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We propose a novel approach for preserving topological structures of the input space in latent representations of autoencoders. Using persistent homology, a technique from topological data analysis, we calculate topological signatures of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Michael Moor , Max Horn , Bastian Rieck , Karsten Borgwardt

Recently a new feature representation and data analysis methodology based on a topological tool called persistent homology (and its corresponding persistence diagram summary) has started to attract momentum. A series of methods have been…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Qi Zhao , Yusu Wang

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a rising branch in modern applied mathematics. It extracts topological structures as features of a given space and uses these features to analyze digital data. Persistent homology, one of the central tools…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Chuan-Shen Hu

Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in the application of persistent homology, a topological tool for data analysis, to machine learning problems. Persistent homology is known for its ability to numerically characterize the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Jen-Yu Liu , Shyh-Kang Jeng , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Persistent homology (PH) provides topological descriptors for geometric data, such as weighted graphs, which are interpretable, stable to perturbations, and invariant under, e.g., relabeling. Most applications of PH focus on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 David Loiseaux , Luis Scoccola , Mathieu Carrière , Magnus Bakke Botnan , Steve Oudot

We combine standard persistent homology with image persistent homology to define a novel way of characterizing shapes and interactions between them. In particular, we introduce: (1) a mixup barcode, which captures geometric-topological…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Hubert Wagner , Nickolas Arustamyan , Matthew Wheeler , Peter Bubenik

Persistent homology is a multiscale method for analyzing the shape of sets and functions from point cloud data arising from an unknown distribution supported on those sets. When the size of the sample is large, direct computation of the…

Attempts to incorporate topological information in supervised learning tasks have resulted in the creation of several techniques for vectorizing persistent homology barcodes. In this paper, we study thirteen such methods. Besides describing…

Persistent homology is a popular tool in Topological Data Analysis. It provides numerical characteristics of data sets which reflect global geometric properties. In order to be useful in practice, for example for feature generation in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Boris Goldfarb

Persistent homology is a powerful mathematical tool that summarizes useful information about the shape of data allowing one to detect persistent topological features while one adjusts the resolution. However, the computation of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Bernardo Ameneyro , Vasileios Maroulas , George Siopsis

We propose a novel method for topological analysis of unweighted graphs which is based on \textit{persistent homology}. The proposed method maps the input graph to a complete weighted graph where the weighting function maps each edge to a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Padraig Corcoran

Graphs are a basic tool for the representation of modern data. The richness of the topological information contained in a graph goes far beyond its mere interpretation as a one-dimensional simplicial complex. We show how topological…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-11 Mattia G. Bergomi , Massimo Ferri , Lorenzo Zuffi

We provide a naturally isomorphic description of the persistence map from merge trees to barcodes in terms of a monotone map from the partition lattice to the subset lattice. Our description is local, which offers the potential to speed up…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Brendan Mallery , Adélie Garin , Justin Curry

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

Representation learning on graphs is a fundamental problem that can be crucial in various tasks. Graph neural networks, the dominant approach for graph representation learning, are limited in their representation power. Therefore, it can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Zuoyu Yan , Qi Zhao , Ze Ye , Tengfei Ma , Liangcai Gao , Zhi Tang , Yusu Wang , Chao Chen

The machinery of topological data analysis becomes increasingly popular in a broad range of machine learning tasks, ranging from anomaly detection and manifold learning to graph classification. Persistent homology is one of the key…

In this paper, we consider topological featurizations of data defined over simplicial complexes, like images and labeled graphs, obtained by convolving this data with various filters before computing persistence. Viewing a convolution…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Elchanan Solomon , Paul Bendich

Persistent homology enables fast and computable comparison of topological objects. However, it is naturally limited to the analysis of topological spaces. We extend the theory of persistence, by guaranteeing robustness and computability to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Mattia G. Bergomi , Massimo Ferri , Pietro Vertechi , Lorenzo Zuffi

Persistent homology is a technique recently developed in algebraic and computational topology well-suited to analysing structure in complex, high-dimensional data. In this paper, we exposit the theory of persistent homology from first…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-30 Matthew Pietrosanu

This work presents a new method to quantify connectivity in transportation networks. Inspired by the field of topological data analysis, we propose a novel approach to explore the robustness of road network connectivity in the presence of…