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In tropical algebraic geometry, the solution sets of polynomial equations are piecewise-linear. We introduce the tropical variety of a polynomial ideal, and we identify it with a polyhedral subcomplex of the Grobner fan. The tropical…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Speyer , Bernd Sturmfels

We consider the problem of estimating the Fr\'echet and conditional Fr\'echet mean from data taking values in separable metric spaces. Unlike Euclidean spaces, where well-established methods are available, there is no practical estimator…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-06 László Györfi , Pierre Humbert , Batiste Le Bars

The Fr\'echet mean is an important statistical summary and measure of centrality of data; it has been defined and studied for persistent homology captured by persistence diagrams. However, the complicated geometry of the space of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Yueqi Cao , Anthea Monod

Fr\'echet mean and variance provide a way of obtaining mean and variance for general metric space valued random variables and can be used for statistical analysis of data objects that lie in abstract spaces devoid of algebraic structure and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Paromita Dubey , Hans-Georg Müller

We develop a tropical analogue of the classical double description method allowing one to compute an internal representation (in terms of vertices) of a polyhedron defined externally (by inequalities). The heart of the tropical algorithm is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-12-30 Xavier Allamigeon , Stephane Gaubert , Eric Goubault

To characterize the location (mean, median) of a set of graphs, one needs a notion of centrality that is adapted to metric spaces, since graph sets are not Euclidean spaces. A standard approach is to consider the Fr\'echet mean. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Daniel Ferguson , François G. Meyer

In this research, we investigate a tropical principal component analysis (PCA) as a best-fit Stiefel tropical linear space to a given sample over the tropical projective torus for its dimensionality reduction and visualization. Especially,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Keiji Miura , Ruriko Yoshida

We consider multidimensional optimization problems, which are formulated and solved in terms of tropical mathematics. The problems are to minimize (maximize) a linear or nonlinear function defined on vectors over an idempotent semifield,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-18 N. Krivulin

We prove that the congruence on the tropical rational function semifield in $n$-variables associated with a subset $V$ of $\boldsymbol{R}^n$ is finitely generated if and only if the closure of $V$ is a finite union of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-24 JuAe Song

We apply methods and techniques of tropical optimization to develop a new theoretical and computational framework for the implementation of the Analytic Hierarchy Process in multi-criteria problems of rating alternatives from pairwise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-01 N. Krivulin , S. Sergeev

We apply methods and techniques of tropical optimization to develop a new theoretical and computational framework for the implementation of the Analytic Hierarchy Process in multi-criteria problems of rating alternatives from pairwise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-11 Nikolai Krivulin , Sergei Sergeev

An unconstrained optimization problem is formulated in terms of tropical mathematics to minimize a functional that is defined on a vector set by a matrix and calculated through multiplicative conjugate transposition. For some particular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-30 Nikolai Krivulin

The paper focuses on a multidimensional optimization problem, which is formulated in terms of tropical mathematics and consists in minimizing a nonlinear objective function subject to linear inequality constraints. To solve the problem, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-15 Nikolai Krivulin

There is a well known correspondence between the triangle inequality for a distance function on a finite set, and idempotency of an associated matrix over the tropical semiring. Recent research has shed new light on the structure…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2012-03-13 Marianne Johnson , Mark Kambites

We introduce the notion of tropical defects, certificates that a system of polynomial equations is not a tropical basis, and provide two algorithms for finding them in affine spaces of complementary dimension to the zero set. We use these…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Paul Görlach , Yue Ren , Jeff Sommars

Can algebraic geometry enhance the sharpness, robustness, and interpretability of modern neural reasoning models by equipping them with a mathematically grounded inductive bias? To answer this, we introduce Tropical Attention, an attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Baran Hashemi , Kurt Pasque , Chris Teska , Ruriko Yoshida

We consider constrained optimization problems defined in the tropical algebra setting on a linearly ordered, algebraically complete (radicable) idempotent semifield (a semiring with idempotent addition and invertible multiplication). The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Nikolai Krivulin

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

We introduce new discrete best approximation problems, formulated and solved in the framework of tropical algebra, which deals with semirings and semifields with idempotent addition. Given a set of samples, each consisting of the input and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Nikolai Krivulin

We investigate location problems whose optimum lies in the tropical convex hull of the input points. Firstly, we study geodesically star-convex sets under the asymmetric tropical distance and introduce the class of tropically quasiconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Andrei Comăneci