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In this paper, three Computational Topology methods (namely effective homology, persistent homology and discrete vector fields) are mixed together to produce algorithms for homological digital image processing. The algorithms have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Ana Romero , Julio Rubio , Francis Sergeraert

One of the most elusive challenges within the area of topological data analysis is understanding the distribution of persistence diagrams. Despite much effort, this is still largely an open problem. In this paper, we present a series of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-11 Omer Bobrowski , Primoz Skraba

Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in the application of persistent homology, a topological tool for data analysis, to machine learning problems. Persistent homology is known for its ability to numerically characterize the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Jen-Yu Liu , Shyh-Kang Jeng , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Persistent homology is a cornerstone of topological data analysis, offering a multiscale summary of topology with robustness to nuisance transformations, such as rotations and small deformations. Persistent homology has seen broad use…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-19 Zitian Wu , Arkaprava Roy , Leo L. Duan

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

Topological Data Analysis has grown in popularity in recent years as a way to apply tools from algebraic topology to large data sets. One of the main tools in topological data analysis is persistent homology. This paper uses undergraduate…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Cheyne Glass , Elizabeth Vidaurre

We describe an approach to bounded-memory computation of persistent homology and betti barcodes, in which a computational state is maintained with updates introducing new edges to the underlying neighbourhood graph and percolating the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-06-01 Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson

High-dimensional datasets depict a challenge for learning tasks in data mining and machine learning. Feature selection is an effective technique in dealing with dimensionality reduction. It is often an essential data processing step prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Gustavo Sosa-Cabrera , Santiago Gómez-Guerrero , Miguel García-Torres , Christian E. Schaerer

Persistent homology is a method for probing topological properties of point clouds and functions. The method involves tracking the birth and death of topological features (2000) as one varies a tuning parameter. Features with short…

Topological data analysis is an emerging area in exploratory data analysis and data mining. Its main tool, persistent homology, has become a popular technique to study the structure of complex, high-dimensional data. In this paper, we…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Mustafa Hajij , Bei Wang , Carlos Scheidegger , Paul Rosen

We present in this paper a framework which leverages the underlying topology of a data set, in order to produce appropriate coordinate representations. In particular, we show how to construct maps to real and complex projective spaces,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-08-10 Jose A. Perea

Using persistent homology to guide optimization has emerged as a novel application of topological data analysis. Existing methods treat persistence calculation as a black box and backpropagate gradients only onto the simplices involved in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Arnur Nigmetov , Dmitriy Morozov

Topological data analysis is an emerging mathematical concept for characterizing shapes in multi-scale data. In this field, persistence diagrams are widely used as a descriptor of the input data, and can distinguish robust and noisy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-13 Genki Kusano , Kenji Fukumizu , Yasuaki Hiraoka

We introduce a theoretical and computational framework to use discrete Morse theory as an efficient preprocessing in order to compute zigzag persistent homology. From a zigzag filtration of complexes $(K_i)$, we introduce a zigzag Morse…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Clément Maria , Hannah Schreiber

Given an arbitrary fixed continuously differentiable vector field on $\mathbb{R}^n$, we prove that this vector field is coercive if and only if its conservative part is coercive. We apply this result in order to provide sufficient…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-04-15 Razvan M. Tudoran

While topological data analysis has emerged as a powerful paradigm for structural inference, its foundational tools, notably persistent homology and the persistent Laplacian, are frequently insensitive to localized structural fluctuations…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Jian Liu , Hongsong Feng , Kefeng Liu

Information networks are becoming increasingly popular to capture complex relationships across various disciplines, such as social networks, citation networks, and biological networks. The primary challenge in this domain is measuring…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Mehmet Emin Aktas , Esra Akbas , Ahmed El Fatmaoui

We apply persistent homology to the task of discovering and characterizing phase transitions, using lattice spin models from statistical physics for working examples. Persistence images provide a useful representation of the homological…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-03 Alex Cole , Gregory J. Loges , Gary Shiu

Random fields have remained a topic of great interest over past decades for the purpose of structured inference, especially for problems such as image segmentation. The local nodal interactions commonly used in such models often suffer the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Alexander Wong , Paul Fieguth

Computational topologists recently developed a method, called persistent homology to analyze data presented in terms of similarity or dissimilarity. Indeed, persistent homology studies the evolution of topological features in terms of a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-08-01 Pavel Petrov , Stephen T Rush , Zhichun Zhai , Christine H Lee , Peter T Kim , Giseon Heo