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