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5 papers

physics.comp-ph2026

Machine Learning-Driven Chemical Reactor Network Modeling of the Sandia-D Flame

Nicolas J. Tricard, Benjamin C. Koenig, Sili Deng

Turbulent combustion simulations are crucial for many scientific and engineering systems. However, the high cost to fully resolve the complex multiscale and multiphysics behavior m…

physics.chem-ph2026

Kolmogorov-Arnold Chemical Reaction Neural Networks for learning pressure-dependent kinetic rate laws

Benjamin C. Koenig, Sili Deng

Chemical Reaction Neural Networks (CRNNs) have emerged as an interpretable machine learning framework for discovering reaction kinetics directly from data, while strictly adhering…

physics.chem-ph2026

Learning continuous state of charge dependent thermal decomposition kinetics for Li-ion cathodes using Kolmogorov-Arnold Chemical Reaction Neural Networks (KA-CRNNs)

Benjamin C. Koenig, Sili Deng

Thermal runaway in lithium-ion batteries is strongly influenced by the state of charge (SOC). Existing predictive models typically infer scalar kinetic parameters at a full SOC or…

cs.LG2025

ChemKANs for Combustion Chemistry Modeling and Acceleration

Benjamin C. Koenig, Suyong Kim, Sili Deng

Efficient chemical kinetic model inference and application in combustion are challenging due to large ODE systems and widely separated time scales. Machine learning techniques have…

cs.LG2025

LeanKAN: A Parameter-Lean Kolmogorov-Arnold Network Layer with Improved Memory Efficiency and Convergence Behavior

Benjamin C. Koenig, Suyong Kim, Sili Deng

The recently proposed Kolmogorov-Arnold network (KAN) is a promising alternative to multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) for data-driven modeling. While original KAN layers were only cap…