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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

Persistence diagrams, the most common descriptors of Topological Data Analysis, encode topological properties of data and have already proved pivotal in many different applications of data science. However, since the (metric) space of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-10 Mathieu Carrière , Frédéric Chazal , Yuichi Ike , Théo Lacombe , Martin Royer , Yuhei Umeda

Topological data analysis is an approach to study shape of a data set by means of topology. Its main object of study is the persistence diagram, which represents the topological features of the data set at different spatial resolutions.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Azmeer Nordin , Mohd Salmi Md Noorani , Nurulkamal Masseran , Mohd Sabri Ismail , Nur Firyal Roslan

Recently a new feature representation and data analysis methodology based on a topological tool called persistent homology (and its corresponding persistence diagram summary) has started to attract momentum. A series of methods have been…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Qi Zhao , Yusu Wang

Topological data analysis (TDA) is an area of data science that focuses on using invariants from algebraic topology to provide multiscale shape descriptors for geometric data sets such as point clouds. One of the most important such…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-21 David Loiseaux , Mathieu Carrière , Andrew J. Blumberg

In this paper, we analyze the spatial information of deep features, and propose two complementary regressions for robust visual tracking. First, we propose a kernelized ridge regression model wherein the kernel value is defined as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Chong Sun , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Persistence diagrams have been widely recognized as a compact descriptor for characterizing multiscale topological features in data. When many datasets are available, statistical features embedded in those persistence diagrams can be…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-07-07 Ippei Obayashi , Yasuaki Hiraoka

We present a geometric formulation of the Multiple Kernel Learning (MKL) problem. To do so, we reinterpret the problem of learning kernel weights as searching for a kernel that maximizes the minimum (kernel) distance between two convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-03-18 John Moeller , Parasaran Raman , Avishek Saha , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Multidimensional persistence studies topological features of shapes by analyzing the lower level sets of vector-valued functions. The rank invariant completely determines the multidimensional analogue of persistent homology groups. We prove…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-08-04 Andrea Cerri , Barbara Di Fabio , Massimo Ferri , Patrizio Frosini , Claudia Landi

Artificial neural networks can learn complex, salient data features to achieve a given task. On the opposite end of the spectrum, mathematically grounded methods such as topological data analysis allow users to design analysis pipelines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Mattia G. Bergomi , Massimo Ferri , Alessandro Mella , Pietro Vertechi

Persistent topological properties of an image serve as an additional descriptor providing an insight that might not be discovered by traditional neural networks. The existing research in this area focuses primarily on efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Ekaterina Khramtsova , Guido Zuccon , Xi Wang , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh

Persistence diagrams are one of the main tools in the field of Topological Data Analysis (TDA). They contain fruitful information about the shape of data. The use of machine learning algorithms on the space of persistence diagrams proves to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Yu-Min Chung , Austin Lawson

In this paper, a class of high order numerical schemes is proposed to solve the nonlinear parabolic equations with variable coefficients. This method is based on our previous work [10] for convection-diffusion equations, which relies on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-30 Kaipeng Wang , Andrew Christlieb , Yan Jiang , Mengping Zhang

In recent years there has been noticeable interest in the study of the "shape of data". Among the many ways a "shape" could be defined, topology is the most general one, as it describes an object in terms of its connectivity structure:…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-22 Tullia Padellini , Pierpaolo Brutti

The massive amount of available data potentially used to discover patters in machine learning is a challenge for kernel based algorithms with respect to runtime and storage capacities. Local approaches might help to relieve these issues.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-21 Florian Dumpert

Persistent homology analysis provides means to capture the connectivity structure of data sets in various dimensions. On the mathematical level, by defining a metric between the objects that persistence attaches to data sets, we can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Henri Riihimäki , José Licón-Saláiz

Computational topology has recently known an important development toward data analysis, giving birth to the field of topological data analysis. Topological persistence, or persistent homology, appears as a fundamental tool in this field.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-28 Frédéric Chazal , Marc Glisse , Catherine Labruère , Bertrand Michel

An increasing amount of collected data are high-dimensional multi-way arrays (tensors), and it is crucial for efficient learning algorithms to exploit this tensorial structure as much as possible. The ever-present curse of dimensionality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Kirandeep Kour , Sergey Dolgov , Martin Stoll , Peter Benner

In recent years, various kernels have been proposed in the context of persistent homology to deal with persistence diagrams in supervised learning approaches. In this paper, we consider the idea of variably scaled kernels, for approximating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Stefano De Marchi , Federico Lot , Francesco Marchetti , Davide Poggiali

The topology of the large-scale structure of the universe contains valuable information on the underlying cosmological parameters. While persistent homology can extract this topological information, the optimal method for parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Jacky H. T. Yip , Adam Rouhiainen , Gary Shiu