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Persistent homology, a technique from computational topology, has recently shown strong empirical performance in the context of graph classification. Being able to capture long range graph properties via higher-order topological features,…

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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…

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Topology applied to real world data using persistent homology has started to find applications within machine learning, including deep learning. We present a differentiable topology layer that computes persistent homology based on level set…

Data quality is crucial for the successful training, generalization and performance of machine learning models. We propose to measure the quality of a subset concerning the dataset it represents, using topological data analysis techniques.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Álvaro Torras-Casas , Eduardo Paluzo-Hidalgo , Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is an emergent field that aims to discover topological information hidden in a dataset. TDA tools have been commonly used to create filters and topological descriptors to improve Machine Learning (ML)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Rolando Kindelan , José Frías , Mauricio Cerda , Nancy Hitschfeld

Ball Mapper is an widely used tool in topological data analysis for summarizing the structure of high-dimensional data through metric-based coverings and graph representations. A central computational bottleneck in Ball Mapper is the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jay-Anne Bulauan , John Rick Manzanares

Time series are ubiquitous in our data rich world. In what follows I will describe how ideas from dynamical systems and topological data analysis can be combined to gain insights from time-varying data. We will see several applications to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Jose A. Perea

Recently, there has been an explosion in statistical learning literature to represent data using topological principles to capture structure and relationships. We propose a topological data analysis (TDA)-based framework, named Topological…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-10 Jordan Eckert , Elvan Ceyhan , Henry Schenck

We use topological data analysis and machine learning to study a seminal model of collective motion in biology [D'Orsogna et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 (2006)]. This model describes agents interacting nonlinearly via attractive-repulsive…

With the increasing use of black-box Machine Learning (ML) techniques in critical applications, there is a growing demand for methods that can provide transparency and accountability for model predictions. As a result, a large number of…

We establish a new theory which gives a unified topological approach to data science, by being applicable both to point cloud data and to graph data, including networks beyond pairwise interactions. We generalize simplicial complexes and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-04-01 Jelena Grbić , Jie Wu , Kelin Xia , Guo-Wei Wei

The concept of $typed$ $topology$ is introduced. In a typed topological space, some open sets are assigned "types", and topological concepts such as closure, connectedness can be defined using types. A finite data set in $R^2$ is a…

General Topology · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Wanjun Hu

Geometric, topological and graph theory modeling and analysis of biomolecules are of essential importance in the conceptualization of molecular structure, function, dynamics, and transport. On the one hand, geometric modeling provides…

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The study of topology is strictly speaking, a topic in pure mathematics. However in only a few years, Topological Data Analysis (TDA), which refers to methods of utilizing topological features in data (such as connected components, tunnels,…

Applications · Statistics 2019-09-25 Nalini Ravishanker , Renjie Chen

Large language models (LLMs) produce high-dimensional embeddings that capture rich semantic and syntactic relationships between words, sentences, and concepts. Investigating the topological structures of LLM embedding spaces via mapper…

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We study the use of the Euler characteristic for multiparameter topological data analysis. Euler characteristic is a classical, well-understood topological invariant that has appeared in numerous applications, including in the context of…

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Classical unsupervised learning methods like clustering and linear dimensionality reduction parametrize large-scale geometry when it is discrete or linear, while more modern methods from manifold learning find low dimensional representation…

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Traditional machine learning (ML) algorithms, such as multiple regression, require human analysts to make decisions on how to treat the data. These decisions can make the model building process subjective and difficult to replicate for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 William Franz Lamberti

In artificial-intelligence-aided signal processing, existing deep learning models often exhibit a black-box structure, and their validity and comprehensibility remain elusive. The integration of topological methods, despite its relatively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Pingyao Feng , Siheng Yi , Qingrui Qu , Zhiwang Yu , Yifei Zhu

Persistent homology is a mathematical tool used for studying the shape of data by extracting its topological features. It has gained popularity in network science due to its applicability in various network mining problems, including…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Mehmet Emin Aktas , Thu Nguyen , Rakin Riza , Muhammad Ifte Islam , Esra Akbas