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ARXIV:2603.08583 · NOVEL ARCHITECTURES · SUBMITTED 02 APR · 02:30 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.08583NOVEL ARCHITECTURESSUBMITTED 02 APR · 02:30 UTCFRESHNESS STALEarXiv
DualFlexKAN offers a more efficient and flexible alternative to MLPs and KANs by decoupling input transformations and output activations, enabling hybrid networks with improved accuracy and reduced parameter count.
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DualFlexKAN offers a more efficient and flexible alternative to MLPs and KANs by decoupling input transformations and output activations, enabling hybrid networks with improved accuracy and reduced parameter count. Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) address this…
Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) rely on pre-defined, fixed activation functions, imposing a static inductive bias that forces the network to approximate complex topologies solely through increased depth and width. Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) address this limitation…
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.08583DualFlexKAN offers a more efficient and flexible alternative to MLPs and KANs by decoupling input transformations and output activations, enabling hybrid networks with improved accuracy and reduced parameter count.
Abstract
Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) rely on pre-defined, fixed activation functions, imposing a static inductive bias that forces the network to approximate complex topologies solely through increased depth and width. Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) address this limitation through edge-centric learnable functions, yet their formulation suffers from quadratic parameter scaling and architectural rigidity that hinders the effective integration of standard regularization techniques. This paper introduces the DualFlexKAN (DFKAN), a flexible architecture featuring a dual-stage mechanism that independently controls pre-linear input transformations and post-linear output activations. This decoupling enables hybrid networks that optimize the trade-off between expressiveness and computational cost. Unlike standard formulations, DFKAN supports diverse basis function families, including orthogonal polynomials, B-splines, and radial basis functions, integrated with configurable regularization strategies that stabilize training dynamics. Comprehensive evaluations across regression benchmarks, physics-informed tasks, and function approximation demonstrate that DFKAN outperforms both MLPs and conventional KANs in accuracy, convergence speed, and gradient fidelity. The proposed hybrid configurations achieve superior performance with one to two orders of magnitude fewer parameters than standard KANs, effectively mitigating the parameter explosion problem while preserving KAN-style expressiveness. DFKAN provides a principled, scalable framework for incorporating adaptive non-linearities, proving particularly advantageous for data-efficient learning and interpretable function discovery in scientific applications.
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DualFlexKAN offers a more efficient and flexible alternative to MLPs and KANs by decoupling input transformations and output activations, enabling hybrid networks with improved accuracy and reduced parameter count. Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) address this limitation throug...
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Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) rely on pre-defined, fixed activation functions, imposing a static inductive bias that forces the network to approximate complex topologies solely through increased depth and width. Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) address this limitation through...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. This decoupling enables hybrid networks that optimize the trade-off between expressiveness and computational cost.
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Novel Architectures moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10.
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DualFlexKAN offers a more efficient and flexible alternative to MLPs and KANs by decoupling input transformations and output activations, enabling hybrid networks with improved accuracy and reduced parameter count. Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) address this limitation through edge-centric learnable functions, yet their formulation suffers from quadratic parameter scaling and architectural rigidity that hinders the effective integration of standard regularization techniques.
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Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) rely on pre-defined, fixed activation functions, imposing a static inductive bias that forces the network to approximate complex topologies solely through increased depth and width. Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) address this limitation through edge-centric learnable functions, yet their formulation suffers from quadratic parameter scaling and architectural rigidity that hinders the effective integration of standard regularization techniques.
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Novel Architectures moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10.
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