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We investigate the Voronoi diagrams with respect to an asymmetric tropical distance function, also for infinite point sets. These turn out to be much better behaved than the tropical Voronoi diagrams arising from the standard tropical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Andrei Comăneci , Michael Joswig

The Fr\'{e}chet mean is a fundamental notion of central tendency defined as a minimizer of a sum of squared distances in a general metric space. In this paper, we study Fr\'{e}chet means in tropical geometry -- a piecewise linear,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Kamillo Ferry , Bo Lin , Carlos Améndola , Anthea Monod , Ruriko Yoshida

We consider optimization problems that are formulated and solved in the framework of tropical mathematics. The problems consist in minimizing or maximizing functionals defined on vectors of finite-dimensional semimodules over idempotent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Nikolai Krivulin

Nonlinear metrics, such as the F1-score, Matthews correlation coefficient, and Fowlkes-Mallows index, are often used to evaluate the performance of machine learning models, in particular, when facing imbalanced datasets that contain more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Emir Demirović , Peter J. Stuckey

Optimal transport provides a metric which quantifies the dissimilarity between probability measures. For measures supported in discrete metric spaces, finding the optimal transport distance has cubic time complexity in the size of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Samantha Chen , Puoya Tabaghi , Yusu Wang

Tropical mathematics is used to establish a correspondence between certain microscopic and macroscopic objects in statistical models. Tropical algebra gives a common framework for macrosystems (subsets) and their elementary constituents…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 Mario Angelelli

In this paper we study tropicalization of Grassmannian and linear varieties. In particular, we study the tropical linear spaces cor- responding to the phylogenetic trees. We prove that corresponding to each subtree of the phylogenetic tree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-01 Ambedkar Dukkipati , Aritra Sen

Classification of gene trees is an important task both in the analysis of multi-locus phylogenetic data, and assessment of the convergence of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) analyses used in Bayesian phylogenetic tree reconstruction. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-10 Georgios Aliatimis , Ruriko Yoshida , Burak Boyaci , James A. Grant

We show that finding the classical bound of broad families of Bell inequalities can be naturally framed as the contraction of an associated tensor network, but in tropical algebra, where the sum is replaced by the minimum and the product is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Mengyao Hu , Jordi Tura

We present an algorithm for computing zero-dimensional tropical varieties based on triangular decomposition and Newton polygon methods. From it, we derive algorithms for computing points on and links of higher-dimensional tropical…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-16 Tommy Hofmann , Yue Ren

We fix the supports A=(A_1,...,A_k) of a list of tropical polynomials and define the tropical resultant TR(A) to be the set of choices of coefficients such that the tropical polynomials have a common solution. We prove that TR(A) is the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-12 Anders Jensen , Josephine Yu

When we apply comparative phylogenetic analyses to genome data, it is a well-known problem and challenge that some of given species (or taxa) often have missing genes. In such a case, we have to impute a missing part of a gene tree from a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-06 Ruriko Yoshida

We provide an explicit algorithm to solve the idempotent analogue of the discrete Monge-Kantorovich optimal mass transportation problem with the usual real number field replaced by the tropical (max-plus) semiring, in which addition is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Sergio Mayorga , Eugene Stepanov , Pedro Barrios

This paper presents a unified mathematical framework for inference in graphical models, building on the observation that graphical models are algebraic varieties. From this geometric viewpoint, observations generated from a model are…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-10 Lior Pachter , Bernd Sturmfels

We tropicalize the rational map that takes triples of points in the projective plane to the plane of quadrics passing through these points. The image of its tropicalization is contained in the tropicalization of its image. We identify these…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-02-04 Sarah Brodsky , Bernd Sturmfels

We introduce a convergent finite difference method for solving the optimal transportation problem on the sphere. The method applies to both the traditional squared geodesic cost (arising in mesh generation) and a logarithmic cost (arising…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Brittany Froese Hamfeldt , Axel G. R. Turnquist

The space of phylogenetic trees arises naturally in tropical geometry as the tropical Grassmannian. Tropical geometry therefore suggests a natural notion of a tropical path between two trees, given by a tropical line segment in the tropical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Shelby Cox

We study the tropicalization of intersections of plane curves, under the assumption that they have the same tropicalization. We show that the set of tropical divisors that arise in this manner is a pure dimensional balanced polyhedral…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Yoav Len , Matthew Satriano

We introduce a sheaf-theoretic approach to tropical homology, especially for tropical homology with potentially non-compact supports. Our setup is suited to study the functorial properties of tropical homology, and we show that it behaves…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-24 Andreas Gross , Farbod Shokrieh

Phylogenetic trees provide a fundamental representation of evolutionary relationships, yet the combinatorial explosion of possible tree topologies renders inference computationally challenging. Classical approaches to characterizing tree…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-29 Samir Bhatt , John Sabol , Papri Dey , Matthew J. Penn , David Duchene , Ruriko Yoshida