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Persistent homology provides a robust methodology to infer topological structures from point cloud data. Here we explore the persistent homology of point clouds embedded into a probabilistic setting, exploiting the theory of point…

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Biological systems rely on robust internal information processing: Survival depends on highly reproducible dynamics of regulatory processes. Biological information processing elements, however, are intrinsically noisy (genetic switches,…

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For years, a main focus of ecological research has been to better understand the complex dynamical interactions between species which comprise food webs. Using the connectance properties of a widely explored synthetic food web called the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-16 Sepideh Vafaie , Deepak Bal , Michael A. S. Thorne , Eric Forgoston

The topological analysis of four-dimensional (4D) image-type data is challenged by the immense size that these datasets can reach. This can render the direct application of methods, like persistent homology and convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Khalil Mathieu Hannouch , Stephan Chalup

When interacting motile units self-organize into flocks, they realize one of the most robust ordered state found in nature. However, after twenty five years of intense research, the very mechanism controlling the ordering dynamics of both…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-04 Amélie Chardac , Ludwig A. Hoffmann , Yoann Poupart , Luca Giomi , Denis Bartolo

In this work, we present a computational framework for exploring and analyzing the macroscopic dynamics of complex agent-based network models by integrating Topological Data Analysis with the Equation-Free Method. To demonstrate the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Konstantinos Spiliotis , Ole Sönnerborn , Haralampos Hatzikirou , Nikos I. Kavallaris

Complex networks describe a wide range of systems in nature and society, much quoted examples including the cell, a network of chemicals linked by chemical reactions, or the Internet, a network of routers and computers connected by physical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Reka Albert , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Topological Data Analysis has grown in popularity in recent years as a way to apply tools from algebraic topology to large data sets. One of the main tools in topological data analysis is persistent homology. This paper uses undergraduate…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Cheyne Glass , Elizabeth Vidaurre

The study of irreducible higher-order interactions has become a core topic of study in complex systems. Two of the most well-developed frameworks, topological data analysis and multivariate information theory, aim to provide formal tools…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Thomas F. Varley , Pedro A. M. Mediano , Alice Patania , Josh Bongard

Topological data analysis based on persistent homology has been applied to the molecular dynamics simulation for the fast ion-conducting phase ($\alpha$-phase) of AgI, to show its effectiveness on the ion-migration mechanism…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-26 Ryuhei Sato , Kazuto Akagi , Shigeyuki Takagi , Kartik Sau , Kazuaki Kisu , Hao Li , Shin-ichi Orimo

Various kinds of data are routinely represented as discrete probability distributions. Examples include text documents summarized by histograms of word occurrences and images represented as histograms of oriented gradients. Viewing a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Herbert Edelsbrunner , Ziga Virk , Hubert Wagner

In this article, we introduce a Topological Data Analysis (TDA) pipeline for neural spike train data. Understanding how the brain transforms sensory information into perception and behavior requires analyzing coordinated neural population…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-10 Cagatay Ayhan , Audrey N. Nash , Roberto Vincis , Martin Bauer , Richard Bertram , Tom Needham

Networked structures arise in a wide array of different contexts such as technological and transportation infrastructures, social phenomena, and biological systems. These highly interconnected systems have recently been the focus of a great…

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An understanding of the economic landscape in a world of ever increasing data necessitates representations of data that can inform policy, deepen understanding and guide future research. Topological Data Analysis offers a set of tools which…

Econometrics · Economics 2019-11-26 Pawel Dlotko , Simon Rudkin , Wanling Qiu

We study how the topology of feature embedding space changes as it passes through the layers of a well-trained deep neural network (DNN) through Betti numbers. Motivated by existing studies using simplicial complexes on shallow fully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Suryaka Suresh , Bishshoy Das , Vinayak Abrol , Sumantra Dutta Roy

We construct a continuum model for biological aggregations in which individuals experience long-range social attraction and short range dispersal. For the case of one spatial dimension, we study the steady states analytically and…

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Collective guidance of out-of-equilibrium systems without using external fields is a challenge of paramount importance in active matter, ranging from bacterial colonies to swarms of self-propelled particles. Designing strategies to guide…

Animals often exhibit changes in their behavior during migration. Telemetry data provide a way to observe geographic position of animals over time, but not necessarily changes in the dynamics of the movement process. Continuous-time models…

Applications · Statistics 2018-03-30 Mevin B. Hooten , Henry R. Scharf , Trevor J. Hefley , Aaron T. Pearse , Mitch D. Weegman

We present a new method for articulating scale-dependent topological descriptions of the network structure inherent in many complex systems. The technique is based on "Partition Decoupled Null Models,'' a new class of null models that…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2011-04-22 Greg Leibon , Scott D. Pauls , Daniel N. Rockmore , Robert Savell

A primary hypothesis that drives scientific and engineering studies is that data has structure. The dominant paradigms for describing such structure are statistics (e.g., moments, correlation functions) and signal processing (e.g.,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Alexander D. Smith , Pawel Dlotko , Victor M. Zavala