available datasets spanning binary, multiclass, multilabel, and ordinal problems.
arXiv:2606. 17927v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to traditional multilayer perceptrons by replacing linear weights with learnable univariate functions.
By Julian Hoever, Gregor Schiele
arXiv:2606. 17927v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to traditional multilayer perceptrons by replacing linear weights with learnable univariate functions.
By Julian Hoever, Gregor Schiele
arXiv:2512. 09084v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem offers a theoretical alternative to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) by placing learnable univariate functions on edges rather than nodes.
By Oscar Eliasson
arXiv:2607. 15525v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Kolmogorov--Arnold Networks (KANs) replace fixed node activations with learned one-dimensional edge functions, offering an explicit interface for interpretation and a possible alternative to transformer feed-forward networks.
By Felippe Alves, Renato Vicente
arXiv:2512. 12850v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Low-latency, resource-efficient neural network inference on FPGAs is essential for applications demanding real-time capability and low power.
By Duc Hoang, Aarush Gupta, Philip Harris
arXiv:2606. 27126v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Kolmogorov Arnold networks (KAN) have recently been introduced as a (deep) neural network architecture whose trainable parameters adapt the activation functions, instead of the coefficients of the affine transformations at the core of traditional architectures such as deep multilayer perceptrons (MLPs).
By Miguel Jaraiz, Fermin Gutierrez, Pablo Yeste, Miguel S\'anchez-Dom\'inguez, Eusebio Valero, Gonzalo Rubio, Lucas Lacasa
arXiv:2604. 05635v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Numerical preprocessing remains a critical component of tabular deep learning, as the representation of continuous features can strongly affect downstream performance.
By Manish Kumar, Anton Frederik Thielmann, Christoph Weisser, Benjamin S\"afken
Kolmogorov Arnold networks (KAN) have recently been introduced as a (deep) neural network architecture whose trainable parameters adapt the activation functions, instead of the coefficients of the affine transformations at the core of traditional architectures such as deep multilayer perceptrons (MLPs). This architecture builds on the Kolmogorov-Arnold theorem, which endows it with universal approximation properties.
arXiv:2606. 15314v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial retrofit planning depends on structured operational data rather than free text: planners must estimate whether a newly registered prototype will require a retrofit, which retrofit package it will need, and how long the work will take.
By Aina Vila Pons, Ioannis Tzachristas, Constantinos Antoniou
arXiv:2608. 00737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hard-constrained recurrent physics-informed networks (HRPINNs) embed known dynamics inside a recurrent numerical integrator and restrict a neural branch to learning only the residual dynamics that the first-principles model does not capture.
By Enzo Nicolas Spotorno, Josafat Leal Filho
arXiv:2605. 19031v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have demonstrated an exceptional ability to learn complex functions on clean, low-dimensional data but struggle to maintain performance on noisy and imperfect real-world datasets.
By Mengxi Liu, Sizhen Bian, Vitor Fortes, Francisco Calatrava Nicolas, Daniel Gei{\ss}ler, Maximilian Kiefer-Emmanouilidis, Bo Zhou, Paul Lukowicz