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Understanding the decision-making processes of large language models is critical given their widespread applications. To achieve this, we aim to connect a formal mathematical framework - zigzag persistence from topological data analysis -…

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Persistent homology barcodes and diagrams are a cornerstone of topological data analysis that capture the "shape" of a wide range of complex data structures, such as point clouds, networks, and functions. However, their use in statistical…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Qiquan Wang , Inés García-Redondo , Pierre Faugère , Gregory Henselman-Petrusek , Anthea Monod

Recently many efforts have been made to incorporate persistence diagrams, one of the major tools in topological data analysis (TDA), into machine learning pipelines. To better understand the power and limitation of persistence diagrams, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Chen Cai , Yusu Wang

We study the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function with viability constraints. This problem originates from computational biology, where we are given a phylogenetic tree over a set of species and a directed graph, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Wolfgang Dvořák , Monika Henzinger , David P. Williamson

We study the persistent homology of both functional data on compact topological spaces and structural data presented as compact metric measure spaces. One of our goals is to define persistent homology so as to capture primarily properties…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Haibin Hang , Facundo Mémoli , Washington Mio

This article addresses structure-preserving smooth approximation of semiconcave functions. semiconcave functions are of particular interest because they naturally arise in a variety of variational problems, including {optimal feedback…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Karl Kunisch , Donato Vásquez-Varas

Hierarchical structure and repetition are prevalent in graphs originating from nature or engineering. These patterns can be represented by a class of parametric-structure graphs, which are defined by templates that generate structure by way…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Tal Ben-Nun , Lukas Gianinazzi , Torsten Hoefler , Yishai Oltchik

Persistent homology is a tool that can be employed to summarize the shape of data by quantifying homological features. When the data is an object in $\mathbb{R}^d$, the (augmented) persistent homology transform ((A)PHT) is a family of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Brittany Terese Fasy , Samuel Micka , David L. Millman , Anna Schenfisch , Lucia Williams

We characterize structures such as monotonicity, convexity, and modality in smooth regression curves using persistent homology. Persistent homology is a key tool in topological data analysis that detects higher-dimensional topological…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Satish Kumar , Subhra Sankar Dhar

Persistent homology (PH) is one of the most popular methods in Topological Data Analysis. Even though PH has been used in many different types of applications, the reasons behind its success remain elusive; in particular, it is not known…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Renata Turkeš , Guido Montúfar , Nina Otter

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

This paper presents a new approach for the visualization and analysis of the spatial variability of features of interest represented by critical points in ensemble data. Our framework, called Persistence Atlas, enables the visualization of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Guillaume Favelier , Noura Faraj , Brian Summa , Julien Tierny

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

Throughout this paper, a persistence diagram ${\cal P}$ is composed of a set $P$ of planar points (each corresponding to a topological feature) above the line $Y=X$, as well as the line $Y=X$ itself, i.e., ${\cal P}=P\cup\{(x,y)|y=x\}$.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Yuya Higashikawa , Naoki Katoh , Guohui Lin , Eiji Miyano , Suguru Tamaki , Junichi Teruyama , Binhai Zhu

In this paper, we consider topological featurizations of data defined over simplicial complexes, like images and labeled graphs, obtained by convolving this data with various filters before computing persistence. Viewing a convolution…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Elchanan Solomon , Paul Bendich

Many datasets can be viewed as a noisy sampling of an underlying space, and tools from topological data analysis can characterize this structure for the purpose of knowledge discovery. One such tool is persistent homology, which provides a…

Latent space matching, which consists of matching distributions of features in latent space, is a crucial component for tasks such as adversarial attacks and defenses, domain adaptation, and generative modelling. Metrics for probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Hiu-Tung Wong , Darrick Lee , Hong Yan

A novel approach to perform unsupervised sequential learning for functional data is proposed. Our goal is to extract reference shapes (referred to as templates) from noisy, deformed and censored realizations of curves and images. Our model…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-04-05 Florian Maire , Eric Moulines , Sidonie Lefebvre

Persistence diagrams have been widely recognized as a compact descriptor for characterizing multiscale topological features in data. When many datasets are available, statistical features embedded in those persistence diagrams can be…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-07-07 Ippei Obayashi , Yasuaki Hiraoka

We investigate the classes of functions whose minimization diagrams can be approximated efficiently in \Re^d. We present a general framework and a data-structure that can be used to approximate the minimization diagram of such functions.…

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