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Bayesian KANs achieve near-minimax rates in new theory

Researchers have developed a theoretical framework for sparse Bayesian Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs). Their work establishes statistical foundations for KANs, demonstrating that these networks can achieve near-minimax posterior contraction rates. The analysis shows that KANs can adapt to unknown function smoothness and avoid the curse of dimensionality by controlling approximation complexity through width and parameter sparsity, rather than depth. AI

IMPACT Provides theoretical grounding for KANs, potentially influencing future neural network architectures and their statistical analysis.

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Jeunghun Oh, Kyeongwon Lee, Jaeyong Lee, Lizhen Lin ·

    Posterior Contraction Rates for Sparse Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks in Anisotropic Besov Spaces

    arXiv:2605.11652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study posterior contraction rates for sparse Bayesian Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) over anisotropic Besov spaces, providing a statistical foundation of KANs from a Bayesian point of view. We show that sparse Bayesian KANs eq…

  2. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Lizhen Lin ·

    Posterior Contraction Rates for Sparse Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks in Anisotropic Besov Spaces

    We study posterior contraction rates for sparse Bayesian Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) over anisotropic Besov spaces, providing a statistical foundation of KANs from a Bayesian point of view. We show that sparse Bayesian KANs equipped with spike-and-slab-type sparsity priors …