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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

Through the use of examples, we explain one way in which applied topology has evolved since the birth of persistent homology in the early 2000s. The first applications of topology to data emphasized the global shape of a dataset, such as…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-04-23 Henry Adams , Michael Moy

Persistence diagrams (PDs), often characterized as sets of death and birth of homology class, have been known for providing a topological representation of a graph structure, which is often useful in machine learning tasks. Prior works rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Chau Pham , Trung Dang , Peter Chin

In this work, we present a generalization of extended persistent homology to filtrations of graded sub-groups by defining relative homology in this setting. Our work provides a more comprehensive and flexible approach to get an algebraic…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Fang Sun , Shengwen Xie , Xuezhi Zhao

Persistent homology is a popular computational tool for analyzing the topology of point clouds, such as the presence of loops or voids. However, many real-world datasets with low intrinsic dimensionality reside in an ambient space of much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Sebastian Damrich , Philipp Berens , Dmitry Kobak

A central problem in data-driven scientific inquiry is how to interpret structure in noisy, high-dimensional data. Topological data analysis (TDA) provides a solution via persistent homology, which encodes features of interest as…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Christian Lentz , Gregory Henselman-Petrusek , Lori Ziegelmeier

Many datasets can be viewed as a noisy sampling of an underlying space, and tools from topological data analysis can characterize this structure for the purpose of knowledge discovery. One such tool is persistent homology, which provides a…

Functional brain networks exhibit topological structures that reflect neural organization; however, statistical comparison of these networks is challenging for several reasons. This paper introduces a topologically invariant permutation…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-30 Sixtus Dakurah

A suitable feature representation that can both preserve the data intrinsic information and reduce data complexity and dimensionality is key to the performance of machine learning models. Deeply rooted in algebraic topology, persistent…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-11-02 Chi Seng Pun , Kelin Xia , Si Xian Lee

This paper introduces persistent homology, which is a powerful tool to characterize the shape of data using the mathematical concept of topology. We explain the fundamental idea of persistent homology from scratch using some examples. We…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Ippei Obayashi , Takenobu Nakamura , Yasuaki Hiraoka

Spatial transcriptomics studies are becoming increasingly large and commonplace, necessitating simultaneous analysis of a large number of spatially resolved variables. Correspondingly, a diverse range of methodologies have been proposed to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-09 James Boyle , Gregory Hamm , Eleanor Williams , Robin JG Hartman , Magnus Soderburg , Ian Henry , Michael Casey

Visualization in the emerging field of topological data analysis has progressed from persistence barcodes and persistence diagrams to display of two-parameter persistent homology. Although persistence barcodes and diagrams have permitted…

Applications · Statistics 2019-01-08 Raoul R. Wadhwa , Andrew Dhawan , Drew F. K. Williamson , Jacob G. Scott

We study a random dynamical system such that one transformation is randomly selected from a family of transformations and then applied on each iteration. For such random dynamical systems, we consider estimates of absolutely continuous…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-03-20 Tomoki Inoue

Identifying when different images are of the same object despite changes caused by imaging technologies, or processes such as growth, has many applications in fields such as computer vision and biological image analysis. One approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-12 Stephen Marsland , Robert McLachlan

Persistent homology is a powerful tool for characterizing the topology of a data set at various geometric scales. When applied to the description of molecular structures, persistent homology can capture the multiscale geometric features and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-07-31 Zixuan Cang , Guo-Wei Wei

Topological methods for data analysis present opportunities for enforcing certain invariances of broad interest in computer vision, including view-point in activity analysis, articulation in shape analysis, and measurement invariance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Anirudh Som , Kowshik Thopalli , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy , Vinay Venkataraman , Ankita Shukla , Pavan Turaga

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 this paper, we consider topological featurizations of data defined over simplicial complexes, like images and labeled graphs, obtained by convolving this data with various filters before computing persistence. Viewing a convolution…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Elchanan Solomon , Paul Bendich

Persistent homology is a multiscale method for analyzing the shape of sets and functions from point cloud data arising from an unknown distribution supported on those sets. When the size of the sample is large, direct computation of the…

Although there is no doubt that multi-parameter persistent homology is a useful tool to analyse multi-variate data, efficient ways to compute these modules are still lacking in the available topological data analysis toolboxes. Other issues…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-04-15 Asilata Bapat , Robyn Brooks , Celia Hacker , Claudia Landi , Barbara I. Mahler