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We give necessary and sufficient criteria for elementary operations in a two-dimensional terrain to preserve the persistent homology induced by the height function. These operations are edge flips and removals of interior vertices,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Ulderico Fugacci , Michael Kerber , Hugo Manet

Graphs are a basic tool for the representation of modern data. The richness of the topological information contained in a graph goes far beyond its mere interpretation as a one-dimensional simplicial complex. We show how topological…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-11 Mattia G. Bergomi , Massimo Ferri , Lorenzo Zuffi

Complex prediction models such as deep learning are the output from fitting machine learning, neural networks, or AI models to a set of training data. These are now standard tools in science. A key challenge with the current generation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Meng Liu , Tamal K. Dey , David F. Gleich

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

This paper aims to discuss a method of quantifying the 'shape' of data, via a methodology called topological data analysis. The main tool within topological data analysis is persistent homology; this is a means of measuring the shape of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Tristan Gowdridge , Nikolaos Devilis , Keith Worden

In the context of state-space models, skeleton-based smoothing algorithms rely on a backward sampling step which by default has a $\mathcal O(N^2)$ complexity (where $N$ is the number of particles). Existing improvements in the literature…

Computation · Statistics 2023-03-08 Hai-Dang Dau , Nicolas Chopin

The medial axis transform is a well-known tool for shape recognition. Instead of the object contour, it equivalently describes a binary object in terms of a skeleton containing all centres of maximal inscribed discs. While this shape…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-06 Julia Gierke , Pascal Peter

Feature selection is an important tool to deal with high dimensional data. In unsupervised case, many popular algorithms aim at maintaining the structure of the original data. In this paper, we propose a simple and effective feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-06 Xiaoyun Li , Chengxi Wu , Ping Li

Persistent homology is a natural tool for probing the topological characteristics of weighted graphs, essentially focusing on their $0$-dimensional homology. While this area has been substantially studied, we present a new approach to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Omer Bobrowski , Primoz Skraba

Topological Machine Learning (TML) is an emerging field that leverages techniques from algebraic topology to analyze complex data structures in ways that traditional machine learning methods may not capture. This tutorial provides a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Baris Coskunuzer , Cüneyt Gürcan Akçora

Persistent homology is a mathematical tool used for studying the shape of data by extracting its topological features. It has gained popularity in network science due to its applicability in various network mining problems, including…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Mehmet Emin Aktas , Thu Nguyen , Rakin Riza , Muhammad Ifte Islam , Esra Akbas

Image segmentation is to extract meaningful objects from a given image. For degraded images due to occlusions, obscurities or noises, the accuracy of the segmentation result can be severely affected. To alleviate this problem, prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Daoping Zhang , Lok Ming Lui

Biological and physical systems often exhibit distinct structures at different spatial/temporal scales. Persistent homology is an algebraic tool that provides a mathematical framework for analyzing the multi-scale structures frequently…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Jonathan Jaquette , Miroslav Kramár

Data Science aims to extract meaningful knowledge from unorganised data. Real datasets usually come in the form of a cloud of points with only pairwise distances. Numerous applications require to visualise an overall shape of a noisy cloud…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Vitaliy Kurlin , Philip Smith

A general method for constructing simplicial complex from observed time series of dynamical systems based on the delay coordinate reconstruction procedure is presented. The obtained simplicial complex preserves all pertinent topological…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-22 Slobodan Maletic , Yi Zhao , Milan Rajkovic

Algorithms for persistent homology and zigzag persistent homology are well-studied for persistence modules where homomorphisms are induced by inclusion maps. In this paper, we propose a practical algorithm for computing persistence under…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-03-26 Tamal K. Dey , Fengtao Fan , Yusu Wang

While conventional computer vision emphasizes pixel-level and feature-based objectives, medical image analysis of intricate biological structures necessitates explicit representation of their complex topological properties. Despite their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Yousef Yeganeh , Rui Xiao , Goktug Guvercin , Nassir Navab , Azade Farshad

The Topological Signal Processing (TSP) framework has been recently developed to analyze signals defined over simplicial complexes, i.e. topological spaces represented by finite sets of elements that are closed under inclusion of subsets…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Stefania Sardellitti , Sergio Barbarossa , Lucia Testa

We characterize structures such as monotonicity, convexity, and modality in smooth regression curves using persistent homology. Persistent homology is a key tool in topological data analysis that detects higher-dimensional topological…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Satish Kumar , Subhra Sankar Dhar

Although random cell complexes occur throughout the physical sciences, there does not appear to be a standard way to quantify their statistical similarities and differences. The various proposals in the literature are usually motivated by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Benjamin Schweinhart , Jeremy Mason , Robert MacPherson