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Persistent homology is a topological feature used in a variety of applications such as generating features for data analysis and penalizing optimization problems. We develop an approach to accelerate persistent homology computations…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Yuan Luo , Bradley J. Nelson

We present a unified pipeline for univariate time series classification via complex networks and persistent homology. A time series is mapped to a graph through one of five constructions across three families (visibility (natural and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-05 İsmail Güzel

In the applied algebraic topology community, the persistent homology induced by the Vietoris-Rips simplicial filtration is a standard method for capturing topological information from metric spaces. In this paper, we consider a different,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Sunhyuk Lim , Facundo Memoli , Osman Berat Okutan

Recently, persistent homology has had tremendous success in biomolecular data analysis. It works by examining the topological relationship or connectivity of a group of atoms in a molecule at a variety of scales, then rendering a family of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-27 David Bramer , Guo-Wei Wei

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

Computing Persistent Homology for large point clouds remains a bottleneck for the wider adoption of persistent homology by the scientific community. We present an algorithm which can compute the degree-1 Vietoris-Rips Persistent Homology of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Musashi Ayrton Koyama , Facundo Memoli , Vanessa Robins , Katharine Turner

Computational topology provides a tool, persistent homology, to extract quantitative descriptors from structured objects (images, graphs, point clouds, etc). These descriptors can then be involved in optimization problems, typically as a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Mathieu Carriere , Yuichi Ike , Théo Lacombe , Naoki Nishikawa

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

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 --…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Konstantin Häberle , Barbara Bravi , Anthea Monod

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

Persistent homology is an important methodology in topological data analysis which adapts theory from algebraic topology to data settings. Computing persistent homology produces persistence diagrams, which have been successfully used in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-13 Yueqi Cao , Anthea Monod

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

Persistent homology (PH) is a recently developed theory in the field of algebraic topology to study shapes of datasets. It is an effective data analysis tool that is robust to noise and has been widely applied. We demonstrate a general…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Yu-Min Chung , Chuan-Shen Hu , Yu-Lun Lo , Hau-Tieng Wu

Observing critical phases in lattice models is challenging due to the need to analyze the finite time or size scaling of observables. We study how the computational topology technique of persistent homology can be used to characterize…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-09-05 Yu He , Shiqi Xia , Dimitris G. Angelakis , Daohong Song , Zhigang Chen , Daniel Leykam

Persistent homology, a method from topological data analysis, extracts robust, multi-scale features from data. It produces stable representations of time series by applying varying thresholds to their values (a process known as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Marius Huber , David R. Reich , Lena A. Jäger

Persistent homology (PH) is a method used in topological data analysis (TDA) to study qualitative features of data that persist across multiple scales. It is robust to perturbations of input data, independent of dimensions and coordinates,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Nina Otter , Mason A. Porter , Ulrike Tillmann , Peter Grindrod , Heather A. Harrington

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

Determining whether two graphs are isomorphic is a fundamental problem with practical applications in areas such as molecular chemistry or social network analysis, yet it remains a challenging task, with exact solutions often being…

Extracting useful information from large data sets can be a daunting task. Topological methods for analyzing data sets provide a powerful technique for extracting such information. Persistent homology is a sophisticated tool for identifying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-17 Seth Lloyd , Silvano Garnerone , Paolo Zanardi

The long computational time and large memory requirements for computing Vietoris Rips persistent homology from point clouds remains a significant deterrent to its application to big data. This paper aims to reduce the memory footprint of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Musashi Ayrton Koyama , Vanessa Robins , Katharine Turner