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This paper presents a mathematically rigorous framework for brain-inspired representation learning founded on the interplay between persistent topological structures and cohomological flows. Neural computation is reformulated as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Preksha Girish , Rachana Mysore , Mahanthesha U , Shrey Kumar , Shipra Prashant

We redevelop persistent homology (topological persistence) from a categorical point of view. The main objects of study are diagrams, indexed by the poset of real numbers, in some target category. The set of such diagrams has an interleaving…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Peter Bubenik , Jonathan A. Scott

Persistent homology, a technique from computational topology, has recently shown strong empirical performance in the context of graph classification. Being able to capture long range graph properties via higher-order topological features,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Rubén Ballester , Bastian Rieck

Persistent homology is a powerful mathematical tool that summarizes useful information about the shape of data allowing one to detect persistent topological features while one adjusts the resolution. However, the computation of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Bernardo Ameneyro , Vasileios Maroulas , George Siopsis

Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in the application of persistent homology, a topological tool for data analysis, to machine learning problems. Persistent homology is known for its ability to numerically characterize the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Jen-Yu Liu , Shyh-Kang Jeng , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Long lived topological features are distinguished from short lived ones (considered as topological noise) in simplicial complexes constructed from complex networks. A new topological invariant, persistent homology, is determined and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Danijela Horak , Slobodan Maletic , Milan Rajkovic

Network centrality measures play a crucial role in understanding graph structures, assessing the importance of nodes, paths, or cycles based on directed or reciprocal interactions encoded by vertices and edges. Estrada and Ross extended…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-04-26 John Rick D. Manzanares , Paul Samuel P. Ignacio

As complex networks find applications in a growing range of disciplines, the diversity of naturally occurring and model networks being studied is exploding. The adoption of a well-developed collection of network taxonomies is a natural…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-25 Ann Sizemore , Chad Giusti , Danielle Bassett

In this paper we study the persistent homology associated with topological crackle generated by distributions with an unbounded support. Persistent homology is a topological and algebraic structure that tracks the creation and destruction…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-04 Takashi Owada , Omer Bobrowski

Topological data analysis can extract effective information from higher-dimensional data. Its mathematical basis is persistent homology. The persistent homology can calculate topological features at different spatiotemporal scales of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-09-29 Dinghua Shi , Zhifeng Chen , Chuang Ma , Guanrong Chen

Persistent homology is a cornerstone of topological data analysis, offering a multiscale summary of topology with robustness to nuisance transformations, such as rotations and small deformations. Persistent homology has seen broad use…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-19 Zitian Wu , Arkaprava Roy , Leo L. Duan

This paper presents a new clustering algorithm for space-time data based on the concepts of topological data analysis and in particular, persistent homology. Employing persistent homology - a flexible mathematical tool from algebraic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-28 Umar Islambekov , Yulia Gel

A topological shape analysis is proposed and utilized to learn concepts that reflect shape commonalities. Our approach is two-fold: i) a spatial topology analysis of point cloud segment constellations within objects. Therein constellations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Christian A. Mueller , Andreas Birk

We propose a novel method for topological analysis of unweighted graphs which is based on \textit{persistent homology}. The proposed method maps the input graph to a complete weighted graph where the weighting function maps each edge to a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Padraig Corcoran

Motivated by analogies with basic density theorems in analytic number theory, we introduce a notion (and variations) of the homological density of one space in another. We use Weil's number field/ function field analogy to predict…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-06-13 Benson Farb , Jesse Wolfson , Melanie Matchett Wood

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…

Assume that a finite set of points is randomly sampled from a subspace of a metric space. Recent advances in computational topology have provided several approaches to recovering the geometric and topological properties of the underlying…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Peter Bubenik , Peter T. Kim

Topological data analysis provides a set of tools to uncover low-dimensional structure in noisy point clouds. Prominent amongst the tools is persistence homology, which summarizes birth-death times of homological features using data objects…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-05 James Matuk , Sebastian Kurtek , Karthik Bharath

Persistent homology is a method for computing the topological features present in a given data. Recently, there has been much interest in the integration of persistent homology as a computational step in neural networks or deep learning. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Padraig Corcoran , Bailin Deng

Persistent homology is a popular tool in Topological Data Analysis. It provides numerical characteristics of data sets which reflect global geometric properties. In order to be useful in practice, for example for feature generation in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Boris Goldfarb