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Topological data analysis is an emerging area in exploratory data analysis and data mining. Its main tool, persistent homology, has become a popular technique to study the structure of complex, high-dimensional data. In this paper, we…

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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

Standard deep neural networks (DNNs) are commonly trained in an end-to-end fashion for specific tasks such as object recognition, face identification, or character recognition, among many examples. This specificity often leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Raphaël Achddou , J. Matias di Martino , Guillermo Sapiro

In many networks, vertices have hidden attributes, or types, that are correlated with the networks topology. If the topology is known but these attributes are not, and if learning the attributes is costly, we need a method for choosing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-05-25 Xiaoran Yan , Yaojia Zhu , Jean-Baptiste Rouquier , Cristopher Moore

Real data is often given as a point cloud, i.e. a finite set of points with pairwise distances between them. An important problem is to detect the topological shape of data --- for example, to approximate a point cloud by a low-dimensional…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Sara Kalisnik Verovsek , Vitaliy Kurlin , Davorin Lesnik

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are generated by sequentially performing linear and non-linear processes. Using a combination of linear and non-linear procedures is critical for generating a sufficiently deep feature space. The majority of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Yufei Hu , Nacim Belkhir , Jesus Angulo , Angela Yao , Gianni Franchi

Rigid body interactions are fundamental to numerous scientific disciplines, but remain challenging to simulate due to their abrupt nonlinear nature and sensitivity to complex, often unknown environmental factors. These challenges call for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Amaury Wei , Olga Fink

Hypergraph structure learning, which aims to learn the hypergraph structures from the observed signals to capture the intrinsic high-order relationships among the entities, becomes crucial when a hypergraph topology is not readily available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Bohan Tang , Siheng Chen , Xiaowen Dong

Topological correctness plays a critical role in many image segmentation tasks, yet most networks are trained using pixel-wise loss functions, such as Dice, neglecting topological accuracy. Existing topology-aware methods often lack robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Laurin Lux , Alexander H. Berger , Alexander Weers , Nico Stucki , Daniel Rueckert , Ulrich Bauer , Johannes C. Paetzold

The continuous effort towards topological quantum devices calls for an efficient and non-invasive method to assess the conformity of components in different topological phases. Here, we show that machine learning paves the way towards…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-01-24 Marcello D. Caio , Marco Caccin , Paul Baireuther , Timo Hyart , Michel Fruchart

This chapter explores neural networks, topological data analysis, and topological deep learning techniques, alongside statistical Bayesian methods, for processing images, time series, and graphs to maximize the potential of artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Sarah Harkins Dayton , Layal Bou Hamdan , Ioannis D. Schizas , David L. Boothe , Vasileios Maroulas

Graph embeddings play a critical role in graph representation learning, allowing machine learning models to explore and interpret graph-structured data. However, existing methods often rely on opaque, high-dimensional embeddings, limiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Astrit Tola , Funmilola Mary Taiwo , Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora , Baris Coskunuzer

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

Topological features play an essential role in ensuring geometric plausibility and structural consistency in image analysis tasks such as segmentation and skeletonization. However, integrating topology-preserving learning based on simple…

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Complex systems are difficult to study not only because they are nonlinear, multiscale, and often nonstationary, but because their scientifically relevant organization is often invisible at the level of individual components, pairwise…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-30 Mark M. Bailey

With the widespread use of information technologies, information networks are becoming increasingly popular to capture complex relationships across various disciplines, such as social networks, citation networks, telecommunication networks,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Daokun Zhang , Jie Yin , Xingquan Zhu , Chengqi Zhang

The sequential data observed in earth science can be regarded as paths in multidimensional space. To read the path effectively, it is useful to convert it into a sequence of numbers called the signature, which can faithfully describe the…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-04-05 Nozomi Sugiura

Topological data analysis combines machine learning with methods from algebraic topology. Persistent homology, a method to characterize topological features occurring in data at multiple scales is of particular interest. A major obstacle to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-04-25 Nello Blaser , Morten Brun

The application of network techniques to the analysis of neural data has greatly improved our ability to quantify and describe these rich interacting systems. Among many important contributions, networks have proven useful in identifying…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-14 Ann E. Sizemore , Jennifer Phillips-Cremins , Robert Ghrist , Danielle S. Bassett

Geometric trees are characterized by their tree-structured layout and spatially constrained nodes and edges, which significantly impacts their topological attributes. This inherent hierarchical structure plays a crucial role in domains such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Zheng Zhang , Allen Zhang , Ruth Nelson , Giorgio Ascoli , Liang Zhao