Summary of Incorporating Arbitrary Matrix Group Equivariance Into Kans, by Lexiang Hu et al.
Incorporating Arbitrary Matrix Group Equivariance into KANs
by Lexiang Hu, Yisen Wang, Zhouchen Lin
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Medium Difficulty summary: The paper proposes Equivariant Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (EKAN), a novel approach that combines the advantages of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) with matrix group equivariance. This is particularly important in scientific domains where symmetry is a crucial prior knowledge in machine learning. The authors construct gated spline basis functions and define an equivariant linear weights layer, which forms the EKAN layer. They then introduce a lift layer to align the input space of EKAN with the feature space of the dataset. Experimental results show that EKAN outperforms baseline models on symmetry-related tasks, such as particle scattering and the three-body problem, while using fewer parameters or smaller datasets. Additionally, EKAN achieves comparable results with state-of-the-art equivariant architectures in non-symbolic formula scenarios, such as top quark tagging with three jet constituents. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Low Difficulty summary: This paper introduces a new way to build artificial neural networks that can learn from data while respecting important patterns and symmetries. The authors develop a type of network called Equivariant Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks, or EKAN for short. They test their new approach on different types of problems and show that it can often perform better than existing methods while using fewer resources. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning
