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We fully generalize a previously-developed computational geometry tool [1] to perform large-scale simulations of arbitrary two-dimensional faceted surfaces $z = h(x,y)$. Our method uses a three-component facet/edge/junction storage model,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-10-17 Scott A. Norris , Stephen J. Watson

We extend the persistence algorithm, viewed as an algorithm computing the homology of a complex of free persistence or graded modules, to complexes of modules that are not free. We replace persistence modules by their presentations and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Tamal K. Dey , Florian Russold , Shreyas N. Samaga

Regularization plays a crucial role in supervised learning. Most existing methods enforce a global regularization in a structure agnostic manner. In this paper, we initiate a new direction and propose to enforce the structural simplicity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Chao Chen , Xiuyan Ni , Qinxun Bai , Yusu Wang

Simplicial complexes form an important class of topological spaces that are frequently used in many application areas such as computer-aided design, computer graphics, and simulation. Representation learning on graphs, which are just 1-d…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Mustafa Hajij , Ghada Zamzmi , Theodore Papamarkou , Vasileios Maroulas , Xuanting Cai

The aim of this paper is to introduce a novel dictionary learning algorithm for sparse representation of signals defined over combinatorial topological spaces, specifically, regular cell complexes. Leveraging Hodge theory, we embed topology…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-17 Enrico Grimaldi , Claudio Battiloro , Paolo Di Lorenzo

The extension of persistent homology to multi-parameter setups is an algorithmic challenge. Since most computation tasks scale badly with the size of the input complex, an important pre-processing step consists of simplifying the input…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Ulderico Fugacci , Michael Kerber

Although the preservation of shape continuity and physiological anatomy is a natural assumption in the segmentation of medical images, it is often neglected by deep learning methods that mostly aim for the statistical modeling of input data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Yousef Yeganeh , Azade Farshad , Goktug Guevercin , Amr Abu-zer , Rui Xiao , Yongjian Tang , Ehsan Adeli , Nassir Navab

The Hamilton-Jacobi skeleton, also known as the medial axis, is a powerful shape descriptor that represents binary objects in terms of the centres of maximal inscribed discs. Despite its broad applicability, the medial axis suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Julia Gierke , Pascal Peter

The homological scaffold leverages persistent homology to construct a topologically sound summary of a weighted network. However, its crucial dependency on the choice of representative cycles hinders the ability to trace back global…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Marco Guerra , Alessandro De Gregorio , Ulderico Fugacci , Giovanni Petri , Francesco Vaccarino

We consider simplicial sets equipped with a notion of smallness, and observe that this slight "topological" extension of the "algebraic" simplicial language allows a concise reformulation of a number of classical notions in topology, e.g.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-30 M. Gavrilovich

In this work, we present a method to extract the skeleton of a self-occluded tree canopy by estimating the unobserved structures of the tree. A tree skeleton compactly describes the topological structure and contains useful information such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Chung Hee Kim , George Kantor

Recent advances in cellular research demonstrate that scRNA-seq characterizes cellular heterogeneity, while spatial transcriptomics reveals the spatial distribution of gene expression. Cell representation is the fundamental issue in the two…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-16 Kai Zheng , Shaokai Wang , Yunpei Xu , Qiming Lei , Qichang Zhao , Xiao Liang , Qilong Feng , Yaohang Li , Min Li , Jinhui Xu , Jianxin Wang

Persistent homology is a common technique in topological data analysis providing geometrical and topological information about the sample space. All this information, known as topological features, is summarized in persistence diagrams, and…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-05 Asael Fabian Martínez

Segmentation is often an essential intermediate step in image analysis. A volume segmentation characterizes the underlying volume image in terms of geometric information--segments, faces between segments, curves in which several faces…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-10-01 Bjoern Andres , Ullrich Koethe , Thorben Kroeger , Fred A. Hamprecht

We introduce a consistent estimator for the homology (an algebraic structure representing connected components and cycles) of level sets of both density and regression functions. Our method is based on kernel estimation. We apply this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Omer Bobrowski , Sayan Mukherjee , Jonathan E. Taylor

We present an algorithm which produces a decomposition of a regular cellular complex with a discrete Morse function analogous to the Morse-Smale decomposition of a smooth manifold with respect to a smooth Morse function. The advantage of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2008-12-09 Gregor Jerse , Neza Mramor Kosta

Spatial graphs are particular graphs for which the nodes are localized in space (e.g., public transport network, molecules, branching biological structures). In this work, we consider the problem of spatial graph reduction, that aims to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-10 Anna Calissano , Etienne Lasalle

With the emergence of graph databases, the task of frequent subgraph discovery has been extensively addressed. Although the proposed approaches in the literature have made this task feasible, the number of discovered frequent subgraphs is…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-08-16 Wajdi Dhifli , Mohamed Moussaoui , Rabie Saidi , Engelbert Mephu Nguifo

Improving the detailed understanding of the underlying properties and functions of biomolecules has recently attracted growing interest, enabled by the possibility of real-space imaging of single, intact macromolecules using Scanning…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Tim J. Seifert , Dhaneesh Kumar , Markus Etzkorn , Stephan Rauschenbach , Klaus Kern , Kelvin Anggara , Uta Schlickum

The manifold hypothesis, which assumes that data lies on or close to an unknown manifold of low intrinsic dimension, is a staple of modern machine learning research. However, recent work has shown that real-world data exhibits distinct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Julius von Rohrscheidt , Bastian Rieck