English
Related papers

Related papers: Tropical Fermat-Weber Polytropes

200 papers

We revisit the Universal Approximation Theorem(UAT) through the lens of the tropical geometry of neural networks and introduce a constructive, geometry-aware initialization for sigmoidal multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs). Tropical geometry…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-20 Yi-Shan Chu , Yueh-Cheng Kuo

The problem of computing saddle points is important in certain problems in numerical partial differential equations and computational chemistry, and is often solved numerically by a minimization problem over a set of mountain passes. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-20 C. H. Jeffrey Pang

A multidimensional optimization problem is formulated in the tropical mathematics setting as to maximize a nonlinear objective function, which is defined through a multiplicative conjugate transposition operator on vectors in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-12 Nikolai Krivulin

We study integral plane curves meeting at a single unibranch point and show that such curves must satisfy two equivalent conditions. A numeric condition: the local invariants of the curves at the contact point must be arithmetically…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Lucia Caporaso , Amos Turchet

The asymmetric tropical distance is a distance measure on the tropical torus $\mathbb{R}^n/\mathbb{R}\mathbf{1}$ and in particular on the Bergman fan $B(K_N) \subseteq \mathbb{R}^{\binom{N}{2}}/\mathbb{R}\mathbf{1}$ of the complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Fabian Lenzen , Lena Weis

We study the theory of equations in one variable over polyhedral semirings. The article revolves around a notion of solution to a polynomial equation over a polyhedral semiring. Our main results are a characterisation of local solutions in…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Madhusudan Manjunath

A tropical (or min-plus) semiring is a set $\mathbb{Z}$ (or $\mathbb{Z \cup \{\infty\}}$) endowed with two operations: $\oplus$, which is just usual minimum, and $\odot$, which is usual addition. In tropical algebra the vector $x$ is a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-04-23 Dima Grigoriev , Vladimir V. Podolskii

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

The spherical grasshopper problem is a geometric optimization problem that arises in the context of Bell inequalities and can be interpreted as identifying the best local hidden variable approximation to quantum singlet correlations for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 David Llamas , Dmitry Chistikov , Adrian Kent , Mike Paterson , Olga Goulko

We consider a minimum enclosing and maximum inscribed tropical balls for any given tropical polytope over the tropical projective torus in terms of the tropical metric with the max-plus algebra. We show that we can obtain such tropical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-07 David Barnhill , Ruriko Yoshida , Keiji Miura

We examine a multidimensional optimisation problem in the tropical mathematics setting. The problem involves the minimisation of a nonlinear function defined on a finite-dimensional semimodule over an idempotent semifield subject to linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-16 Nikolai Krivulin

In this paper we study algorithmic aspects of tropical intersection theory. We analyse how divisors and intersection products on tropical cycles can actually be computed using polyhedral geometry. The main focus of this paper is the study…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-29 Simon Hampe

In this work, we examine the process of Tropical Polynomial Division, a geometric method which seeks to emulate the division of regular polynomials, when applied to those of the max-plus semiring. This is done via the approximation of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Georgios Smyrnis , Petros Maragos

Consider the problem of constructing an experimental design, optimal for estimating parameters of a given statistical model with respect to a chosen criterion. To address this problem, the literature usually provides a single solution.…

Computation · Statistics 2024-11-05 Radoslav Harman , Lenka Filová , Samuel Rosa

We examine a new optimization problem formulated in the tropical mathematics setting as a further extension of certain known problems. The problem is to minimize a nonlinear objective function, which is defined on vectors over an idempotent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-24 N. Krivulin

A general theory is provided delivering convergence of maximal cyclically monotone mappings containing the supports of coupling measures of sequences of pairs of possibly random probability measures on Euclidean space. The theory is based…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-05 Johan Segers

In view of the great performance of circumcentered isometry methods for solving the best approximation problem, in this work we further investigate the locally proper circumcenter mapping and circumcentered method. Various examples of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-20 Hui Ouyang

We study a parabolic equation for finding solutions to the optimal transport problem on compact Riemannian manifolds with general cost functions. We show that if the cost satisfies the strong MTW condition and the stay-away singularity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-08-24 Young-Heon Kim , Jeffrey Streets , Micah Warren

We report on the implementation of an algorithm for computing the set of all regular triangulations of finitely many points in Euclidean space. This algorithm, which we call down-flip reverse search, can be restricted, e.g., to computing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Charles Jordan , Michael Joswig , Lars Kastner

Complex algebraic varieties become easy piecewise-linear objects after passing to the so-called tropical limit. Geometry of these limiting objects is known as tropical geometry. In this short survey we take a look at motivation and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-18 I. Itenberg , G. Mikhalkin