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Persistent homology computes the multiscale topology of a data set by using a sequence of discrete complexes. In this paper, we propose that persistent homology may be a useful tool for studying the structure of the landscape of string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-24 Alex Cole , Gary Shiu

Roughly speaking, functional analysis is the study of vector spaces of arbitrary dimension over the field of real or complex numbers, and the continuous linear mappings between such spaces. Naturally, the notion of continuity requires a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Christoph Bock

Topological Data Analysis has grown in popularity in recent years as a way to apply tools from algebraic topology to large data sets. One of the main tools in topological data analysis is persistent homology. This paper uses undergraduate…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Cheyne Glass , Elizabeth Vidaurre

Persistent (co)homology is a central construction in topological data analysis, where it is used to quantify prominence of features in data to produce stable descriptors suitable for downstream analysis. Persistence is challenging to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Arnur Nigmetov , Dmitriy Morozov

We use the persistent homology method of topological data analysis and dimensional analysis techniques to study data of syntactic structures of world languages. We analyze relations between syntactic parameters in terms of dimensionality,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Alexander Port , Taelin Karidi , Matilde Marcolli

Graph pattern matching is often defined in terms of subgraph isomorphism, an NP-complete problem. To lower its complexity, various extensions of graph simulation have been considered instead. These extensions allow pattern matching to be…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Shuai Ma , Yang Cao , Wenfei Fan , Jinpeng Huai , Tianyu Wo

Supervised machine learning pipelines trained on features derived from persistent homology have been experimentally observed to ignore much of the information contained in a persistence diagram. Computing persistence diagrams is often the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-11 Nicole Abreu , Parker B. Edwards , Francis Motta

This paper brings together three distinct theories with the goal of quantifying shape textures with complex morphologies. Distance fields are central objects in shape representation, while topological data analysis uses algebraic topology…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Anna Song , Ka Man Yim , Anthea Monod

In this paper we examine the use of topological methods for multivariate statistics. Using persistent homology from computational algebraic topology, a random sample is used to construct estimators of persistent homology. This estimation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Peter Bubenik , Gunnar Carlsson , Peter T. Kim , Zhiming Luo

Recently many efforts have been made to incorporate persistence diagrams, one of the major tools in topological data analysis (TDA), into machine learning pipelines. To better understand the power and limitation of persistence diagrams, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Chen Cai , Yusu Wang

The stability of persistence diagrams is among the most important results in applied and computational topology. Most results in the literature phrase stability in terms of the bottleneck distance between diagrams and the $\infty$-norm of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Primoz Skraba , Katharine Turner

This paper introduces persistent homology, which is a powerful tool to characterize the shape of data using the mathematical concept of topology. We explain the fundamental idea of persistent homology from scratch using some examples. We…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Ippei Obayashi , Takenobu Nakamura , Yasuaki Hiraoka

Complex networks encountered in biology are often characterized by significant structural diversity. Whether it be differences in the three-dimensional structure of allosteric proteins, or the variation among the micro-scale structures of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-08-19 Jason W. Rocks , Andrea J. Liu , Eleni Katifori

The effectiveness of Spatio-temporal Graph Neural Networks (STGNNs) in time-series applications is often limited by their dependence on fixed, hand-crafted input graph structures. Motivated by insights from the Topological Data Analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Viet The Nguyen , Duy Anh Pham , An Thai Le , Jans Peter , Gunther Gust

Multiparameter persistent homology is a generalization of classical persistent homology, a central and widely-used methodology from topological data analysis, which takes into account density estimation and is an effective tool for data…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Inés García-Redondo , Anthea Monod , Qiquan Wang

A structural graph summary is a small graph representation that preserves structural information necessary for a given task. The summary is used instead of the original graph to complete the task faster. We introduce multi-view structural…

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Assume that a finite set of points is randomly sampled from a subspace of a metric space. Recent advances in computational topology have provided several approaches to recovering the geometric and topological properties of the underlying…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Peter Bubenik , Peter T. Kim

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

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…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Mustafa Hajij , Bei Wang , Carlos Scheidegger , Paul Rosen

Persistent homology, while ostensibly measuring changes in topology, captures multiscale geometrical information. It is a natural tool for the analysis of point patterns. In this paper we explore the statistical power of the (persistent…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Vanessa Robins , Katharine Turner