Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks: the latest advance in Neural Networks, simply explained

The new type of network that is making waves in the ML world.

Theo Wolf
Towards Data Science
9 min readMay 12, 2024

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Comparison of the MLP and the KAN. Image from paper.

In April, a paper appeared on arXiv named: KAN: Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks. The tweet announcing got ~5k likes, which for a paper announcement is pretty viral. The accompanying GitHub repository already has 7.6k stars and…

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