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This paper contains an expository account of persistent homology and its usefulness for topological data analysis. An alternative foundation for level-set persistence is presented using sheaves and cosheaves.

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Seeking effective neural networks is a critical and practical field in deep learning. Besides designing the depth, type of convolution, normalization, and nonlinearities, the topological connectivity of neural networks is also important.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Kun Yuan , Quanquan Li , Jing Shao , Junjie Yan

The field of mathematical morphology offers well-studied techniques for image processing. In this work, we view morphological operations through the lens of persistent homology, a tool at the heart of the field of topological data analysis.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yu-Min Chung , Sarah Day , Chuan-Shen Hu

Complex prediction models such as deep learning are the output from fitting machine learning, neural networks, or AI models to a set of training data. These are now standard tools in science. A key challenge with the current generation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Meng Liu , Tamal K. Dey , David F. Gleich

High order networks are weighted hypergraphs col- lecting relationships between elements of tuples, not necessarily pairs. Valid metric distances between high order networks have been defined but they are difficult to compute when the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Weiyu Huang , Alejandro Ribeiro

In recent years, many techniques have been developed to improve the performance and efficiency of data center networks. While these techniques provide high accuracy, they are often designed using heuristics that leverage domain-specific…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Christopher Streiffer , Huan Chen , Theophilus Benson , Asim Kadav

As complex networks find applications in a growing range of disciplines, the diversity of naturally occurring and model networks being studied is exploding. The adoption of a well-developed collection of network taxonomies is a natural…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-25 Ann Sizemore , Chad Giusti , Danielle Bassett

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

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 2022-02-07 Rolando Kindelan , José Frías , Mauricio Cerda , Nancy Hitschfeld

We propose a novel approach for preserving topological structures of the input space in latent representations of autoencoders. Using persistent homology, a technique from topological data analysis, we calculate topological signatures of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Michael Moor , Max Horn , Bastian Rieck , Karsten Borgwardt

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a rising field of computational topology in which the topological structure of a data set can be observed by persistent homology. By considering a sequence of sublevel sets, one obtains a filtration that…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-17 Yu-Min Chung , William Cruse , Austin Lawson

Hypergraph data appear and are hidden in many places in the modern age. They are data structure that can be used to model many real data examples since their structures contain information about higher order relations among data points. One…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Dong Quan Ngoc Nguyen , Lin Xing , Lizhen Lin

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

Mathematical morphology is a theory and technique to collect features like geometric and topological structures in digital images. Given a target image, determining suitable morphological operations and structuring elements is a cumbersome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Yucong Shen , Xin Zhong , Frank Y. Shih

We present a machine learning approach that leverages persistent homology to classify bacterial flagellar motors into two functional states: rotated and stalled. By embedding protein structural data into a topological framework, we extract…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-19 Zakaria Lamine , Abdelatif Hafid , Mohamed Rahouti

Persistent Homology (PH) offers stable, multi-scale descriptors of intrinsic shape structure by capturing connected components, loops, and voids that persist across scales, providing invariants that complement purely geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Prachi Kudeshia , Jiju Poovvancheri , Amr Ghoneim , Dong Chen

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…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Padraig Corcoran

While conventional computer vision emphasizes pixel-level and feature-based objectives, medical image analysis of intricate biological structures necessitates explicit representation of their complex topological properties. Despite their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Yousef Yeganeh , Rui Xiao , Goktug Guvercin , Nassir Navab , Azade Farshad

Persistent topological properties of an image serve as an additional descriptor providing an insight that might not be discovered by traditional neural networks. The existing research in this area focuses primarily on efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Ekaterina Khramtsova , Guido Zuccon , Xi Wang , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh

While many approaches to make neural networks more fathomable have been proposed, they are restricted to interrogating the network with input data. Measures for characterizing and monitoring structural properties, however, have not been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Bastian Rieck , Matteo Togninalli , Christian Bock , Michael Moor , Max Horn , Thomas Gumbsch , Karsten Borgwardt