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Cycle representatives of persistent homology classes can be used to provide descriptions of topological features in data. However, the non-uniqueness of these representatives creates ambiguity and can lead to many different interpretations…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Lu Li , Connor Thompson , Gregory Henselman-Petrusek , Chad Giusti , Lori Ziegelmeier

We study the persistent homology of an Erd\H{o}s--R\'enyi random clique complex filtration on $n$ vertices. Here, each edge $e$ appears at a time $p_e \in [0,1]$ chosen uniform randomly in the interval, and the \emph{persistence} of a cycle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Ayat Ababneh , Matthew Kahle

Let $K$ be a compact, centrally-symmetric, strictly-convex region in ${\mathbb R}^3$, which is a semi-algebraic set of constant complexity, i.e. the unit ball of a corresponding metric, denoted as $\|\cdot\|_K$. Let ${\mathcal{K}}$ be a set…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Matthew J. Katz , Micha Sharir

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

Persistent homology is a popular computational tool for analyzing the topology of point clouds, such as the presence of loops or voids. However, many real-world datasets with low intrinsic dimensionality reside in an ambient space of much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Sebastian Damrich , Philipp Berens , Dmitry Kobak

Using persistent homology to guide optimization has emerged as a novel application of topological data analysis. Existing methods treat persistence calculation as a black box and backpropagate gradients only onto the simplices involved in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Arnur Nigmetov , Dmitriy Morozov

Given finite metric spaces $(X, d_X)$ and $(Y, d_Y)$, we investigate the persistent homology $PH_*(X \times Y)$ of the Cartesian product $X \times Y$ equipped with the sum metric $d_X + d_Y$. Interpreting persistent homology as a module…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Gunnar Carlsson , Benjamin Filippenko

In this paper we present several algorithms related with the computation of the homology of groups, from a geometric perspective (that is to say, carrying out the calculations by means of simplicial sets and using techniques of Algebraic…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2013-03-06 Ana Romero , Julio Rubio

This article introduces an algorithm to compute the persistent homology of a filtered complex with various coefficient fields in a single matrix reduction. The algorithm is output-sensitive in the total number of distinct persistent…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Jean-Daniel Boissonnat , Clément Maria

Topological data analysis can extract effective information from higher-dimensional data. Its mathematical basis is persistent homology. The persistent homology can calculate topological features at different spatiotemporal scales of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-09-29 Dinghua Shi , Zhifeng Chen , Chuang Ma , Guanrong Chen

Magnitude homology is an emerging framework that captures the intrinsic topological and geometric features of metric spaces, demonstrating significant potential for topoplogical data analysis and geometric data analysis. This work…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Wanying Bi , Hongsong Feng , Jingyan Li , Jie Wu

Let $K$ be a simplicial complex and $g$ the rank of its $p$-th homology group $H_p(K)$ defined with $Z_2$ coefficients. We show that we can compute a basis $H$ of $H_p(K)$ and annotate each $p$-simplex of $K$ with a binary vector of length…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-05-22 Oleksiy Busaryev , Sergio Cabello , Chao Chen , Tamal K. Dey , Yusu Wang

Persistent homology is a popular and powerful tool for capturing topological features of data. Advances in algorithms for computing persistent homology have reduced the computation time drastically -- as long as the algorithm does not…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-10-03 Ulrich Bauer , Michael Kerber , Jan Reininghaus

For a fixed dimension $k\ge 1$, let us consider the randomly growing simplical complex on the vertex set $\{1,2,\dots,n\}$ defined as follows: We start with the empty complex, and for each $k+1$-element subset $\sigma$ of $\{1,2,\dots,n\}$,…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-25 András Mészáros

Algorithms for persistent homology and zigzag persistent homology are well-studied for persistence modules where homomorphisms are induced by inclusion maps. In this paper, we propose a practical algorithm for computing persistence under…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-03-26 Tamal K. Dey , Fengtao Fan , Yusu Wang

Persistent homology is a popular and useful tool for analysing finite metric spaces, revealing features that can be used to distinguish sets of unlabeled points and as input into machine learning pipelines. The famous stability theorem of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Philip Smith , Vitaliy Kurlin

Topological data analysis and its main method, persistent homology, provide a toolkit for computing topological information of high-dimensional and noisy data sets. Kernels for one-parameter persistent homology have been established to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-06 René Corbet , Ulderico Fugacci , Michael Kerber , Claudia Landi , Bei Wang

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

The classical persistence algorithm computes the unique decomposition of a persistence module implicitly given by an input simplicial filtration. Based on matrix reduction, this algorithm is a cornerstone of the emergent area of topological…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Tamal K. Dey , Cheng Xin

Given a set P of n points and a constant k, we are interested in computing the persistent homology of the Cech filtration of P for the k-distance, and investigate the effectiveness of dimensionality reduction for this problem, answering an…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Shreya Arya , Jean-Daniel Boissonnat , Kunal Dutta , Martin Lotz