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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…

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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

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

The theory of multidimensional persistent homology was initially developed in the discrete setting, and involved the study of simplicial complexes filtered through an ordering of the simplices. Later, stability properties of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-03-28 Niccolò Cavazza , Marc Ethier , Patrizio Frosini , Tomasz Kaczynski , Claudia Landi

We apply nonparametric Bayesian methods to study the problem of estimating the intensity function of an inhomogeneous Poisson process. We exhibit a prior on intensities which both leads to a computationally feasible method and enjoys…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-28 Eduard Belitser , Paulo Serra , Harry van Zanten

This paper is concerned with Bayesian inferential methods for data from controlled branching processes that account for model robustness through the use of disparities. Under regularity conditions, we establish that estimators built on…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-02-19 M. González , C. Minuesa , I. del Puerto , A. N. Vidyashankar

Linear mixed-effects models are a central analytical tool for modeling hierarchical and longitudinal data, as they allow simultaneous representation of fixed and random sources of variation. In practice, inference for such models is most…

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In urgent decision making applications, ensemble simulations are an important way to determine different outcome scenarios based on currently available data. In this paper, we will analyze the output of ensemble simulations by considering…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Max Kontak , Jules Vidal , Julien Tierny

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

We introduce a general Bayesian framework for graph matching grounded in a new theory of exchangeable random permutations. Leveraging the cycle representation of permutations and the literature on exchangeable random partitions, we define,…

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Topological methods for data analysis present opportunities for enforcing certain invariances of broad interest in computer vision, including view-point in activity analysis, articulation in shape analysis, and measurement invariance in…

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Despite enormous progress in object detection and classification, the problem of incorporating expected contextual relationships among object instances into modern recognition systems remains a key challenge. In this work we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Ehsan Jahangiri , Erdem Yoruk , Rene Vidal , Laurent Younes , Donald Geman

Persistence diagrams are common objects in the field of Topological Data Analysis. They are topological summaries that capture both topological and geometric structure within data. Recently there has been a surge of interest in developing…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-07 Katharine Turner

The existence of characteristic structure, or shape, in complex data sets has been recognized as increasingly important for mathematical data analysis. This realization has motivated the development of new tools such as persistent homology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Sofya Chepushtanova , Michael Kirby , Chris Peterson , Lori Ziegelmeier

In topological data analysis, persistent homology is used to study the "shape of data". Persistent homology computations are completely characterized by a set of intervals called a bar code. It is often said that the long intervals…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Peter Bubenik , Michael Hull , Dhruv Patel , Benjamin Whittle

Topological features based on persistent homology capture high-order structural information so as to augment graph neural network methods. However, computing extended persistent homology summaries remains slow for large and dense graphs and…

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The interpretation of data in terms of multi-parameter models of new physics, using the Bayesian approach, requires the construction of multi-parameter priors. We propose a construction that uses elements of Bayesian reference analysis. Our…

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The paper discusses a simple method of using the parametric continuation method to designate complex diagrams of steady states. The main advantage of the discussed approach is the fact that it does not require the installation of huge…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Marek Berezowski

We present a parallelizable algorithm for computing the persistent homology of a filtered chain complex. Our approach differs from the commonly used reduction algorithm by first computing persistence pairs within local chunks, then…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2013-03-05 Ulrich Bauer , Michael Kerber , Jan Reininghaus

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