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Topological Data Analysis (TDA) has emerged as a powerful framework for extracting robust and interpretable features from noisy high-dimensional data. In the context of Social Choice Theory, where preference profiles and collective…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Athanasios Andrikopoulos , Nikolaos Sampanis

Topological data analysis (TDA) has become an attractive area for the application of quantum computing. Recent advances have uncovered many interesting connections between the two fields. On one hand, complexity theoretic results show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Nhat A. Nghiem

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

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

We provide a short introduction to the field of topological data analysis and discuss its possible relevance for the study of complex systems. Topological data analysis provides a set of tools to characterise the shape of data, in terms of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-12-05 Vsevolod Salnikov , Daniele Cassese , Renaud Lambiotte

Topological Data Analysis is a recent and fast growing field providing a set of new topological and geometric tools to infer relevant features for possibly complex data. This paper is a brief introduction, through a few selected topics, to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-26 Frédéric Chazal , Bertrand Michel

Surface roughness plays an important role in analyzing engineering surfaces. It quantifies the surface topography and can be used to determine whether the resulting surface finish is acceptable or not. Nevertheless, while several existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Melih C. Yesilli , Firas A. Khasawneh

Topological data analysis (TDA) provides a growing body of tools for computing geometric and topological information about spaces from a finite sample of points. We present a new adaptive algorithm for finding provably dense samples of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Emilie Dufresne , Parker B. Edwards , Heather A. Harrington , Jonathan D. Hauenstein

This paper introduces topological data analysis. Starting from notions of a metric space and some elementary graph theory, we take example sets of data and demonstrate some of their topological properties. We discuss simplicial complexes…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2020-04-09 Dayten Sheffar

Topological data analysis refers to approaches for systematically and reliably computing abstract ``shapes'' of complex data sets. There are various applications of topological data analysis in life and data sciences, with growing interest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Daniel Leykam , Dimitris G. Angelakis

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a rapidly developing collection of methods for studying the shape of point cloud and other data types. One popular approach, designed to be robust to noise and outliers, is to first use a smoothing…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-27 Chul Moon , Noah Giansiracusa , Nicole A. Lazar

Scientific data has been growing in both size and complexity across the modern physical, engineering, life and social sciences. Spatial structure, for example, is a hallmark of many of the most important real-world complex systems, but its…

A time-delay embedding (TDE), grounded in the framework of Takens's Theorem, provides a mechanism to represent and analyze the inherent dynamics of time-series data. Recently, topological data analysis (TDA) methods have been applied to…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-18 Sixtus Dakurah , Jessi Cisewski-Kehe

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a versatile tool that can be used to extract scientific knowledge from complex pattern formation processes. However, the physics correspondence between the features obtained from TDA and pattern dynamics…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-07-09 Yoh-ichi Mototake , Masaichiro Mizumaki , Kazue Kudo , Kenji Fukumizu

Despite the remarkable accuracies attained by machine learning classifiers to separate complex datasets in a supervised fashion, most of their operation falls short to provide an informed intuition about the structure of data, and, what is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Aina Ferrà , Gloria Cecchini , Fritz-Pere Nobbe Fisas , Carles Casacuberta , Ignasi Cos

In topological data analysis (TDA), one often studies the shape of data by constructing a filtered topological space, whose structure is then examined using persistent homology. However, a single filtered space often does not adequately…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Magnus Bakke Botnan , Michael Lesnick

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 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

Topological data analysis (TDA) detects geometric structure in biological data. However, many TDA algorithms are memory intensive and impractical for massive datasets. Here, we introduce a statistical protocol that reduces TDA's memory…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-05 Andrew J. Stier , Naichen Shi , Raed Al Kontar , Chad Giusti , Marc G. Berman

We develop a framework for analyzing multivariate time series using topological data analysis (TDA) methods. The proposed methodology involves converting the multivariate time series to point cloud data, calculating Wasserstein distances…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Chengyuan Wu , Carol Anne Hargreaves