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This paper presents the first approach to visualize the importance of topological features that define classes of data. Topological features, with their ability to abstract the fundamental structure of complex data, are an integral…

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To enhance the robustness of the Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LightGBM) algorithm for image classification, a topological data analysis (TDA)-based robustness optimization algorithm for LightGBM, TDA-LightGBM, is proposed to address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Han Yang , Guangjun Qin , Ziyuan Liu , Yongqing Hu , Qinglong Dai

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) has been successfully used for various tasks in signal/image processing, from visualization to supervised/unsupervised classification. Often, topological characteristics are obtained from persistent homology…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Guillem Bonafos , Jean-Marc Freyermuth , Pierre Pudlo , Samuel Tronçon , Arnaud Rey

We introduce a method for training neural networks to perform image or volume segmentation in which prior knowledge about the topology of the segmented object can be explicitly provided and then incorporated into the training process. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 James R. Clough , Nicholas Byrne , Ilkay Oksuz , Veronika A. Zimmer , Julia A. Schnabel , Andrew P. King

Features such as photon rings, jets, or hot. spots can leave particular topological signatures in a black hole image. As such, topological data analysis can be used to characterize images resulting from high resolution observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-11 Pierre Christian , Chi-kwan Chan , Anthony Hsu , Feryal Ozel , Dimitrios Psaltis , Iniyan Natarajan

This work presents a comparative evaluation of two fundamentally different feature extraction paradigms--Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) and Topological Data Analysis (TDA)--for medical image classification, with a focus on retinal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Faisal Ahmed

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

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) provides powerful tools to explore the shape and structure of data through topological features such as clusters, loops, and voids. Persistence diagrams are a cornerstone of TDA, capturing the evolution of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Alexander Mironenko , Evgeny. Burnaev , Serguei Barannikov

In this chapter, we discuss applications of topological data analysis (TDA) to spatial systems. We briefly review the recently proposed level-set construction of filtered simplicial complexes, and we then examine persistent homology in two…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Michelle Feng , Abigail Hickok , Mason A. Porter

Deep learning methods have achieved a lot of success in various applications involving converting wearable sensor data to actionable health insights. A common application areas is activity recognition, where deep-learning methods still…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Eun Som Jeon , Hongjun Choi , Ankita Shukla , Yuan Wang , Hyunglae Lee , Matthew P. Buman , Pavan Turaga

Modern business and economic datasets often exhibit nonlinear, multi-scale structures that traditional linear tools under-represent. Topological Data Analysis (TDA) offers a geometric lens for uncovering robust patterns, such as connected…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-18 Ioannis Diamantis

Persistent Homology is a powerful tool in Topological Data Analysis (TDA) to capture topological properties of data succinctly at different spatial resolutions. For graphical data, shape, and structure of the neighborhood of individual data…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Sumit Bhatia , Bapi Chatterjee , Deepak Nathani , Manohar Kaul

The study of topology is strictly speaking, a topic in pure mathematics. However in only a few years, Topological Data Analysis (TDA), which refers to methods of utilizing topological features in data (such as connected components, tunnels,…

Applications · Statistics 2019-09-25 Nalini Ravishanker , Renjie Chen

Assessing the quality of 3D printed models before they are printed remains a challeng- ing problem, particularly when considering point cloud-based models. This paper introduces an approach to quality assessment, which uses techniques from…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Paul Rosen , Mustafa Hajij , Junyi Tu , Tanvirul Arafin , Les Piegl

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) combines computational topology and data science to extract and analyze intrinsic topological and geometric structures in data set in a metric space. While the persistent homology (PH), a widely used tool in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Chuanshen Hu , Yu Wang , Kelin Xia , Ke Ye , Yipeng Zhang

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) has emerged as a powerful tool for extracting meaningful features from complex data structures, driving significant advancements in fields such as neuroscience, biology, machine learning, and financial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 ZiXin Lin , Nur Fariha Syaqina Zulkepli

This paper investigates how Transformer language models (LMs) fine-tuned for acceptability classification capture linguistic features. Our approach uses the best practices of topological data analysis (TDA) in NLP: we construct directed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Irina Proskurina , Irina Piontkovskaya , Ekaterina Artemova

Topological methods for comparing weighted graphs are valuable in various learning tasks but often suffer from computational inefficiency on large datasets. We introduce RTD-Lite, a scalable algorithm that efficiently compares topological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Eduard Tulchinskii , Daria Voronkova , Ilya Trofimov , Evgeny Burnaev , Serguei Barannikov

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a rapidly evolving field in applied mathematics and data science that leverages tools from topology to uncover robust, shape-driven insights in complex datasets. The main workhorse is persistent homology,…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Zhe Su , Xiang Liu , Layal Bou Hamdan , Vasileios Maroulas , Jie Wu , Gunnar Carlsson , Guo-Wei Wei

Persistent homology, an algebraic method for discerning structure in abstract data, relies on the construction of a sequence of nested topological spaces known as a filtration. Two-parameter persistent homology allows the analysis of data…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Anway De , Thong Vo , Matthew Wright