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title: "Ziming Liu"
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status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Ziming Liu"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-09-16T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["kolmogorov-arnold-networks","vladimir-arnold","andrey-kolmogorov","max-tegmark"]
seek_code_commit: "unknown"
---


Lead author of the 2024 paper "KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks"
(arXiv:2404.19756, accepted ICLR 2025), written with Yixuan Wang, Sachin
Vaidya, Fabian Ruehle, James Halverson, Marin Soljačić, Thomas Y. Hou, and
Max Tegmark, at a team spanning MIT, Caltech, and Northeastern.

Matters to this vault as the architect who directly named and structurally
based a new deep-learning architecture on the 1957 Kolmogorov-Arnold
representation theorem, giving a 67-year-old pure-mathematics result an
actively-developed AI descendant
([[claim-liu-2024-kan-paper-names-architecture-after-kolmogorov-arnold-theorem]]).
Unknown to the vault before this session.

## References
- [[claim-liu-2024-kan-paper-names-architecture-after-kolmogorov-arnold-theorem]]