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In this paper we examine the use of topological methods for multivariate statistics. Using persistent homology from computational algebraic topology, a random sample is used to construct estimators of persistent homology. This estimation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Peter Bubenik , Gunnar Carlsson , Peter T. Kim , Zhiming Luo

Persistent homology is a technique recently developed in algebraic and computational topology well-suited to analysing structure in complex, high-dimensional data. In this paper, we exposit the theory of persistent homology from first…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-30 Matthew Pietrosanu

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Zuoyu Yan , Tengfei Ma , Liangcai Gao , Zhi Tang , Yusu Wang , Chao Chen

Long lived topological features are distinguished from short lived ones (considered as topological noise) in simplicial complexes constructed from complex networks. A new topological invariant, persistent homology, is determined and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Danijela Horak , Slobodan Maletic , Milan Rajkovic

Topological data analysis and its main method, persistent homology, provide a toolkit for computing topological information of high-dimensional and noisy data sets. Kernels for one-parameter persistent homology have been established to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-06 René Corbet , Ulderico Fugacci , Michael Kerber , Claudia Landi , Bei Wang

Topological Data Analysis has grown in popularity in recent years as a way to apply tools from algebraic topology to large data sets. One of the main tools in topological data analysis is persistent homology. This paper uses undergraduate…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Cheyne Glass , Elizabeth Vidaurre

Persistent homology (PH) is a recently developed theory in the field of algebraic topology to study shapes of datasets. It is an effective data analysis tool that is robust to noise and has been widely applied. We demonstrate a general…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Yu-Min Chung , Chuan-Shen Hu , Yu-Lun Lo , Hau-Tieng Wu

One of the paramount challenges in neuroscience is to understand the dynamics of individual neurons and how they give rise to network dynamics when interconnected. Historically, researchers have resorted to graph theory, statistics, and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-08 Jean-Baptiste Bardin , Gard Spreemann , Kathryn Hess

This paper presents a new clustering algorithm for space-time data based on the concepts of topological data analysis and in particular, persistent homology. Employing persistent homology - a flexible mathematical tool from algebraic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-28 Umar Islambekov , Yulia Gel

Biological and physical systems often exhibit distinct structures at different spatial/temporal scales. Persistent homology is an algebraic tool that provides a mathematical framework for analyzing the multi-scale structures frequently…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Jonathan Jaquette , Miroslav Kramár

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

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

Persistent Homology (PH) allows tracking homology features like loops, holes and their higher-dimensional analogs, along with a single-parameter family of nested spaces. Currently, computing descriptors for complex data characterized by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Sara Scaramuccia , Federico Iuricich , Leila De Floriani , Claudia Landi

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) provides tools to describe the shape of data, but integrating topological features into deep learning pipelines remains challenging, especially when preserving local geometric structure rather than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Elena Xinyi Wang , Arnur Nigmetov , Dmitriy Morozov

Characterizing the structural properties of neural networks is crucial yet poorly understood, and there are no well-established similarity measures between networks. In this work, we observe that neural networks can be represented as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 David Pérez-Fernández , Asier Gutiérrez-Fandiño , Jordi Armengol-Estapé , Marta Villegas

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…

Single-parameter persistent homology, a key tool in topological data analysis, has been widely applied to data problems along with statistical techniques that quantify the significance of the results. In contrast, statistical techniques for…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-14 Matthew Wright , Xiaojun Zheng

Persistent homology is a common technique in topological data analysis providing geometrical and topological information about the sample space. All this information, known as topological features, is summarized in persistence diagrams, and…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-05 Asael Fabian Martínez

Persistence-based topological optimization deforms a point cloud $X \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ by minimizing objectives of the form $L(X) = \ell(\mathrm{Dgm}(X))$, where $\mathrm{Dgm}(X)$ is a persistence diagram. In practice, optimization is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Abderrahim Bendahi , Alexandre Duplessis , Arnaud Fickinger

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