Phylogenetic Tree Inference with Tropical Axial Attention

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arXiv:2605.13894v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this work, we introduce a Tropical Axial Attention neural reasoning architecture that replaces vanilla softmax dot-product attention with max-plus operators, inducing a piecewise-linear structure aligned with dynamic programming formulations. From multi-species sequence alignments, our model learns all possible pairwise distances and is trained using a combination of $\ell_1$ and tropical symmetric distance metric losses with an ultrametric violation penalty. We leverage the well known isomorphic relationship between the space of all phylogenetic trees with $n$ species and tropical Grassmannian to show that tropical attention provides a natural geometric framework for phylogenetic inference. On empirical $DS1-DS11$ alignments, where true trees are unknown, the tropical model achieves the lowest MAE to its FastME-induced tree metric on every dataset, with a MAE reductions averaging 81.5% relative to Phyloformer and 98.4% relative than Phyloformer 2. These results suggest that tropical attention is a useful geometric inductive bias for neural phylogenetic inference, especially under distribution shift and when tree-metric consistency is important.

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