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20222026
most citedKAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

533 citations · 584 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

23 papers

cs.AI2026

SMat-Attention: Structured Long-Context Sequence Modeling

Emile Anand, Abdullah Ateyeh, Archer Wang +1

Long-context sequence models face a fundamental tradeoff: softmax attention uses flexible token-level interactions at quadratic cost, whereas linear attention obtains linear-time t…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Fast, Accurate, and Scalable Fermionic Neural Networks via Translation Equivariance

David D. Dai, Yen-Ting Lin, Marin Soljačić

We demonstrate that designing a neural quantum state to be an exact eigenstate of the Hamiltonian's symmetries significantly improves both training speed and final variational ener…

physics.hist-ph2026

Can AI Follow In Einstein's Footsteps?

Michael Shalyt, Nathan Regev, Marin Soljačić +1

AI is accelerating physics discovery, but perhaps away from Einstein-level theory building. To understand this gap, we must recognize a striking trend: while being very successful,…

cs.CV2026

End-to-End Optimization of Incoherent Imaging for Classification Under Detector-Limited Readout

Archer Wang, Joshua Chen, Sachin Vaidya +1

End-to-end co-optimization of optical front-ends (e.g. metasurfaces) and neural network back-ends has been widely applied to imaging tasks, yet a formalism characterizing when and…

cs.CV2026

Everything at Every Scale: Scale-Invariant Diffusion with Continuous Super-Resolution

Zixin Jessie Chen, Zhuo Chen, Archer Wang +4

Creating images from noise is image generation; reconstructing fine details from coarse inputs is super-resolution. Despite their practical differences, both can be understood as r…

cs.CV2026

TraversalBench: Challenging Paths to Follow for Vision Language Models

Clara Petrova, Zhuo Chen, Marin Soljačić

Vision-language models (VLMs) perform strongly on multimodal benchmarks, but their ability to follow complex visual paths remains under-tested. We introduce TraversalBench, a contr…

cs.RO2026

A Framework for Closed-Loop Robotic Assembly, Alignment and Self-Recovery of Precision Optical Systems

Seou Choi, Sachin Vaidya, Caio Silva +4

Robotic automation has transformed scientific workflows in domains such as chemistry and materials science, yet free-space optics, which is a high precision domain, remains largely…

cs.CV2026

Unsupervised Decomposition and Recombination with Discriminator-Driven Diffusion Models

Archer Wang, Emile Anand, Yilun Du +1

Decomposing complex data into factorized representations can reveal reusable components and enable synthesizing new samples via component recombination. We investigate this in the…

physics.optics2026

Active learning for photonic crystals

Ryan Lopez, Charlotte Loh, Rumen Dangovski +1

Active learning for photonic crystals explores the integration of analytic approximate Bayesian last layer neural networks (LL-BNNs) with uncertainty-driven sample selection to acc…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Learning simple heuristic rules for classifying materials based on chemical composition

Andrew Ma, Marin Soljačić

In the past decade, there has been a significant interest in the use of machine learning approaches in materials science research. Conventional deep learning approaches that rely o…

cs.CL2025

LM: Mutual Information Scaling Law for Long-Context Language Modeling

Zhuo Chen, Oriol Mayné i Comas, Zhuotao Jin +2

We present a universal theoretical framework for understanding long-context language modeling based on a bipartite mutual information scaling law that we rigorously verify in natur…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Predicting band gap from chemical composition: A simple learned model for a material property with atypical statistics

Andrew Ma, Owen Dugan, Marin Soljačić

In solid-state materials science, substantial efforts have been devoted to the calculation and modeling of the electronic band gap. While a wide range of ab initio methods and mach…

cs.CL2024

OccamLLM: Fast and Exact Language Model Arithmetic in a Single Step

Owen Dugan, Donato Manuel Jimenez Beneto, Charlotte Loh +3

Despite significant advancements in text generation and reasoning, Large Language Models (LLMs) still face challenges in accurately performing complex arithmetic operations. Langua…

cs.LG2024★ 6 cited

QuanTA: Efficient High-Rank Fine-Tuning of LLMs with Quantum-Informed Tensor Adaptation

Zhuo Chen, Rumen Dangovski, Charlotte Loh +3

We propose Quantum-informed Tensor Adaptation (QuanTA), a novel, easy-to-implement, fine-tuning method with no inference overhead for large-scale pre-trained language models. By le…

cs.LG2024★ 533 cited

KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

Ziming Liu, Yixuan Wang, Sachin Vaidya +5

Inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem, we propose Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) as promising alternatives to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs). While MLPs have…

cs.LG2024

TENG: Time-Evolving Natural Gradient for Solving PDEs With Deep Neural Nets Toward Machine Precision

Zhuo Chen, Jacob McCarran, Esteban Vizcaino +2

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are instrumental for modeling dynamical systems in science and engineering. The advent of neural networks has initiated a significant shift in…

physics.optics2024★ 3 cited

Photonic probabilistic machine learning using quantum vacuum noise

Seou Choi, Yannick Salamin, Charles Roques-Carmes +7

Probabilistic machine learning utilizes controllable sources of randomness to encode uncertainty and enable statistical modeling. Harnessing the pure randomness of quantum vacuum n…

cs.LG2023★ 37 cited

Multimodal Foundation Models for Material Property Prediction and Discovery

Viggo Moro, Charlotte Loh, Rumen Dangovski +7

Artificial intelligence is transforming computational materials science, improving the prediction of material properties, and accelerating the discovery of novel materials. Recentl…

quant-ph2023★ 3 cited

ANTN: Bridging Autoregressive Neural Networks and Tensor Networks for Quantum Many-Body Simulation

Zhuo Chen, Laker Newhouse, Eddie Chen +2

Quantum many-body physics simulation has important impacts on understanding fundamental science and has applications to quantum materials design and quantum technology. However, du…

physics.optics2023

Topological electromagnetic waves in dispersive and lossy plasma crystals

Chen Qian, Yue Jiang, Jicheng Jin +4

Topological photonic crystals, which offer topologically protected and back-scattering-immune transport channels, have recently gained significant attention for both scientific and…

cs.LG2023

Model Stitching: Looking For Functional Similarity Between Representations

Adriano Hernandez, Rumen Dangovski, Peter Y. Lu +1

Model stitching (Lenc & Vedaldi 2015) is a compelling methodology to compare different neural network representations, because it allows us to measure to what degree they may be in…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Multi-Symmetry Ensembles: Improving Diversity and Generalization via Opposing Symmetries

Charlotte Loh, Seungwook Han, Shivchander Sudalairaj +5

Deep ensembles (DE) have been successful in improving model performance by learning diverse members via the stochasticity of random initialization. While recent works have attempte…

quant-ph2022

QuACK: Accelerating Gradient-Based Quantum Optimization with Koopman Operator Learning

Di Luo, Jiayu Shen, Rumen Dangovski +1

Quantum optimization, a key application of quantum computing, has traditionally been stymied by the linearly increasing complexity of gradient calculations with an increasing numbe…