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We investigate combinatorial dynamical systems on simplicial complexes considered as {\em finite topological spaces}. Such systems arise in a natural way from sampling dynamics and may be used to reconstruct some features of the dynamics…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-07-12 Tamal K. Dey , Mateusz Juda , Tomasz Kapela , Jacek Kubica , Michal Lipinski , Marian Mrozek

Inferring topological and geometrical information from data can offer an alternative perspective on machine learning problems. Methods from topological data analysis, e.g., persistent homology, enable us to obtain such information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Christoph Hofer , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Andreas Uhl

Qualitative methods such as the linear sampling method and the factorization method reconstruct acoustic scatterers through sampling indicators. In practice, these indicators are gray-scale fields on a prescribed sampling window and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Xiaomei Yang , Jiaying Jia , Zhiliang Deng

In medical image analysis, feature engineering plays an important role in the design and performance of machine learning models. Persistent homology (PH), from the field of topological data analysis (TDA), demonstrates robustness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Dashti A. Ali , Richard K. G. Do , William R. Jarnagin , Aras T. Asaad , Amber L. Simpson

Convection is a well-studied topic in fluid dynamics, yet it is less understood in the context of networks flows. Here, we incorporate techniques from topological data analysis (namely, persistent homology) to automate the detection and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Minh Quang Le , Dane Taylor

Persistent homology is a tool from Topological Data Analysis (TDA) used to summarize the topology underlying data. It can be conveniently represented through persistence diagrams. Observing a noisy signal, common strategies to infer its…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Hugo Henneuse

Persistent homology is an effective method for extracting topological information, represented as persistent diagrams, of spatial structure data. Hence it is well-suited for the study of protein structures. Attempts to incorporate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-01 An Wu , Yu Pan , Fuqi Zhou , Jinghui Yan , Chuanlu Liu

This article aims to study the topological invariant properties encoded in node graph representational embeddings by utilizing tools available in persistent homology. Specifically, given a node embedding representation algorithm, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Mustafa Hajij , Ghada Zamzmi , Xuanting Cai

Zigzag persistent homology is a powerful generalisation of persistent homology that allows one not only to compute persistence diagrams with less noise and using less memory, but also to use persistence in new fields of application.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Clément Maria , Steve Oudot

Persistent homology naturally addresses the multi-scale topological characteristics of the large-scale structure as a distribution of clusters, loops, and voids. We apply this tool to the dark matter halo catalogs from the Quijote…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-31 Jacky H. T. Yip , Matteo Biagetti , Alex Cole , Karthik Viswanathan , Gary Shiu

Persistent homology studies the evolution of k-dimensional holes along a nested sequence of simplicial complexes (called a filtration). The set of bars (i.e. intervals) representing birth and death times of k-dimensional holes along such…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Nieves Atienza , Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz , Matteo Rucco

Inspired by topological data analysis techniques, we introduce persistent homology observables and apply them in a geometric analysis of the dynamics of quantum field theories. As a prototype application, we consider data from a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-09-23 Daniel Spitz , Jürgen Berges , Markus K. Oberthaler , Anna Wienhard

Persistent homology computes topological invariants from point cloud data. Recent work has focused on developing statistical methods for data analysis in this framework. We show that, in certain models, parametric inference can be performed…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-06-19 Kevin Emmett , Daniel Rosenbloom , Pablo Camara , Raul Rabadan

One of the primary areas of interest in applied algebraic topology is persistent homology, and, more specifically, the persistence diagram. Persistence diagrams have also become objects of interest in topological data analysis. However,…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-06 Eric Berry , Yen-Chi Chen , Jessi Cisewski-Kehe , Brittany Terese Fasy

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

Recently a new feature representation and data analysis methodology based on a topological tool called persistent homology (and its corresponding persistence diagram summary) has started to attract momentum. A series of methods have been…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Qi Zhao , Yusu Wang

Persistent homology tracks topological features across geometric scales, encoding birth and death of cycles as barcodes. We develop a complementary theory where the filtration parameter is algebraic precision rather than geometric scale.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Robert Ghrist , Cassie Ding

TDA (topological data analysis) is a relatively new area of research related to importing classical ideas from topology into the realm of data analysis. Under the umbrella term TDA, there falls, in particular, the notion of persistent…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Facundo Memoli , Kritika Singhal

Determining whether two graphs are isomorphic is a fundamental problem with practical applications in areas such as molecular chemistry or social network analysis, yet it remains a challenging task, with exact solutions often being…

Persistent (co)homology is a central construction in topological data analysis, where it is used to quantify prominence of features in data to produce stable descriptors suitable for downstream analysis. Persistence is challenging to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Arnur Nigmetov , Dmitriy Morozov