Publications

Publication List

• Phylogenetic Tree Inference with Tropical Axial Attention

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

  Venue/Year: arXiv, 2026

  Code: KurtPask/TropicalAxialAttention

  Preprint 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)

  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