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Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a rigorous framework that borrows techniques from geometric and algebraic topology, category theory, and combinatorics in order to study the "shape" of such complex high-dimensional data. Research in this…

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Symbolic data analysis has been proposed as a technique for summarising large and complex datasets into a much smaller and tractable number of distributions -- such as random rectangles or histograms -- each describing a portion of the…

Computation · Statistics 2020-03-23 Thomas Whitaker , Boris Beranger , Scott A. Sisson

The surge of data available on the Internet has driven the adoption of a wide range of computational methods for analyzing and extracting insights from large-scale data. Among these, Machine Learning (ML) has become a central paradigm,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Adaku Uchendu , Thai Le

We propose a method for learning and sampling from probability distributions supported on the simplex. Our approach maps the open simplex to Euclidean space via smooth bijections, leveraging the Aitchison geometry to define the mappings,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Bernardo Williams , Victor M. Yeom-Song , Marcelo Hartmann , Arto Klami

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

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is the collection of mathematical tools that capture the structure of shapes in data. Despite computational topology and computational geometry, the utilization of TDA in time series and signal processing is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Shafie Gholizadeh , Wlodek Zadrozny

The structure of real-world networks is usually difficult to characterize owing to the variation of topological scales, the nondyadic complex interactions, and the fluctuations in the network. We aim to address these problems by introducing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Quoc Hoan Tran , Van Tuan Vo , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

We use methods from topological data analysis to study the topological features of certain distributions of string vacua. Topological data analysis is a multi-scale approach used to analyze the topological features of a dataset by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Michele Cirafici

In topological data analysis, we want to discern topological and geometric structure of data, and to understand whether or not certain features of data are significant as opposed to simply random noise. While progress has been made on…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-01-10 So Mang Han , Taylor Okonek , Nikesh Yadav , Xiaojun Zheng

Almost all statistical and machine learning methods in analyzing brain networks rely on distances and loss functions, which are mostly Euclidean or matrix norms. The Euclidean or matrix distances may fail to capture underlying subtle…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Moo K. Chung , Alexander Smith , Gary Shiu

Word embeddings represent language vocabularies as clouds of $d$-dimensional points. We investigate how information is conveyed by the general shape of these clouds, instead of representing the semantic meaning of each token. Specifically,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Ondřej Draganov , Steven Skiena

Empirically, Deep Learning (DL) has demonstrated unprecedented success in practical applications. However, DL remains by and large a mysterious "black-box", spurring recent theoretical research to build its mathematical foundations. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jwo-Yuh Wu , Liang-Chi Huang , Wen-Hsuan Li , Chun-Hung Liu

In this paper we present a thorough analysis of the nature of news in different mediums across the ages, introducing a unique mathematical model to fit the characteristics of information spread. This model enhances the information diffusion…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-23 James Flamino , Alexander Norman , Madison Wyatt

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a tool from data science and mathematics that is beginning to make waves in environmental science. In this work, we seek to provide an intuitive and understandable introduction to a tool from TDA that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Lander Ver Hoef , Henry Adams , Emily J. King , Imme Ebert-Uphoff

In information theory, the link between continuous information and discrete information is established through well-known sampling theorems. Sampling theory explains, for example, how frequency-filtered music signals are reconstructible…

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Although random cell complexes occur throughout the physical sciences, there does not appear to be a standard way to quantify their statistical similarities and differences. The various proposals in the literature are usually motivated by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Benjamin Schweinhart , Jeremy Mason , Robert MacPherson

Topology identification and inference of processes evolving over graphs arise in timely applications involving brain, transportation, financial, power, as well as social and information networks. This chapter provides an overview of graph…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Gonzalo Mateos , Yanning Shen , Georgios B. Giannakis , Ananthram Swami

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

An understanding of the economic landscape in a world of ever increasing data necessitates representations of data that can inform policy, deepen understanding and guide future research. Topological Data Analysis offers a set of tools which…

Econometrics · Economics 2019-11-26 Pawel Dlotko , Simon Rudkin , Wanling Qiu

Topological data analysis provides a multiscale description of the geometry and topology of quantitative data. The persistence landscape is a topological summary that can be easily combined with tools from statistics and machine learning.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Peter Bubenik , Pawel Dlotko