{"ID":2823509,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00416","arxiv_id":"2601.00416","title":"ABFR-KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Functional Brain Analysis","abstract":"Functional connectivity (FC) analysis, a valuable tool for computer-aided brain disorder diagnosis, traditionally relies on atlas-based parcellation. However, issues relating to selection bias and a lack of regard for subject specificity can arise as a result of such parcellations. Addressing this, we propose ABFR-KAN, a transformer-based classification network that incorporates novel advanced brain function representation components with the power of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) to mitigate structural bias, improve anatomical conformity, and enhance the reliability of FC estimation. Extensive experiments on the ABIDE I dataset, including cross-site evaluation and ablation studies across varying model backbones and KAN configurations, demonstrate that ABFR-KAN consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines for autism spectrum distorder (ASD) classification. Our code is available at https://github.com/tbwa233/ABFR-KAN.","short_abstract":"Functional connectivity (FC) analysis, a valuable tool for computer-aided brain disorder diagnosis, traditionally relies on atlas-based parcellation. However, issues relating to selection bias and a lack of regard for subject specificity can arise as a result of such parcellations. Addressing this, we propose ABFR-KAN,...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00416","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.00416v1","authors":"[\"Tyler Ward\",\"Abdullah Imran\"]","published":"2026-01-01T18:10:11Z","proceeding":"cs.CV","tasks":"[\"cs.CV\"]","methods":"[\"Transformer\"]","has_code":false,"code_links":[{"ID":605502,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_id":2823509,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00416","paper_title":"ABFR-KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Functional Brain Analysis","repo_url":"https://github.com/tbwa233/ABFR-KAN","is_official":false,"mentioned_in_paper":false,"mentioned_in_github":true,"github_stars":0}]}