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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 contains an expository account of persistent homology and its usefulness for topological data analysis. An alternative foundation for level-set persistence is presented using sheaves and cosheaves.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Justin Curry

In recent years there has been noticeable interest in the study of the "shape of data". Among the many ways a "shape" could be defined, topology is the most general one, as it describes an object in terms of its connectivity structure:…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-22 Tullia Padellini , Pierpaolo Brutti

Multidimensional persistence studies topological features of shapes by analyzing the lower level sets of vector-valued functions. The rank invariant completely determines the multidimensional analogue of persistent homology groups. We prove…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-08-04 Andrea Cerri , Barbara Di Fabio , Massimo Ferri , Patrizio Frosini , Claudia Landi

The machine learning technique of persistent homology classifies complex systems or datasets by computing their topological features over a range of characteristic scales. There is growing interest in applying persistent homology to…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-03 Daniel Leykam , Dimitris G Angelakis

Artificial neural networks can learn complex, salient data features to achieve a given task. On the opposite end of the spectrum, mathematically grounded methods such as topological data analysis allow users to design analysis pipelines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Mattia G. Bergomi , Massimo Ferri , Alessandro Mella , Pietro Vertechi

We present a novel method to explicitly incorporate topological prior knowledge into deep learning based segmentation, which is, to our knowledge, the first work to do so. Our method uses the concept of persistent homology, a tool from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-30 James R. Clough , Ilkay Oksuz , Nicholas Byrne , Julia A. Schnabel , Andrew P. King

We apply persistent homology, the main method in topological data analysis, to the study of demographic data. Persistence diagrams efficiently summarize information about clusters or peaks in a region's demographic data. To illustrate how…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Jakini A. Kauba , Thomas Weighill

The interleaving distance was originally defined in the field of Topological Data Analysis (TDA) by Chazal et al. as a metric on the class of persistence modules parametrized over the real line. Bubenik et al. subsequently extended the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-01 Vin de Silva , Elizabeth Munch , Anastasios Stefanou

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

In this work we use the persistent homology method, a technique in topological data analysis (TDA), to extract essential topological features from the data space and combine them with deep learning features for classification tasks. In TDA,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Mariana Dória Prata Lima , Gilson Antonio Giraldi , Gastão Florêncio Miranda Junior

As the size of data increase, persistence diagrams often exhibit structured asymptotic behavior, converging weakly to a Radon measure. However, conventional vector summaries such as persistence landscapes are not well-behaved in this…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Wanchen Zhao , Peter Bubenik

We present a unified pipeline for univariate time series classification via complex networks and persistent homology. A time series is mapped to a graph through one of five constructions across three families (visibility (natural and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-05 İsmail Güzel

Persistent homology has been widely used to discover hidden topological structures in data across various applications, including music data. To apply persistent homology, a distance or metric must be defined between points in a point cloud…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Eunwoo Heo , Byeongchan Choi , Myung ock Kim , Mai Lan Tran , Jae-Hun Jung

Persistent homology is a popular data analysis technique that is used to capture the changing topology of a filtration associated with some simplicial complex $K$. These topological changes are summarized in persistence diagrams. We propose…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Tamal K. Dey , Ryan Slechta

We present a topological pipeline for automated multiclass emotion recognition from eye-tracking data. Delay embeddings of gaze trajectories are analyzed using persistent homology. From the resulting persistence diagrams, we extract…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Arsha Niksa , Hooman Zare , Ali Shahrabi , Hanieh Hatami , Mohammadreza Razvan

Persistent Homology is a powerful tool in Topological Data Analysis (TDA) to capture topological properties of data succinctly at different spatial resolutions. For graphical data, shape, and structure of the neighborhood of individual data…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Sumit Bhatia , Bapi Chatterjee , Deepak Nathani , Manohar Kaul

Multiparameter persistence modules come up naturally in topological data analysis and topological robotics. Given a metric graph $(X,\delta)$, the second configuration space of $(X,\delta)$ with proximity parameters (for example, the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Wenwen Li

We develop some aspects of the homological algebra of persistence modules, in both the one-parameter and multi-parameter settings, considered as either sheaves or graded modules. The two theories are different. We consider the graded module…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Peter Bubenik , Nikola Milicevic

Such modern applications of topology as data analysis and digital image analysis have to deal with noise and other uncertainty. In this environment, topological spaces often appear equipped with a real valued function. Persistence is a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2011-05-02 Peter Saveliev