Phylogenetic Tree Inference with Tropical Axial Attention

ArXi:2605.13894v1 Announce Type: cross In this work, we On empirical $DS1-DS11$ alignments, where true trees are unknown, the tropical model produces distance matrices that are substantially closer to their BME-induced tree metrics than the baseline models. 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.