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Persistent homology (PH) is a method used in topological data analysis (TDA) to study qualitative features of data that persist across multiple scales. It is robust to perturbations of input data, independent of dimensions and coordinates,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Nina Otter , Mason A. Porter , Ulrike Tillmann , Peter Grindrod , Heather A. Harrington

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…

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Kernels are a fundamental technical primitive in machine learning. In recent years, kernel-based methods such as Gaussian processes are becoming increasingly important in applications where quantifying uncertainty is of key interest. In…

Gaussian Process regression is a kernel method successfully adopted in many real-life applications. Recently, there is a growing interest on extending this method to non-Euclidean input spaces, like the one considered in this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Antonio Candelieri , Andrea Ponti , Francesco Archetti

An Important tool in the field topological data analysis is known as persistent Homology (PH) which is used to encode abstract representation of the homology of data at different resolutions in the form of persistence diagram (PD). In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Aras Asaad , Dashti Ali , Taban Majeed , Rasber Rashid

We develop a kernel projected Wasserstein distance for the two-sample test, an essential building block in statistics and machine learning: given two sets of samples, to determine whether they are from the same distribution. This method…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Jie Wang , Rui Gao , Yao Xie

Phenomenological (P-type) bifurcations are qualitative changes in stochastic dynamical systems whereby the stationary probability density function (PDF) changes its topology. The current state of the art for detecting these bifurcations…

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Accurate and efficient environment representation is crucial for robotic applications such as motion planning, manipulation, and navigation. Signed distance functions (SDFs) have emerged as a powerful representation for encoding distance to…

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Modern machine learning systems are increasingly trained on large amounts of data embedded in high-dimensional spaces. Often this is done without analyzing the structure of the dataset. In this work, we propose a framework to study the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Carlos Hurtado , Sarath Shekkizhar , Javier Ruiz-Hidalgo , Antonio Ortega

Persistent homology (PH) has recently emerged as a powerful tool for extracting topological features. Integrating PH into machine learning and deep learning models enhances topology awareness and interpretability. However, most PH methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Xinyang Chen , Amaël Broustet , Guanyuan Zeng , Cheng He , Guoting Chen

Wasserstein distance, especially among symmetric positive-definite matrices, has broad and deep influences on development of artificial intelligence (AI) and other branches of computer science. A natural idea is to describe the geometry of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Yihao Luo , Shiqiang Zhang , Yueqi Cao , Huafei Sun

This paper derives error bounds for regression in continuous time over subsets of certain types of Riemannian manifolds.The regression problem is typically driven by a nonlinear evolution law taking values on the manifold, and it is cast as…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-09-09 Nathan Powell , Jia Guo , Sai Tej Parachuri , John Burns , Boone Estes , Andrew Kurdila

Geometric representation learning in preserving the intrinsic geometric and topological properties for discrete non-Euclidean data is crucial in scientific applications. Previous research generally mapped non-Euclidean discrete data into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Zihao Chen , Wenyong Wang , Jiachen Yang , Yu Xiang

In this paper, we extend the class of kernel methods, the so-called diffusion maps (DM) and ghost point diffusion maps (GPDM), to solve the time-dependent advection-diffusion PDE on unknown smooth manifolds without and with boundaries. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-31 Qile Yan , Shixiao Willing Jiang , John Harlim

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is an approach to handle with big data by studying its shape. A main tool of TDA is the persistence diagram, and one can use it to compare data sets. One approach to learn on the similarity between two…

Applications · Statistics 2020-03-04 Sarit Agami

Persistence diagrams are objects that play a central role in topological data analysis. In the present article, we investigate the local and global geometric properties of spaces of persistence diagrams. In order to do this, we construct a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-09 Mauricio Che , Fernando Galaz-García , Luis Guijarro , Ingrid Amaranta Membrillo Solis

This paper investigates the formulation and implementation of Bayesian inverse problems to learn input parameters of partial differential equations (PDEs) defined on manifolds. Specifically, we study the inverse problem of determining the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-24 John Harlim , Daniel Sanz-Alonso , Ruiyi Yang

Partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces are fundamental to scientific computing and geometry processing. A popular approach to solving PDEs on surfaces is the finite element method (FEM), where the surface is divided into discrete…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Pranav Jain , Navami Kairanda , Peter Yichen Chen , Oded Stein

Manifold learning is a fundamental task at the core of data analysis and visualisation. It aims to capture the simple underlying structure of complex high-dimensional data by preserving pairwise dissimilarities in low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Thomas Dagès , Simon Weber , Daniel Cremers , Ron Kimmel

The Weisfeiler-Lehman graph kernels are among the most prevalent graph kernels due to their remarkable time complexity and predictive performance. Their key concept is based on an implicit comparison of neighborhood representing trees with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Till Hendrik Schulz , Tamás Horváth , Pascal Welke , Stefan Wrobel