3 papers
q-bio.PE2026
Phylogenetic Tree Inference with Tropical Axial Attention
Chris Teska, Kurt Pasque, Ruriko Yoshida +1
In this work, we introduce a Tropical Axial Attention neural reasoning architecture that replaces vanilla softmax dot-product attention with max-plus operators, inducing a piecewis…
cs.LG2025
Tropical Attention: Neural Algorithmic Reasoning for Combinatorial Algorithms
Baran Hashemi, Kurt Pasque, Chris Teska +1
Can algebraic geometry enhance the sharpness, robustness, and interpretability of modern neural reasoning models by equipping them with a mathematically grounded inductive bias? To…
cs.LG2024
Tropical Decision Boundaries for Neural Networks Are Robust Against Adversarial Attacks
Kurt Pasque, Christopher Teska, Ruriko Yoshida +2
We introduce a simple, easy to implement, and computationally efficient tropical convolutional neural network architecture that is robust against adversarial attacks. We exploit th…