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This paper introduces persistent homology, which is a powerful tool to characterize the shape of data using the mathematical concept of topology. We explain the fundamental idea of persistent homology from scratch using some examples. We…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Ippei Obayashi , Takenobu Nakamura , Yasuaki Hiraoka

In this work, we present a generalization of extended persistent homology to filtrations of graded sub-groups by defining relative homology in this setting. Our work provides a more comprehensive and flexible approach to get an algebraic…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Fang Sun , Shengwen Xie , Xuezhi Zhao

In this paper we introduce a statistic, the persistent homology transform (PHT), to model surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ and shapes in $\mathbb{R}^2$. This statistic is a collection of persistence diagrams - multiscale topological summaries…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-16 Katharine Turner , Sayan Mukherjee , Doug M Boyer

We study distributions of persistent homology barcodes associated to taking subsamples of a fixed size from metric measure spaces. We show that such distributions provide robust invariants of metric measure spaces, and illustrate their use…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-01-20 Andrew J. Blumberg , Itamar Gal , Michael A. Mandell , Matthew Pancia

Persistent homology, a powerful mathematical tool for data analysis, summarizes the shape of data through tracking topological features across changes in different scales. Classical algorithms for persistent homology are often constrained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Bernardo Ameneyro , George Siopsis , Vasileios Maroulas

Persistence homology is a tool used to measure topological features that are present in data sets and functions. Persistence pairs births and deaths of these features as we iterate through the sublevel sets of the data or function of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-02-10 Brittany Terese Fasy

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

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

In this paper we propose a computationally efficient multiple hypothesis testing procedure for persistent homology. The computational efficiency of our procedure is based on the observation that one can empirically simulate a null…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson , Sayan Mukherjee

Machine learning for point clouds has been attracting much attention, with many applications in various fields, such as shape recognition and material science. For enhancing the accuracy of such machine learning methods, it is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Naoki Nishikawa , Yuichi Ike , Kenji Yamanishi

This article studies the robust version of persistent homology based on trimming methodology to capture the geometric feature through support of the data in presence of outliers. Precisely speaking, the proposed methodology works when the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-01 Tuhin Subhra Mahato , Subhra Sankar Dhar

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

In many applications concerning the comparison of data expressed by $\mathbb{R}^m$-valued functions defined on a topological space $X$, the invariance with respect to a given group $G$ of self-homeomorphisms of $X$ is required. While…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-29 Patrizio Frosini , Grzegorz Jablonski

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

Hyperuniformity, the suppression of density fluctuations at large length scales, is observed across a wide variety of domains, from cosmology to condensed matter and biological systems. Although the standard definition of hyperuniformity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-07 Marco Salvalaglio , Dominic J. Skinner , Jörn Dunkel , Axel Voigt

Persistent homology (PH) is one of the most popular methods in Topological Data Analysis. Even though PH has been used in many different types of applications, the reasons behind its success remain elusive; in particular, it is not known…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Renata Turkeš , Guido Montúfar , Nina Otter

Persistent homology has been widely used to discover hidden topological structures in data across various applications, including music data. To apply persistent homology, a distance or metric must be defined between points in a point cloud…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Eunwoo Heo , Byeongchan Choi , Myung ock Kim , Mai Lan Tran , Jae-Hun Jung

Persistent Homology (PH) offers stable, multi-scale descriptors of intrinsic shape structure by capturing connected components, loops, and voids that persist across scales, providing invariants that complement purely geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Prachi Kudeshia , Jiju Poovvancheri , Amr Ghoneim , Dong Chen

We consider the problem of hypotheses testing with the basic simple hypothesis: observed sequence of points corresponds to stationary Poisson process with known intensity against a composite one-sided parametric alternative that this is a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Serguei Dachian , Yury A. Kutoyants

Persistent homology analysis, a recently developed computational method in algebraic topology, is applied to the study of the phase transitions undergone by the so-called XY-mean field model and by the phi^4 lattice model, respectively. For…