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This study evaluates Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) for personal context recognition, demonstrating their superior accuracy over standard MLPs but highlighting a significant trade-off in training efficiency compared to TabM models. The research underscores that while KANs offer promising architectural advantages for specific AI tasks, their current computational overhead remains a critical hurdle for practical deployment.
Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Personal Context Recognition on ExtraSensory
arXiv:2610.05250v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Kolmogorov--Arnold Networks (KANs) have attracted increasing attention in recent years, with applications across a wide range of AI tasks. In this paper, we evaluate several KAN variants on the ExtraSensory dataset for personal context recognition and compare them with a multilayer perceptron (MLP) and TabM. We conduct the main experiments using five user folds and three random seeds per fold and report the average Macro-F1, Micro-F1, and training time. We also perform shallow ablation studies on grid size, the number of grids, and data normalization to examine their effects on KAN performance. The results show that all evaluated KAN variants significantly outperform MLP in terms of Macro-F1 and Micro-F1 and achieve performance comparable to TabM. However, KAN variants generally require more training time, while TabM provides a more favorable balance between predictive performance and training efficiency. These results suggest that KANs are promising for personal context recognition, while their computational efficiency remains an important challenge. Our source code is publicly available at: https://github.com/hoangthangta/ExtraSensory-KANs.
Abstract:Kolmogorov--Arnold Networks (KANs) have attracted increasing attention in recent years, with applications across a wide range of AI tasks. In this paper, we evaluate several KAN variants on the ExtraSensory dataset for personal context recognition and compare them with a multilayer perceptron (MLP) and TabM. We conduct the main experiments using five user folds and three random seeds per fold and report the average Macro-F1, Micro-F1, and training time. We also perform shallow ablation studies on grid size, the number of grids, and data normalization to examine their effects on KAN performance. The results show that all evaluated KAN variants significantly outperform MLP in terms of Macro-F1 and Micro-F1 and achieve performance comparable to TabM. However, KAN variants generally require more training time, while TabM provides a more favorable balance between predictive performance and training efficiency. These results suggest that KANs are promising for personal context recognition, while their computational efficiency remains an important challenge. Our source code is publicly available at: this https URL.
Machine Learning (cs.LG)
arXiv:2610.05250 [cs.LG]
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