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We present a new formalism for studying the topology of HII regions during the Epoch of Reionisation, based on persistent homology theory. With persistent homology, it is possible to follow the evolution of topological features over time.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Willem Elbers , Rien van de Weygaert

Optimization, a key tool in machine learning and statistics, relies on regularization to reduce overfitting. Traditional regularization methods control a norm of the solution to ensure its smoothness. Recently, topological methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Arnur Nigmetov , Aditi S. Krishnapriyan , Nicole Sanderson , Dmitriy Morozov

Persistent homology, a central tool of topological data analysis, provides invariants of data called barcodes (also known as persistence diagrams). A barcode is simply a multiset of real intervals. Recent work of Edelsbrunner, Jablonski,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-10-12 Ulrich Bauer , Michael Lesnick

Recently, it was found that there is a remarkable intuitive similarity between studies in theoretical computer science dealing with large data sets on the one hand, and categorical methods of topology and geometry in pure mathematics, on…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Yuri I. Manin , Matilde Marcolli

Although image denoising algorithms have attracted significant research attention, surprisingly few have been proposed for, or evaluated on, noise from imagery acquired under real low-light conditions. Moreover, noise characteristics are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Alexandra Malyugina , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , David Bull

A method is presented for the distributed computation of persistent homology, based on an extension of the generalized Mayer-Vietoris principle to filtered spaces. Cellular cosheaves and spectral sequences are used to compute global…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Iris H. R. Yoon , Robert Ghrist

In this paper we examine the use of topological methods for multivariate statistics. Using persistent homology from computational algebraic topology, a random sample is used to construct estimators of persistent homology. This estimation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Peter Bubenik , Gunnar Carlsson , Peter T. Kim , Zhiming Luo

Topological data analysis is an approach to study shape of a data set by means of topology. Its main object of study is the persistence diagram, which represents the topological features of the data set at different spatial resolutions.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Azmeer Nordin , Mohd Salmi Md Noorani , Nurulkamal Masseran , Mohd Sabri Ismail , Nur Firyal Roslan

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

Single-parameter persistent homology, a key tool in topological data analysis, has been widely applied to data problems along with statistical techniques that quantify the significance of the results. In contrast, statistical techniques for…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-14 Matthew Wright , Xiaojun Zheng

We use topological data analysis to study "functional networks" that we construct from time-series data from both experimental and synthetic sources. We use persistent homology with a weight rank clique filtration to gain insights into…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-24 Bernadette J. Stolz , Heather A. Harrington , Mason A. Porter

Persistent homology barcodes and diagrams are a cornerstone of topological data analysis that capture the "shape" of a wide range of complex data structures, such as point clouds, networks, and functions. However, their use in statistical…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Qiquan Wang , Inés García-Redondo , Pierre Faugère , Gregory Henselman-Petrusek , Anthea Monod

We present a new method for the statistical process control of lattice structures using tools from Topological Data Analysis. Motivated by applications in additive manufacturing, such as aerospace components and biomedical implants, where…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-15 Yulin An , Xueqi Zhao , Enrique del Castillo

Let P be a distribution with support S. The salient features of S can be quantified with persistent homology, which summarizes topological features of the sublevel sets of the distance function (the distance of any point x to S). Given a…

We demonstrate how to use persistent homology for cosmological parameter inference in a tomographic cosmic shear survey. We obtain the first cosmological parameter constraints from persistent homology by applying our method to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 Sven Heydenreich , Benjamin Brück , Pierre Burger , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Sandra Unruh , Tiago Castro , Klaus Dolag , Nicolas Martinet

Time-delay embedding is a fundamental technique in Topological Data Analysis (TDA) for reconstructing the phase space dynamics of time-series data. Persistent homology effectively identifies global topological features, such as loops…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Donghyun Park , Junhyun An , Taehyoung Kim , Jisu Kim

Persistent Homology (PH) offers stable, multi-scale descriptors of intrinsic shape structure by capturing connected components, loops, and voids that persist across scales, providing invariants that complement purely geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Prachi Kudeshia , Jiju Poovvancheri , Amr Ghoneim , Dong Chen

Topological methods are very rarely used in structural health monitoring (SHM), or indeed in structural dynamics generally, especially when considering the structure and topology of observed data. Topological methods can provide a way of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Tristan Gowdridge , Nikolaos Dervilis , Keith Worden

The field of mathematical morphology offers well-studied techniques for image processing. In this work, we view morphological operations through the lens of persistent homology, a tool at the heart of the field of topological data analysis.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yu-Min Chung , Sarah Day , Chuan-Shen Hu

In this paper we study multidimensional persistence modules [5,13] via what we call tame functors and noise systems. A noise system leads to a pseudo-metric topology on the category of tame functors. We show how this pseudo-metric can be…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Martina Scolamiero , Wojciech Chachólski , Anders Lundman , Ryan Ramanujam , Sebastian Öberg