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Persistent homology is a cornerstone of topological data analysis, offering a multiscale summary of topology with robustness to nuisance transformations, such as rotations and small deformations. Persistent homology has seen broad use…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-19 Zitian Wu , Arkaprava Roy , Leo L. Duan

Computational topologists recently developed a method, called persistent homology to analyze data presented in terms of similarity or dissimilarity. Indeed, persistent homology studies the evolution of topological features in terms of a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-08-01 Pavel Petrov , Stephen T Rush , Zhichun Zhai , Christine H Lee , Peter T Kim , Giseon Heo

Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in the application of persistent homology, a topological tool for data analysis, to machine learning problems. Persistent homology is known for its ability to numerically characterize the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Jen-Yu Liu , Shyh-Kang Jeng , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Point cloud completion seeks to recover geometrically consistent shapes from partial or sparse 3D observations. Although recent methods have achieved reasonable global shape reconstruction, they often rely on Euclidean proximity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Jianan Sun , Dongzhihan Wang , Mingyu Fan

Topological data analysis can reveal higher-order structure beyond pairwise connections between vertices in complex networks. We present a new method based on discrete Morse theory to study topological properties of unweighted and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Harish Kannan , Emil Saucan , Indrava Roy , Areejit Samal

We propose PLLay, a novel topological layer for general deep learning models based on persistence landscapes, in which we can efficiently exploit the underlying topological features of the input data structure. In this work, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Kwangho Kim , Jisu Kim , Manzil Zaheer , Joon Sik Kim , Frederic Chazal , Larry Wasserman

Persistent homology and persistent entropy have recently become useful tools for patter recognition. In this paper, we find requirements under which persistent entropy is stable to small perturbations in the input data and scale invariant.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-22 N. Atienza , R. Gonzalez-Diaz , M. Soriano-Trigueros

We introduce a framework for analyzing topological tipping in time-evolutionary point clouds by extending the recently proposed Topological Optimal Transport (TpOT) distance. While TpOT unifies geometric, homological, and higher-order…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-18 Yixin Wang , Ting Gao , Jinqiao Duan

By their nature it is difficult to differentiate chaotic dynamical systems through measurement. In recent years, work has begun on using methods of Topological Data Analysis (TDA) to qualitatively type dynamical data by approximating the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Tobias Timofeyev , Christopher Potvin , Benjamin Jones , Kristin M. Kurianski , Miguel Lopez , Sunia Tanweer

Topological data analysis uses tools from topology -- the mathematical area that studies shapes -- to create representations of data. In particular, in persistent homology, one studies one-parameter families of spaces associated with data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Guido Montúfar , Nina Otter , Yuguang Wang

We define a new topological summary for data that we call the persistence landscape. Since this summary lies in a vector space, it is easy to combine with tools from statistics and machine learning, in contrast to the standard topological…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Peter Bubenik

This paper introduces advanced techniques of Topological Data Analysis (TDA) for unsupervised anomaly detection and customer segmentation in banking data. Using the Mapper algorithm and persistent homology, we develop unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Leonardo Aldo Alejandro Barberi , Linda Maria De Cave

Appropriately representing elements in a database so that queries may be accurately matched is a central task in information retrieval; recently, this has been achieved by embedding the graphical structure of the database into a manifold in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-10 Yueqi Cao , Athanasios Vlontzos , Luca Schmidtke , Bernhard Kainz , Anthea Monod

We develop a novel algorithm for feature extraction in time series data by leveraging tools from topological data analysis. Our algorithm provides a simple, efficient way to successfully harness topological features of the attractor of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Kwangho Kim , Jisu Kim , Alessandro Rinaldo

The surge of data available on the Internet has driven the adoption of a wide range of computational methods for analyzing and extracting insights from large-scale data. Among these, Machine Learning (ML) has become a central paradigm,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Adaku Uchendu , Thai Le

In this chapter, we discuss applications of topological data analysis (TDA) to spatial systems. We briefly review the recently proposed level-set construction of filtered simplicial complexes, and we then examine persistent homology in two…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Michelle Feng , Abigail Hickok , Mason A. Porter

We explore the evolution of daily returns of four major US stock market indices during the technology crash of 2000, and the financial crisis of 2007-2009. Our methodology is based on topological data analysis (TDA). We use persistence…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-11-22 Marian Gidea , Yuri Katz

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) can be used to detect and characterize holes in an image, such as zero-dimensional holes (connected components) or one-dimensional holes (loops). However, there is currently no widely accepted statistical…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-26 Susan Glenn , Jessi Cisewski-Kehe , Jun Zhu , William M Bement

We use topological data analysis (TDA) to study how data transforms as it passes through successive layers of a deep neural network (DNN). We compute the persistent homology of the activation data for each layer of the network and summarize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Matthew Wheeler , Jose Bouza , Peter Bubenik

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a recent and growing branch of statistics devoted to the study of the shape of the data. In this work we investigate the predictive power of TDA in the context of supervised learning. Since topological…

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