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Existing research highlights the crucial role of topological priors in image segmentation, particularly in preserving essential structures such as connectivity and genus. Accurately capturing these topological features often requires…

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Persistent homology is a natural tool for probing the topological characteristics of weighted graphs, essentially focusing on their $0$-dimensional homology. While this area has been substantially studied, we present a new approach to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Omer Bobrowski , Primoz Skraba

We introduce persistence matching diagrams induced by set mappings of metric spaces, based on 0-persistent homology of Vietoris-Rips filtrations. Also, we present a geometric definition of the persistence matching diagram that is more…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Alvaro Torras-Casas , Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz

In this paper, we introduce the persistence transformation, a novel methodology in Topological Data Analysis (TDA) for applications in time series data which can be obtained in various areas such as science, politics, economy, healthcare,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-31 Gideon Klaila , Anastasios Stefanou , Lena Ranke

This article introduces an algorithm to compute the persistent homology of a filtered complex with various coefficient fields in a single matrix reduction. The algorithm is output-sensitive in the total number of distinct persistent…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Jean-Daniel Boissonnat , Clément Maria

As the field of Topological Data Analysis continues to show success in theory and in applications, there has been increasing interest in using tools from this field with methods for machine learning. Using persistent homology, specifically…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Sarah Tymochko , Elizabeth Munch , Firas A. Khasawneh

Characterization of medium-range order in amorphous materials and its relation to short-range order is discussed. A new topological approach is presented here to extract a hierarchical structure of amorphous materials, which is robust…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-02-27 Takenobu Nakamura , Yasuaki Hiraoka , Akihiko Hirata , Emerson G. Escolar , Yasumasa Nishiura

We address the problem of estimating topological features from data in high dimensional Euclidean spaces under the manifold assumption. Our approach is based on the computation of persistent homology of the space of data points endowed with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-23 Ximena Fernández , Eugenio Borghini , Gabriel Mindlin , Pablo Groisman

Topological data analysis offers a rich source of valuable information to study vision problems. Yet, so far we lack a theoretically sound connection to popular kernel-based learning techniques, such as kernel SVMs or kernel PCA. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-12-24 Jan Reininghaus , Stefan Huber , Ulrich Bauer , Roland Kwitt

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a tool from data science and mathematics that is beginning to make waves in environmental science. In this work, we seek to provide an intuitive and understandable introduction to a tool from TDA that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Lander Ver Hoef , Henry Adams , Emily J. King , Imme Ebert-Uphoff

We present a new tool for data analysis: persistence discrete homology, which is well-suited to analyze filtrations of graphs. In particular, we provide a novel way of representing high-dimensional data as a filtration of graphs using…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Chris Kapulkin , Nathan Kershaw

Finding an optimal parameter of a black-box function is important for searching stable material structures and finding optimal neural network structures, and Bayesian optimization algorithms are widely used for the purpose. However, most of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Tatsuya Shiraishi , Tam Le , Hisashi Kashima , Makoto Yamada

We start with a simple introduction to topological data analysis where the most popular tool is called a persistent diagram. Briefly, a persistent diagram is a multiset of points in the plane describing the persistence of topological…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Christophe Biscio , Jesper Møller

Understanding the structure of high-dimensional data is fundamental to neuroscience and other data-intensive scientific fields. While persistent homology effectively identifies basic topological features such as "holes," it lacks the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Ekaterina S. Ivshina , Galit Anikeeva , Ling Zhou

Topological data analysis (TDA) studies the shape patterns of data. Persistent homology is a widely used method in TDA that summarizes homological features of data at multiple scales and stores them in persistence diagrams (PDs). In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-16 Theodore Papamarkou , Farzana Nasrin , Austin Lawson , Na Gong , Orlando Rios , Vasileios Maroulas

We define persistent homology groups over any set of spaces which have inclusions defined so that the corresponding directed graph between the spaces is acyclic, as well as along any subgraph of this directed graph. This method…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Erin Wolf Chambers , David Letscher

Topological data analysis, as a tool for extracting topological features and characterizing geometric shapes, has experienced significant development across diverse fields. Its key mathematical techniques include persistent homology and the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Jian Liu , Dong Chen , Guo-Wei Wei

We study the problem of learning representations with controllable connectivity properties. This is beneficial in situations when the imposed structure can be leveraged upstream. In particular, we control the connectivity of an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Christoph Hofer , Roland Kwitt , Mandar Dixit , Marc Niethammer

Topological features based on persistent homology capture high-order structural information so as to augment graph neural network methods. However, computing extended persistent homology summaries remains slow for large and dense graphs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Zuoyu Yan , Tengfei Ma , Liangcai Gao , Zhi Tang , Yusu Wang , Chao Chen

Sparse systems are usually parameterized by a tuning parameter that determines the sparsity of the system. How to choose the right tuning parameter is a fundamental and difficult problem in learning the sparse system. In this paper, by…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-01-18 Moo K. Chung , Jamie L. Hanson , Jieping Ye , Richard J. Davidson , Seth D. Pollak