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Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a novel statistical technique, particularly powerful for the analysis of large and high dimensional data sets. Much of TDA is based on the tool of persistent homology, represented visually via persistence…

Applications · Statistics 2017-11-07 Sarit Agami , Robert J. Adler

Persistent homology is a technique recently developed in algebraic and computational topology well-suited to analysing structure in complex, high-dimensional data. In this paper, we exposit the theory of persistent homology from first…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-30 Matthew Pietrosanu

Persistent homology is a cornerstone of topological data analysis, offering a multiscale summary of topology with robustness to nuisance transformations, such as rotations and small deformations. Persistent homology has seen broad use…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-19 Zitian Wu , Arkaprava Roy , Leo L. Duan

Persistent homology is a method for probing topological properties of point clouds and functions. The method involves tracking the birth and death of topological features (2000) as one varies a tuning parameter. Features with short…

This paper brings together three distinct theories with the goal of quantifying shape textures with complex morphologies. Distance fields are central objects in shape representation, while topological data analysis uses algebraic topology…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Anna Song , Ka Man Yim , Anthea Monod

A geometric representation for multivariate extremes, based on the shapes of scaled sample clouds in light-tailed margins and their so-called limit sets, has recently been shown to connect several existing extremal dependence concepts.…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-03 Jennifer Wadsworth , Ryan Campbell

The idea of slicing divergences has been proven to be successful when comparing two probability measures in various machine learning applications including generative modeling, and consists in computing the expected value of a `base…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-05 Kimia Nadjahi , Alain Durmus , Lénaïc Chizat , Soheil Kolouri , Shahin Shahrampour , Umut Şimşekli

We address the problem of estimating topological features from data in high dimensional Euclidean spaces under the manifold assumption. Our approach is based on the computation of persistent homology of the space of data points endowed with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-23 Ximena Fernández , Eugenio Borghini , Gabriel Mindlin , Pablo Groisman

This paper presents a new clustering algorithm for space-time data based on the concepts of topological data analysis and in particular, persistent homology. Employing persistent homology - a flexible mathematical tool from algebraic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-28 Umar Islambekov , Yulia Gel

This paper is a survey of persistent homology, primarily as it is used in topological data analysis. It includes the theory of persistence modules, as well as stability theorems for persistence barcodes, generalized persistence,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Gunnar Carlsson

The aim of applied topology is to use and develop topological methods for applied mathematics, science and engineering. One of the main tools is persistent homology, an adaptation of classical homology, which assigns a barcode, i.e. a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Sara Kalisnik Verovsek

Although there is no doubt that multi-parameter persistent homology is a useful tool to analyse multi-variate data, efficient ways to compute these modules are still lacking in the available topological data analysis toolboxes. Other issues…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-04-15 Asilata Bapat , Robyn Brooks , Celia Hacker , Claudia Landi , Barbara I. Mahler

Upon a consistent topological statistical theory the application of structural statistics requires a quantification of the proximity structure of model spaces. An important tool to study these structures are Pseudo-Riemannian metrices,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Patrick Michl

We propose a novel method for topological analysis of unweighted graphs which is based on \textit{persistent homology}. The proposed method maps the input graph to a complete weighted graph where the weighting function maps each edge to a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Padraig Corcoran

Persistent homology captures the evolution of topological features of a model as a parameter changes. The most commonly used summary statistics of persistent homology are the barcode and the persistence diagram. Another summary statistic,…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-04-01 Violeta Kovacev-Nikolic , Peter Bubenik , Dragan Nikolić , Giseon Heo

We propose a statistical framework to identify topological differences in two populations of random geometric objects. The proposed framework involves first associating a topological signature with random geometric objects and then…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-17 Satish Kumar , Subhra Sankar Dhar

Persistent homology is a powerful mathematical tool that summarizes useful information about the shape of data allowing one to detect persistent topological features while one adjusts the resolution. However, the computation of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Bernardo Ameneyro , Vasileios Maroulas , George Siopsis

The predictions of mean-field electrodynamics can now be probed using direct numerical simulations of random flows and magnetic fields. When modelling astrophysical MHD, it is important to verify that such simulations are in agreement with…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-09-12 Irina Makarenko , Paul Bushby , Andrew Fletcher , Robin Henderson , Nikolay Makarenko , Anvar Shukurov

Asymmetric information distances are used to define asymmetric norms and quasimetrics on the statistical manifold and its dual space of random variables. Quasimetric topology, generated by the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence, is considered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-07 Roman V. Belavkin

Modern representation learning increasingly relies on unsupervised and self-supervised methods trained on large-scale unlabeled data. While these approaches achieve impressive generalization across tasks and domains, evaluating embedding…