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Algebraic topology methods have recently played an important role for statistical analysis with complicated geometric structured data such as shapes, linked twist maps, and material data. Among them, \textit{persistent homology} is a…

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Recent interest in treespaces as well-founded mathematical domains for phylogenetic inference and statistical analysis for populations of anatomical trees has motivated research into efficient and rigorous methods for optimization problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-17 Sean Skwerer , Scott Provan , J. S. Marron

Persistence diagrams, which summarize the birth and death of homological features extracted from data, are employed as stable signatures for applications in image analysis and other areas. Besides simply considering the multiset of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Tamal K. Dey , Tao Hou , Sayan Mandal

We study random graphs with latent geometric structure, where the probability of each edge depends on the underlying random positions corresponding to the two endpoints. We focus on the setting where this conditional probability is a…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Suqi Liu , Miklos Z. Racz

Topological Data Analysis methods can be useful for classification and clustering tasks in many different fields as they can provide two dimensional persistence diagrams that summarize important information about the shape of potentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Bernardo Ameneyro , Rebekah Herrman , George Siopsis , Vasileios Maroulas

Advancements in data collection have led to increasingly common repeated observations with complex structures in biomedical studies. Treating these observations as random objects, rather than summarizing features as vectors, avoids feature…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-04 Jingru Zhang , Shengjie Zhang , Christopher W Jones , Mathias Basner , Haochang Shou

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is an approach to handle with big data by studying its shape. A main tool of TDA is the persistence diagram, and one can use it to compare data sets. One approach to learn on the similarity between two…

Applications · Statistics 2020-03-04 Sarit Agami

Persistent homology is a central methodology in topological data analysis that has been successfully implemented in many fields and is becoming increasingly popular and relevant. The output of persistent homology is a persistence diagram --…

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We consider the problem of estimating the Fr\'echet and conditional Fr\'echet mean from data taking values in separable metric spaces. Unlike Euclidean spaces, where well-established methods are available, there is no practical estimator…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-06 László Györfi , Pierre Humbert , Batiste Le Bars

Over the past decade, the techniques of topological data analysis (TDA) have grown into prominence to describe the shape of data. In recent years, there has been increasing interest in developing statistical methods and in particular…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-13 Umar Islambekov , Hasani Pathirana

We introduce the persistence heatmap, a parametrized summary based on representative cycles in persistence diagrams, designed to enhance stability and explainability in topological data analysis. Algorithms to compute persistence diagrams…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Himanshu Yadav , Alexander Wagner , Peter Bubenik

This paper investigates the Fr\'echet mean of the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph $G_{n,p}$ with respect to the Frobenius distance on graph Laplacians, a metric that captures global structural information beyond local edge flips. We first…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Qunqiang Feng , Zixin Tang , Zhishui Hu

The availability of large datasets composed of graphs creates an unprecedented need to invent novel tools in statistical learning for graph-valued random variables. To characterize the average of a sample of graphs, one can compute the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Daniel Ferguson , Francois G. Meyer

We prove an equivalence between open questions about the embeddability of the space of persistence diagrams and the space of probability distributions (i.e.~Wasserstein space). It is known that for many natural metrics, no coarse embedding…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Neil Pritchard , Thomas Weighill

This work addresses the rising demand for novel tools in statistical and machine learning for "graph-valued random variables" by proposing a fast algorithm to compute the sample Frechet mean, which replaces the concept of sample mean for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Adam Sanchez , François G. Meyer

This article introduces a new class of models for multiple networks. The core idea is to parametrize a distribution on labelled graphs in terms of a Fr\'{e}chet mean graph (which depends on a user-specified choice of metric or graph…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-09 Simón Lunagómez , Sofia C. Olhede , Patrick J. Wolfe

To characterize the location (mean, median) of a set of graphs, one needs a notion of centrality that is adapted to metric spaces, since graph sets are not Euclidean spaces. A standard approach is to consider the Frechet mean. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-19 Daniel Ferguson , Francois G. Meyer

Persistence homology is a tool used to measure topological features that are present in data sets and functions. Persistence pairs births and deaths of these features as we iterate through the sublevel sets of the data or function of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-02-10 Brittany Terese Fasy

Persistence diagrams (PDs) play a key role in topological data analysis (TDA), in which they are routinely used to describe topological properties of complicated shapes. PDs enjoy strong stability properties and have proven their utility in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Mathieu Carrière , Marco Cuturi , Steve Oudot

This paper introduces a novel extension of Fr\'{e}chet means, called \textit{generalized Fr\'{e}chet means} as a comprehensive framework for characterizing features in probability distributions in general topological spaces. The generalized…

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