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Since its introduction as a computable approximation of the Reeb graph, the Mapper graph has become one of the most popular tools from topological data analysis for performing data visualization and inference. However, finding an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Ziyad Oulhaj , Mathieu Carrière , Bertrand Michel

In this article, we study the question of the statistical convergence of the 1-dimensional Mapper to its continuous analogue, the Reeb graph. We show that the Mapper is an optimal estimator of the Reeb graph, which gives, as a byproduct, a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Mathieu Carrière , Bertrand Michel , Steve Oudot

The Reeb space, which generalizes the notion of a Reeb graph, is one of the few tools in topological data analysis and visualization suitable for the study of multivariate scientific datasets. First introduced by Edelsbrunner et al., it…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Elizabeth Munch , Bei Wang

We study the probabilistic convergence between the mapper graph and the Reeb graph of a topological space $\mathbb{X}$ equipped with a continuous function $f: \mathbb{X} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$. We first give a categorification of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-08-17 Adam Brown , Omer Bobrowski , Elizabeth Munch , Bei Wang

Mapper is an algorithm that summarizes the topological information contained in a dataset and provides an insightful visualization. It takes as input a point cloud which is possibly high-dimensional, a filter function on it and an open…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Bishal Deb , Ankita Sarkar , Nupur Kumari , Akash Rupela , Piyush Gupta , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Reeb graphs are a fundamental structure for analyzing the topological and geometric properties of scalar fields. Comparing Reeb graphs is crucial for advancing research in this domain, yet existing metrics are often computationally…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Erin W. Chambers , Guangyu Meng

Given a map $f:X \to M$ from a topological space $X$ to a metric space $M$, a decorated Reeb space consists of the Reeb space, together with an attribution function whose values recover geometric information lost during the construction of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Justin Curry , Washington Mio , Tom Needham , Osman Berat Okutan , Florian Russold

In many real-world applications data come as discrete metric spaces sampled around 1-dimensional filamentary structures that can be seen as metric graphs. In this paper we address the metric reconstruction problem of such filamentary…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Frédéric Chazal , Jian Sun

A Reeb graph is a graphical representation of a scalar function on a topological space that encodes the topology of the level sets. A Reeb space is a generalization of the Reeb graph to a multiparameter function. In this paper, we propose…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Qingsong Wang , Guanqun Ma , Raghavendra Sridharamurthy , Bei Wang

We propose a modification of the Mapper algorithm that removes the assumption of a single resolution scale across semantic space and improves the robustness of the results under change of parameters. Our work is motivated by datasets where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Kaleb D. Ruscitti , Leland McInnes

The Mapper algorithm, a technique within topological data analysis (TDA), constructs a simplified graphical representation of high-dimensional data to uncover its underlying shape and structural patterns. The algorithm has attracted…

General Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Vine Nwabuisi Madukpe , Bright Chukwuma Ugoala , Nur Fariha Syaqina Zulkepli

The Reeb graph is a construction that studies a topological space through the lens of a real valued function. It has widely been used in applications, however its use on real data means that it is desirable and increasingly necessary to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Ulrich Bauer , Elizabeth Munch , Yusu Wang

The Reeb graph has been utilized in various applications including the analysis of scalar fields. Recently, research has been focused on using topological signatures such as the Reeb graph to compare multiple scalar fields by defining…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Brian Bollen , Erin Chambers , Joshua A. Levine , Elizabeth Munch

Unsupervised data representation and visualization using tools from topology is an active and growing field of Topological Data Analysis (TDA) and data science. Its most prominent line of work is based on the so-called Mapper graph, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Ziyad Oulhaj , Mathieu Carrière , Bertrand Michel

The Mapper algorithm is an essential tool for visualizing complex, high dimensional data in topology data analysis (TDA) and has been widely used in biomedical research. It outputs a combinatorial graph whose structure implies the shape of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Yuyang Tao , Shufei Ge

Mapper graphs are widely used tools in topological data analysis and visualization. They can be understood as discrete approximations of Reeb graphs, providing insight into the shape and connectivity of complex data. Given a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Erin Wolf Chambers , Ishika Ghosh , Elizabeth Munch , Sarah Percival , Bei Wang

Distance measures play an important role in shape classification and data analysis problems. Topological distances based on Reeb graphs and persistence diagrams have been employed to obtain effective algorithms in shape matching and scalar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Yashwanth Ramamurthi , Amit Chattopadhyay

We consider the Reeb graph of a thickening of points sampled from an unknown space. Our main contribution is a framework to transfer reconstruction results similar to the well-known work of Niyogi, Smale, and Weinberger to the setting of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Håvard Bakke Bjerkevik , Nello Blaser , Lars M. Salbu

Mapper is an unsupervised machine learning algorithm generalising the notion of clustering to obtain a geometric description of a dataset. The procedure splits the data into possibly overlapping bins which are then clustered. The output of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Francisco Belchí , Jacek Brodzki , Matthew Burfitt , Mahesan Niranjan

As graphical summaries for topological spaces and maps, Reeb graphs are common objects in the computer graphics or topological data analysis literature. Defining good metrics between these objects has become an important question for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Mathieu Carrière , Steve Oudot
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