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Simplicial homology is a classical tool that assigns a sequence of modules to a simplicial complex, providing invariants for the study of its topological properties. In this article, we introduce the notion of L-fuzzy simplicial homology, a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Javier Perera-Lago , Alvaro Torras-Casas , Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz

Hyperuniformity, the suppression of density fluctuations at large length scales, is observed across a wide variety of domains, from cosmology to condensed matter and biological systems. Although the standard definition of hyperuniformity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-07 Marco Salvalaglio , Dominic J. Skinner , Jörn Dunkel , Axel Voigt

We present a novel method to explicitly incorporate topological prior knowledge into deep learning based segmentation, which is, to our knowledge, the first work to do so. Our method uses the concept of persistent homology, a tool from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-30 James R. Clough , Ilkay Oksuz , Nicholas Byrne , Julia A. Schnabel , Andrew P. King

Classical filtrations in probability theory formalize the accumulation of information along a linear time axis: the past is unique and the present evolves into an uncertain future. In reality, however, this linearity may itself be an…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Takanori Adachi

As a generalization of the use of graphs to describe pairwise interactions, simplicial complexes can be used to model higher-order interactions between three or more objects in complex systems. There has been a recent surge in activity for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Braxton Osting , Sourabh Palande , Bei Wang

Racial segregation is a widespread social and physical phenomenon present in every city across the United States. Although prevalent nationwide, each city has a unique history of racial segregation, resulting in distinct "shapes" of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Ori Friesen , Lori Ziegelmeier

We propose a study of multipartite entanglement through persistent homology, a tool used in topological data analysis. In persistent homology, a 1-parameter filtration of simplicial complexes called persistence complex is used to reveal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Gregory A. Hamilton , Felix Leditzky

Across many scientific fields, measurements often represent the number of times an event occurs. For example, a document can be represented by word occurrence counts, neural activity by spike counts per time window, or online communication…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-21 Noga Mudrik , Adam S. Charles

The motivation of this paper is to recognize a geometric shape from a noisy sample in the form of a point cloud. Inspired by the HDBSCAN clustering algorithm, we introduce the core dissimilarity, from which we construct the core…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Nello Blaser , Morten Brun , Odin Hoff Gardaa , Lars M. Salbu

Sensor Networks are inherently complex networks, and many of their associated problems require analysis of some of their global characteristics. These are primarily affected by the topology of the network. We present in this paper, a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-07-01 Harish Chintakunta , Hamid Krim

This study details an approach for the analysis of social media collected political data through the lens of Topological Data Analysis, with a specific focus on Persistent Homology and the political processes they represent by proposing a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Isabela Rocha

We introduce topological conditions on a broad class of functionals that ensure that the persistent homology modules of their associated sublevel set filtration admit persistence diagrams, which, in particular, implies that they satisfy…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Ulrich Bauer , Anibal M. Medina-Mardones , Maximilian Schmahl

We develop a theory of persistent homology for directed simplicial complexes which detects persistent directed cycles in odd dimensions. We relate directed persistent homology to classical persistent homology, prove some stability results,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-06 David Méndez , Rubén J. Sánchez-García

Computation of the simplicial complexes of a large point cloud often relies on extracting a sample, to reduce the associated computational burden. The study considers sampling critical points of a Morse function associated to a point cloud,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Charmin Asirimath , Jayampathy Ratnayake , Chathuranga Weeraddana

We use topological data analysis to study "functional networks" that we construct from time-series data from both experimental and synthetic sources. We use persistent homology with a weight rank clique filtration to gain insights into…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-24 Bernadette J. Stolz , Heather A. Harrington , Mason A. Porter

Persistent homology is a widely used tool in Topological Data Analysis that encodes multiscale topological information as a multi-set of points in the plane called a persistence diagram. It is difficult to apply statistical theory directly…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-03 Frédéric Chazal , Brittany Terese Fasy , Fabrizio Lecci , Alessandro Rinaldo , Larry Wasserman

Topological data analysis provides a set of tools to uncover low-dimensional structure in noisy point clouds. Prominent amongst the tools is persistence homology, which summarizes birth-death times of homological features using data objects…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-05 James Matuk , Sebastian Kurtek , Karthik Bharath

Data samples collected for training machine learning models are typically assumed to be independent and identically distributed (iid). Recent research has demonstrated that this assumption can be problematic as it simplifies the manifold of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Kaixuan Zhang , Qinglong Wang , Xue Liu , C. Lee Giles

The Euler characteristic is an invariant of a topological space that in a precise sense captures its canonical notion of size, akin to the cardinality of a set. The Euler characteristic is closely related to the homology of a space, as it…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Nina Otter

Persistent homology is an important methodology in topological data analysis which adapts theory from algebraic topology to data settings. Computing persistent homology produces persistence diagrams, which have been successfully used in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-13 Yueqi Cao , Anthea Monod