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As both machine learning models and the datasets on which they are evaluated have grown in size and complexity, the practice of using a few summary statistics to understand model performance has become increasingly problematic. This is…

We provide a short introduction to the field of topological data analysis and discuss its possible relevance for the study of complex systems. Topological data analysis provides a set of tools to characterise the shape of data, in terms of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-12-05 Vsevolod Salnikov , Daniele Cassese , Renaud Lambiotte

The paper introduces a novel topological method for prediction and modeling for a nonlinear time--series that exhibit recurring patterns. According to the model, global manifold of the reconstructed state--space can be approximated by a few…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-21 Sajini Anand P S , Prabhakar G Vaidya

In this work we study the topological properties of temporal hypergraphs. Hypergraphs provide a higher dimensional generalization of a graph that is capable of capturing multi-way connections. As such, they have become an integral part of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Audun Myers , Cliff Joslyn , Bill Kay , Emilie Purvine , Gregory Roek , Madelyn Shapiro

Understanding the topological characteristics of data is important to many areas of research. Recent work has demonstrated that synthetic 4D image-type data can be useful to train 4D convolutional neural network models to see topological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Khalil Mathieu Hannouch , Stephan Chalup

General equilibrium is the dominant theoretical framework for economic policy analysis at the level of the whole economy. In practice, general equilibrium treats economies as being always in equilibrium, albeit in a sequence of equilibria…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2012-09-11 Eric Kemp-Benedict

A method of {\it topological grammars} is proposed for multidimensional data approximation. For data with complex topology we define a {\it principal cubic complex} of low dimension and given complexity that gives the best approximation for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 A. N. Gorban , N. R. Sumner , A. Y. Zinovyev

Topological data analysis (TDA) provides insight into data shape. The summaries obtained by these methods are principled global descriptions of multi-dimensional data whilst exhibiting stable properties such as robustness to deformation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Ali Zia , Abdelwahed Khamis , James Nichols , Zeeshan Hayder , Vivien Rolland , Lars Petersson

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

Topological data analysis asks when balls in a metric space $(X,d)$ intersect. Geometric data analysis asks how much balls have to be enlarged to intersect. We connect this principle to the traditional core geometric concept of curvature.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Parvaneh Joharinad , Jürgen Jost

Statistical analysis on object data presents many challenges. Basic summaries such as means and variances are difficult to compute. We apply ideas from topology to study object data. We present a framework for using persistence landscapes…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-12-12 Vic Patrangenaru , Peter Bubenik , Robert L. Paige , Daniel Osborne

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 models of empirical and formal inquiry are increasingly prevalent. They have emerged in such diverse fields as domain theory [1, 16], formal learning theory [18], epistemology and philosophy of science [10, 15, 8, 9, 2],…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Konstantin Genin , Kevin T. Kelly

The relationship between micro-structure and macro-structure of complex systems using information geometry has been dealt by several authors. From this perspective, we are going to apply it as a geometrical structure connecting both…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2013-10-17 M. E. Kahil

Data analysis and data mining are concerned with unsupervised pattern finding and structure determination in data sets. The data sets themselves are explicitly linked as a form of representation to an observational or otherwise empirical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-01-11 Fionn Murtagh

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) has been praised by researchers for its ability to capture intricate shapes and structures within data. TDA is considered robust in handling noisy and high-dimensional datasets, and its interpretability is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Funmilola Mary Taiwo , Umar Islambekov , Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora

Uncovering the structure of socioeconomic systems and timely estimation of socioeconomic status are significant for economic development. The understanding of socioeconomic processes provides foundations to quantify global economic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-07-02 Jian Gao , Yi-Cheng Zhang , Tao Zhou

A major problem in the study of complex socioeconomic systems is represented by privacy issues$-$that can put severe limitations on the amount of accessible information, forcing to build models on the basis of incomplete knowledge. In this…

The predictions of mean-field electrodynamics can now be probed using direct numerical simulations of random flows and magnetic fields. When modelling astrophysical MHD, it is important to verify that such simulations are in agreement with…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-09-12 Irina Makarenko , Paul Bushby , Andrew Fletcher , Robin Henderson , Nikolay Makarenko , Anvar Shukurov

A central challenge in financial economics is understanding how credit networks form under informational noise. We introduce the concept of topological capital, arguing that banks increasingly rely on topological certification, interpreting…

General Economics · Economics 2026-03-16 Anna Pirogova , Anna Mancini , Tiziano Squartini , Giulio Cimini