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Real data is often given as a point cloud, i.e. a finite set of points with pairwise distances between them. An important problem is to detect the topological shape of data --- for example, to approximate a point cloud by a low-dimensional…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Sara Kalisnik Verovsek , Vitaliy Kurlin , Davorin Lesnik

Single-parameter persistent homology, a key tool in topological data analysis, has been widely applied to data problems along with statistical techniques that quantify the significance of the results. In contrast, statistical techniques for…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-14 Matthew Wright , Xiaojun Zheng

Persistent homology is a multiscale method for analyzing the shape of sets and functions from point cloud data arising from an unknown distribution supported on those sets. When the size of the sample is large, direct computation of the…

Different cell types aggregate and sort into hierarchical architectures during the formation of animal tissues. The resulting spatial organization depends (in part) on the strength of adhesion of one cell type to itself relative to other…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-02 Dhananjay Bhaskar , William Y. Zhang , Alexandria Volkening , Björn Sandstede , Ian Y. Wong

Appropriately representing elements in a database so that queries may be accurately matched is a central task in information retrieval; recently, this has been achieved by embedding the graphical structure of the database into a manifold in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-10 Yueqi Cao , Athanasios Vlontzos , Luca Schmidtke , Bernhard Kainz , Anthea Monod

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

Natural data offer a hard challenge to data analysis. One set of tools is being developed by several teams to face this difficult task: Persistent topology. After a brief introduction to this theory, some applications to the analysis and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-08-21 Massimo Ferri

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

The topological patterns exhibited by many real-world networks motivate the development of topology-based methods for assessing the similarity of networks. However, extracting topological structure is difficult, especially for large and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Tananun Songdechakraiwut , Bryan M. Krause , Matthew I. Banks , Kirill V. Nourski , Barry D. Van Veen

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 (TDA) is a rigorous framework that borrows techniques from geometric and algebraic topology, category theory, and combinatorics in order to study the "shape" of such complex high-dimensional data. Research in this…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-04-15 R. W. R. Darling , John A. Emanuello , Emilie Purvine , Ahmad Ridley

We use topological data analysis and machine learning to study a seminal model of collective motion in biology [D'Orsogna et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 (2006)]. This model describes agents interacting nonlinearly via attractive-repulsive…

Hypergraph data appear and are hidden in many places in the modern age. They are data structure that can be used to model many real data examples since their structures contain information about higher order relations among data points. One…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Dong Quan Ngoc Nguyen , Lin Xing , Lizhen Lin

Classification of large and dense networks based on topology is very difficult due to the computational challenges of extracting meaningful topological features from real-world networks. In this paper we present a computationally tractable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Tananun Songdechakraiwut , Bryan M. Krause , Matthew I. Banks , Kirill V. Nourski , Barry D. Van Veen

Mixed data comprises both numeric and categorical features, and mixed datasets occur frequently in many domains, such as health, finance, and marketing. Clustering is often applied to mixed datasets to find structures and to group similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Amir Ahmad , Shehroz S. Khan

We propose a novel method for topological analysis of unweighted graphs which is based on \textit{persistent homology}. The proposed method maps the input graph to a complete weighted graph where the weighting function maps each edge to a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Padraig Corcoran

One of the most widely used techniques for data clustering is agglomerative clustering. Such algorithms have been long used across many different fields ranging from computational biology to social sciences to computer vision in part…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Maria-Florina Balcan , Yingyu Liang , Pramod Gupta

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) offers a suite of computational tools that provide quantified shape features in high dimensional data that can be used by modern statistical and predictive machine learning (ML) models. In particular,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Dominic Gold , Koray Karabina , Francis C. Motta

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

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