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We introduce a new feature map for barcodes that arise in persistent homology computation. The main idea is to first realize each barcode as a path in a convenient vector space, and to then compute its path signature which takes values in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-28 Ilya Chevyrev , Vidit Nanda , Harald Oberhauser

Topological data analysis involves the statistical characterization of the shape of data. Persistent homology is a primary tool of topological data analysis, which can be used to analyze topological features and perform statistical…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-01 Chul Moon , Nicole A. Lazar

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

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

Persistent homology has recently emerged as a powerful technique in topological data analysis for analyzing the emergence and disappearance of topological features throughout a filtered space, shown via persistence diagrams. Additionally,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-12-16 Nicholas A. Scoville , Karthik Yegnesh

New representations of tree-structured data objects, using ideas from topological data analysis, enable improved statistical analyses of a population of brain artery trees. A number of representations of each data tree arise from…

Applications · Statistics 2014-11-26 Paul Bendich , J. S. Marron , Ezra Miller , Alex Pieloch , Sean Skwerer

One of the primary areas of interest in applied algebraic topology is persistent homology, and, more specifically, the persistence diagram. Persistence diagrams have also become objects of interest in topological data analysis. However,…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-06 Eric Berry , Yen-Chi Chen , Jessi Cisewski-Kehe , Brittany Terese Fasy

Many topological data analysis (TDA) pipelines compute large collections of persistence diagrams, yet vectorizations and kernel methods discard the rank-induced implication relations among persistence intervals that are essential for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Charles Fanning , Mehmet Aktas

Understanding the response of an output variable to multi-dimensional inputs lies at the heart of many data exploration endeavours. Topology-based methods, in particular Morse theory and persistent homology, provide a useful framework for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Yarden Livnat , Dan Maljovec , Attila Gyulassy , Dr Baptiste Mouginot , Valerio Pascucci

Persistent homology has become an important tool for extracting geometric and topological features from data, whose multi-scale features are summarized in a persistence diagram. From a statistical perspective, however, persistence diagrams…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Siddharth Vishwanath , Kenji Fukumizu , Satoshi Kuriki , Bharath Sriperumbudur

We redevelop persistent homology (topological persistence) from a categorical point of view. The main objects of study are diagrams, indexed by the poset of real numbers, in some target category. The set of such diagrams has an interleaving…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Peter Bubenik , Jonathan A. Scott

Persistent topological properties of an image serve as an additional descriptor providing an insight that might not be discovered by traditional neural networks. The existing research in this area focuses primarily on efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Ekaterina Khramtsova , Guido Zuccon , Xi Wang , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh

The persistence diagram (PD) is an increasingly popular topological descriptor. By encoding the size and prominence of topological features at varying scales, the PD provides important geometric and topological information about a space.…

In topological data analysis (TDA), one often studies the shape of data by constructing a filtered topological space, whose structure is then examined using persistent homology. However, a single filtered space often does not adequately…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Magnus Bakke Botnan , Michael Lesnick

Topological data analysis is an approach to study shape of a data set by means of topology. Its main object of study is the persistence diagram, which represents the topological features of the data set at different spatial resolutions.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Azmeer Nordin , Mohd Salmi Md Noorani , Nurulkamal Masseran , Mohd Sabri Ismail , Nur Firyal Roslan

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

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

Topological data analysis (TDA) is an area of data science that focuses on using invariants from algebraic topology to provide multiscale shape descriptors for geometric data sets such as point clouds. One of the most important such…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-21 David Loiseaux , Mathieu Carrière , Andrew J. Blumberg

Persistence diagrams, the most common descriptors of Topological Data Analysis, encode topological properties of data and have already proved pivotal in many different applications of data science. However, since the (metric) space of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-10 Mathieu Carrière , Frédéric Chazal , Yuichi Ike , Théo Lacombe , Martin Royer , Yuhei Umeda

Appropriately representing elements in a database so that queries may be accurately matched is a central task in information retrieval; recently, this has been achieved by embedding the graphical structure of the database into a manifold in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-10 Yueqi Cao , Athanasios Vlontzos , Luca Schmidtke , Bernhard Kainz , Anthea Monod