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Graph Signal Processing deals with the problem of analyzing and processing signals defined on graphs. In this paper, we introduce a novel filtering method for graph-based signals by employing ideas from topological data analysis. We begin…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Matias de Jong van Lier , Sebastián Elías Graiff Zurita , Shizuo Kaji

In real-world systems, the relationships and connections between components are highly complex. Real systems are often described as networks, where nodes represent objects in the system and edges represent relationships or connections…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Shen Zhang

Persistent homology is a multiscale method for analyzing the shape of sets and functions from point cloud data arising from an unknown distribution supported on those sets. When the size of the sample is large, direct computation of the…

We apply topological data analysis to the behavior of C. elegans, a widely-studied model organism in biology. In particular, we use topology to produce a quantitative summary of complex behavior which may be applied to high-throughput data.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Ashleigh Thomas , Kathleen Bates , Alex Elchesen , Iryna Hartsock , Hang Lu , Peter Bubenik

Topological methods are very rarely used in structural health monitoring (SHM), or indeed in structural dynamics generally, especially when considering the structure and topology of observed data. Topological methods can provide a way of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Tristan Gowdridge , Nikolaos Dervilis , Keith Worden

Persistent homology enables fast and computable comparison of topological objects. However, it is naturally limited to the analysis of topological spaces. We extend the theory of persistence, by guaranteeing robustness and computability to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Mattia G. Bergomi , Massimo Ferri , Pietro Vertechi , Lorenzo Zuffi

Persistent Homology (PH) is a fundamental tool in computational topology, designed to uncover the intrinsic geometric and topological features of data across multiple scales. Originating within the broader framework of Topological Data…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Aurelie Jodelle Kemme , Collins Amburo Agyingi

Inferring topological and geometrical information from data can offer an alternative perspective on machine learning problems. Methods from topological data analysis, e.g., persistent homology, enable us to obtain such information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Christoph Hofer , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Andreas Uhl

Topological data analysis (TDA) provides insight into data shape. The summaries obtained by these methods are principled global descriptions of multi-dimensional data whilst exhibiting stable properties such as robustness to deformation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Ali Zia , Abdelwahed Khamis , James Nichols , Zeeshan Hayder , Vivien Rolland , Lars Petersson

Garside et al. use event history methods to analyze topological data. We provide additional background on persistent homology to contrast the hazard estimators used by Garside et al. with traditional approaches in topological data analysis.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-18 Peter Bubenik

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

This paper is a cursory study on how topological features are preserved within the internal representations of neural network layers. Using techniques from topological data analysis, namely persistent homology, the topological features of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Archie Shahidullah

The predictions of mean-field electrodynamics can now be probed using direct numerical simulations of random flows and magnetic fields. When modelling astrophysical MHD, it is important to verify that such simulations are in agreement with…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-09-12 Irina Makarenko , Paul Bushby , Andrew Fletcher , Robin Henderson , Nikolay Makarenko , Anvar Shukurov

In this paper, we apply persistent entropy, a novel topological statistic, for characterization of images of epithelial tissues. We have found out that persistent entropy is able to summarize topological and geometric information encoded by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-19 N. Atienza , L. M. Escudero , M. J. Jimenez , M. Soriano-Trigueros

Topology identification and inference of processes evolving over graphs arise in timely applications involving brain, transportation, financial, power, as well as social and information networks. This chapter provides an overview of graph…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Gonzalo Mateos , Yanning Shen , Georgios B. Giannakis , Ananthram Swami

We propose a novel method for topological analysis of unweighted graphs which is based on \textit{persistent homology}. The proposed method maps the input graph to a complete weighted graph where the weighting function maps each edge to a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Padraig Corcoran

The utilization of statistical methods an their applications within the new field of study known as Topological Data Analysis has has tremendous potential for broadening our exploration and understanding of complex, high-dimensional data…

Applications · Statistics 2016-07-19 Patrick S. Medina , R. W. Doerge

Persistent homology is a common technique in topological data analysis providing geometrical and topological information about the sample space. All this information, known as topological features, is summarized in persistence diagrams, and…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-05 Asael Fabian Martínez

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

Over the last two decades, topological data analysis (TDA) has emerged as a very powerful data analytic approach which can deal with various data modalities of varying complexities. One of the most commonly used tools in TDA is persistent…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-08 Anass El Yaagoubi Bourakna , Moo K. Chung , Hernando Ombao