English
Related papers

Related papers: Computational Complexity of the Interleaving Dista…

200 papers

Classification of large and dense networks based on topology is very difficult due to the computational challenges of extracting meaningful topological features from real-world networks. In this paper we present a computationally tractable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Tananun Songdechakraiwut , Bryan M. Krause , Matthew I. Banks , Kirill V. Nourski , Barry D. Van Veen

As well-known, inner functions play an important role in the study of bounded analytic function theory. In recent years, persistence module theory, as a main tool applied to Topological Data Analysis, has received widespread attention. In…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Jiaxing He , Bingzhe Hou , Xiao Wang , Yue Xin

Monadically stable and monadically NIP classes of structures were initially studied in the context of model theory and defined in logical terms. They have recently attracted attention in the area of structural graph theory, as they…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Jan Dreier , Nikolas Mählmann , Sebastian Siebertz , Szymon Toruńczyk

Techniques from topological data analysis (TDA) have proven effective in studying time-dependent data arising in dynamic systems, such as animal swarming behavior and spatiotemporal patterns in neuroscience. While early algorithms leveraged…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Nadezhda Belova , Maxwell Goldberg , Facundo Memoli , Sriram Raghunath , Andrew Xie

Important data mining problems such as nearest-neighbor search and clustering admit theoretical guarantees when restricted to objects embedded in a metric space. Graphs are ubiquitous, and clustering and classification over graphs arise in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Jose Bento , Stratis Ioannidis

Techniques from computational topology, in particular persistent homology, are becoming increasingly relevant for data analysis. Their stable metrics permit the use of many distance-based data analysis methods, such as multidimensional…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-20 Bastian Rieck , Filip Sadlo , Heike Leitte

This paper presents a generalization of the Wasserstein distance for both persistence diagrams and merge trees [20], [66] that takes advantage of the regions of their topological features in the input domain. Specifically, we redefine the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Mathieu Pont , Christoph Garth

We introduce persistence with an emphasis on its algebraic foundations, using the representation theory of posets. Linear representations of posets arise in several areas of mathematics, including the representation theory of quivers and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Ulrich Bauer , Thomas Brüstle , Luis Scoccola

One of the main challenges in Computational Biology is to find the evolutionary distance between two organisms. In the field of comparative genomics, one way to estimate such distance is to find a minimum cost sequence of rearrangements…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Alexsandro Oliveira Alexandrino , Andre Rodrigues Oliveira , Ulisses Dias , Zanoni Dias

Motivated both by theoretical and practical considerations in topological data analysis, we generalize the $p$-Wasserstein distance on barcodes to multiparameter persistence modules. For each $p\in [1,\infty]$, we in fact introduce two such…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Håvard Bakke Bjerkevik , Michael Lesnick

The theory of multidimensional persistent homology was initially developed in the discrete setting, and involved the study of simplicial complexes filtered through an ordering of the simplices. Later, stability properties of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-03-28 Niccolò Cavazza , Marc Ethier , Patrizio Frosini , Tomasz Kaczynski , Claudia Landi

A geometric graph is a combinatorial graph, endowed with a geometry that is inherited from its embedding in a Euclidean space. Formulation of a meaningful measure of (dis-)similarity in both the combinatorial and geometric structures of two…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Sushovan Majhi , Carola Wenk

We introduce a topology on the space of all isomorphism types represented in a given class of countable models, and use this topology as an aid in classifying the isomorphism types. This mixes ideas from effective descriptive set theory and…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Russell Miller

We develop persistent homology in the setting of filtrations of (Cech) closure spaces. Examples of filtrations of closure spaces include metric spaces, weighted graphs, weighted directed graphs, and filtrations of topological spaces. We use…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Peter Bubenik , Nikola Milićević

Codes over permutations under the infinity norm have been recently suggested as a coding scheme for correcting limited-magnitude errors in the rank modulation scheme. Given such a code, we show that a simple relabeling operation, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-20 Itzhak Tamo , Moshe Schwartz

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

Exterior powers play important roles in persistent homology in computational geometry. In the present paper we study the problem of extracting the $K$ longest intervals of the exterior-power layers of a tame persistence module. We prove a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Yoshihiro Maruyama

We investigate the computational complexity of computing the Hausdorff distance. Specifically, we show that the decision problem of whether the Hausdorff distance of two semi-algebraic sets is bounded by a given threshold is complete for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Paul Jungeblut , Linda Kleist , Tillmann Miltzow

The minimum distance is one of the most important combinatorial characterizations of a code. The maximum likelihood decoding problem is one of the most important algorithmic problems of a code. While these problems are known to be hard for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Qi Cheng

This work incorporates topological features via persistence diagrams to classify point cloud data arising from materials science. Persistence diagrams are multisets summarizing the connectedness and holes of given data. A new distance on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-11 Vasileios Maroulas , Cassie Putman Micucci , Adam Spannaus