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A topological approach to stratification learning is developed for point cloud data drawn from a stratified space. Given such data, our objective is to infer which points belong to the same strata. First we define a multi-scale notion of a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-08-24 Paul Bendich , Sayan Mukherjee , Bei Wang

Predictive geometric models deliver excellent results for many Machine Learning use cases. Despite their undoubted performance, neural predictive algorithms can show unexpected degrees of instability and variance, particularly when applied…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Michaela Regneri , Malte Hoffmann , Jurij Kost , Niklas Pietsch , Timo Schulz , Sabine Stamm

Topological invariants have played a fundamental role in the advancement of theoretical high energy physics. Physicists have used several kinematic techniques to distinguish new physics predictions from the Standard Model (SM) of particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-18 Jyotiranjan Beuria

We apply persistent homology, the main method in topological data analysis, to the study of demographic data. Persistence diagrams efficiently summarize information about clusters or peaks in a region's demographic data. To illustrate how…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Jakini A. Kauba , Thomas Weighill

An important problem in the field of Topological Data Analysis is defining topological summaries which can be combined with traditional data analytic tools. In recent work Bubenik introduced the persistence landscape, a stable…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Oliver Vipond

We redevelop persistent homology (topological persistence) from a categorical point of view. The main objects of study are diagrams, indexed by the poset of real numbers, in some target category. The set of such diagrams has an interleaving…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Peter Bubenik , Jonathan A. Scott

We study the grokking phenomenon through the lens of topology. Using persistent homology on point clouds derived from the embedding matrices of a range of models trained on modular arithmetic with varying primes, we identify a clear and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yifan Tang , Qiquan Wang , Inés García-Redondo , Anthea Monod

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 most practical applications of reinforcement learning, it is untenable to maintain direct estimates for individual states; in continuous-state systems, it is impossible. Instead, researchers often leverage state similarity (whether…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Charline Le Lan , Marc G. Bellemare , Pablo Samuel Castro

The topology of the large-scale structure of the universe contains valuable information on the underlying cosmological parameters. While persistent homology can extract this topological information, the optimal method for parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Jacky H. T. Yip , Adam Rouhiainen , Gary Shiu

Determination of the nature of the dynamical state of a system as a function of its parameters is an important problem in the study of dynamical systems. This problem becomes harder in experimental systems where the obtained data is…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-29 Rishab Antosh , Sanjit Das , N. Nirmal Thyagu

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

Topological data analysis can extract effective information from higher-dimensional data. Its mathematical basis is persistent homology. The persistent homology can calculate topological features at different spatiotemporal scales of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-09-29 Dinghua Shi , Zhifeng Chen , Chuang Ma , Guanrong Chen

To analyze the topological properties of the given discrete data, one needs to consider a continuous transform called filtration. Persistent homology serves as a tool to track changes of homology in the filtration. The outcome of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Keunsu Kim , Jae-Hun Jung

Topological data analysis is a powerful tool for describing topological signatures in real world data. An important challenge in topological data analysis is matching significant topological signals across distinct systems. In geometry and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Stephen Y Zhang , Michael P H Stumpf , Tom Needham , Agnese Barbensi

Understanding the structure of high-dimensional data is fundamental to neuroscience and other data-intensive scientific fields. While persistent homology effectively identifies basic topological features such as "holes," it lacks the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Ekaterina S. Ivshina , Galit Anikeeva , Ling Zhou

We address the problem of estimating topological features from data in high dimensional Euclidean spaces under the manifold assumption. Our approach is based on the computation of persistent homology of the space of data points endowed with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-23 Ximena Fernández , Eugenio Borghini , Gabriel Mindlin , Pablo Groisman

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

We introduce several geometric notions, including the width of a homology class, to the theory of persistent homology. These ideas provide geometric interpretations of persistence diagrams. Indeed, we give quantitative and geometric…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-12-27 Henry Adams , Baris Coskunuzer

The subject of persistent homology has vitalized applications of algebraic topology to point cloud data and to application fields far outside the realm of pure mathematics. The area has seen several fundamentally important results that are…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2013-11-12 Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson