2 papers
cs.LG2021
Learning phylogenetic trees as hyperbolic point configurations
Benjamin Wilson
We propose a novel method for the inference of phylogenetic trees that utilises point configurations on hyperbolic space as its optimisation landscape. Each taxon corresponds to a…
math.OC2018
Gradient descent in hyperbolic space
Benjamin Wilson, Matthias Leimeister
Gradient descent generalises naturally to Riemannian manifolds, and to hyperbolic -space, in particular. Namely, having calculated the gradient at the point on the manifold repr…