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Topological data analysis can reveal higher-order structure beyond pairwise connections between vertices in complex networks. We present a new method based on discrete Morse theory to study topological properties of unweighted and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Harish Kannan , Emil Saucan , Indrava Roy , Areejit Samal

Persistent homology has emerged as a popular technique for the topological simplification of big data, including biomolecular data. Multidimensional persistence bears considerable promise to bridge the gap between geometry and topology.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-12-25 Kelin Xia , Guo-Wei Wei

This paper concerns a theoretical approach that combines topological data analysis (TDA) and sheaf theory. Topological data analysis, a rising field in mathematics and computer science, concerns the shape of the data and has been proven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Chuan-Shen Hu , Yu-Min Chung

We introduce a consistent estimator for the homology (an algebraic structure representing connected components and cycles) of level sets of both density and regression functions. Our method is based on kernel estimation. We apply this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Omer Bobrowski , Sayan Mukherjee , Jonathan E. Taylor

Machine learning for point clouds has been attracting much attention, with many applications in various fields, such as shape recognition and material science. For enhancing the accuracy of such machine learning methods, it is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Naoki Nishikawa , Yuichi Ike , Kenji Yamanishi

AI-based biomarkers can infer molecular features directly from hematoxylin & eosin (H&E) slides, yet most pathology foundation models (PFMs) rely on global patch-level embeddings and overlook cell-level morphology. We present a PFM model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Jingsong Liu , Han Li , Nassir Navab , Peter J. Schüffler

This article proposes a topological method that extracts hierarchical structures of various amorphous solids. The method is based on the persistence diagram (PD), a mathematical tool for capturing shapes of multiscale data. The input to the…

Mechanistic interpretability seeks to localize model behavior to the internal components that causally realize it. Prior work has advanced activation-space localization and causal tracing, but modules that appear important in activation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Chenghao Sun , Chengsheng Zhang , Guanzheng Qin , Rui Dai , Xinmei Tian

Persistent homology (PH) is a rigorous mathematical theory that provides a robust descriptor of data in the form of persistence diagrams (PDs). PDs exhibit, however, complex structure and are difficult to integrate in today's machine…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-11 Bartosz Zieliński , Michał Lipiński , Mateusz Juda , Matthias Zeppelzauer , Paweł Dłotko

While topological data analysis has emerged as a powerful paradigm for structural inference, its foundational tools, notably persistent homology and the persistent Laplacian, are frequently insensitive to localized structural fluctuations…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Jian Liu , Hongsong Feng , Kefeng Liu

We introduce weighted atom-centered symmetry functions (wACSFs) as descriptors of a chemical system's geometry for use in the prediction of chemical properties such as enthalpies or potential energies via machine learning. The wACSFs are…

We develop an analysis pipeline for characterizing the topology of large scale structure and extracting cosmological constraints based on persistent homology. Persistent homology is a technique from topological data analysis that quantifies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-14 Matteo Biagetti , Alex Cole , Gary Shiu

We present mathematical models based on persistent homology for analyzing force distributions in particulate systems. We define three distinct chain complexes: digital, position, and interaction, motivated by different capabilities of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-02 M. Kramar , A. Goullet , L. Kondic , K. Mischaikow

The understanding of toxicity is of paramount importance to human health and environmental protection. Quantitative toxicity analysis has become a new standard in the field. This work introduces element specific persistent homology (ESPH),…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-13 Kedi Wu , Guo-Wei Wei

By their nature it is difficult to differentiate chaotic dynamical systems through measurement. In recent years, work has begun on using methods of Topological Data Analysis (TDA) to qualitatively type dynamical data by approximating the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Tobias Timofeyev , Christopher Potvin , Benjamin Jones , Kristin M. Kurianski , Miguel Lopez , Sunia Tanweer

Magnitude homology is an emerging framework that captures the intrinsic topological and geometric features of metric spaces, demonstrating significant potential for topoplogical data analysis and geometric data analysis. This work…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Wanying Bi , Hongsong Feng , Jingyan Li , Jie Wu

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

Identifying molecular signatures from complex disease patients with underlying symptomatic similarities is a significant challenge in the analysis of high dimensional multi-omics data. Topological data analysis (TDA) provides a way of…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-23 Davide Gurnari , Aldo Guzmán-Sáenz , Filippo Utro , Aritra Bose , Saugata Basu , Laxmi Parida

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

We use Topological Data Analysis tools for studying the inner organization of cells in segmented images of epithelial tissues. More specifically, for each segmented image, we compute different persistence barcodes, which codify lifetime of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 N. Atienza , M. J. Jimenez , M. Soriano-Trigueros