Publications

Publication List

• Phylogenetic Tree Inference with Tropical Axial Attention

  Authors: Chris Teska, Kurt Pasque, Ruriko Yoshida, Baran Hashemi

  Venue/Year: Frontiers in Systems Biology, Volume 6, 2026

  Status: Accepted August 6, 2026; final formatted article forthcoming.

  DOI: 10.3389/fsysb.2026.1886918

  Preprint: arXiv:2605.13894

  Code: KurtPask/TropicalAxialAttention

  Journal · Accepted Phylogenetics

• Tropical Attention: Neural Algorithmic Reasoning for Combinatorial Algorithms

  Authors: Baran Hashemi, Kurt Pasque, Chris Teska, Ruriko Yoshida

  Venue/Year: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2025 (Poster)

  Code: Baran-phys/Tropical-Attention

  Conference Neural Reasoning

• Adversarially robust neural network decision boundaries via tropical geometry

  Authors: Kurt Pasque, Christopher Teska, Ruriko Yoshida, Keiji Miura, Jefferson Huang

  Venue/Year: Neural Networks, Volume 199, 2026

  DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2026.108624

  Journal Robustness

• Tropical Geometry in Neural Networks: A Novel Defense against Adversarial Attack

  Authors: Kurt Pasque

  Venue/Year: Naval Postgraduate School Master's thesis, 2024

  Master's Thesis