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Over the past decade, the techniques of topological data analysis (TDA) have grown into prominence to describe the shape of data. In recent years, there has been increasing interest in developing statistical methods and in particular…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-13 Umar Islambekov , Hasani Pathirana

Many topological data analysis (TDA) pipelines compute large collections of persistence diagrams, yet vectorizations and kernel methods discard the rank-induced implication relations among persistence intervals that are essential for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Charles Fanning , Mehmet Aktas

Persistence diagrams play a fundamental role in Topological Data Analysis where they are used as topological descriptors of filtrations built on top of data. They consist in discrete multisets of points in the plane $\mathbb{R}^2$ that can…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Frédéric Chazal , Vincent Divol

In this paper we propose tight upper and lower bounds for the Wasserstein distance between any two {{univariate continuous distributions}} with probability densities $p_1$ and $p_2$ having nested supports. These explicit bounds are…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-21 Christophe Ley , Gesine Reinert , Yvik Swan

We say that an algorithm is stable if small changes in the input result in small changes in the output. This kind of algorithm stability is particularly relevant when analyzing and visualizing time-varying data. Stability in general plays…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Wouter Meulemans , Bettina Speckmann , Kevin Verbeek , Jules Wulms

Persistent homology is a popular and useful tool for analysing finite metric spaces, revealing features that can be used to distinguish sets of unlabeled points and as input into machine learning pipelines. The famous stability theorem of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Philip Smith , Vitaliy Kurlin

We investigate the stability of solutions to the Vlasov-Poisson system using the unifying framework of the kinetic Wasserstein distance, introduced by Iacobelli in (Section 4 in Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 244 (2022), no. 1, 27-50). This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Jonathan Junné , Alexandre Rege

In this paper, we introduce the persistence transformation, a novel methodology in Topological Data Analysis (TDA) for applications in time series data which can be obtained in various areas such as science, politics, economy, healthcare,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-31 Gideon Klaila , Anastasios Stefanou , Lena Ranke

Persistence diagrams are important tools in the field of topological data analysis that describe the presence and magnitude of features in a filtered topological space. However, current approaches for comparing a persistence diagram to a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Brittany Terese Fasy , Xiaozhou He , Zhihui Liu , Samuel Micka , David L. Millman , Binhai Zhu

To our knowledge, the analysis of convergence rates for persistence diagrams estimation from noisy signals has predominantly relied on lifting signal estimation results through sup-norm (or other functional norm) stability theorems. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Hugo Henneuse

This paper presents a robust and efficient method for tracking topological features in time-varying scalar data. Structures are tracked based on the optimal matching between persistence diagrams with respect to the Wasserstein metric. This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-03 Maxime Soler , Mélanie Plainchault , Bruno Conche , Julien Tierny

This paper presents an algorithm for the efficient approximation of the saddle-extremum persistence diagram of a scalar field. Vidal et al. introduced recently a fast algorithm for such an approximation (by interrupting a progressive…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Jules Vidal , Julien Tierny

Many datasets can be viewed as a noisy sampling of an underlying space, and tools from topological data analysis can characterize this structure for the purpose of knowledge discovery. One such tool is persistent homology, which provides a…

Many attempts have been made in recent decades to integrate machine learning (ML) and topological data analysis. A prominent problem in applying persistent homology to ML tasks is finding a vector representation of a persistence diagram…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Zhetong Dong , Hongwei Lin , Chi Zhou

Persistent homology (PH) is a rigorous mathematical theory that provides a robust descriptor of data in the form of persistence diagrams (PDs) which are 2D multisets of points. Their variable size makes them, however, difficult to combine…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-14 Bartosz Zielinski , Michal Lipinski , Mateusz Juda , Matthias Zeppelzauer , Pawel Dlotko

As interest in graph data has grown in recent years, the computation of various geometric tools has become essential. In some area such as mesh processing, they often rely on the computation of geodesics and shortest paths in discretized…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Marc Theveneau , Nicolas Keriven

This paper uses the notion of algorithmic stability to derive novel generalization bounds for several families of transductive regression algorithms, both by using convexity and closed-form solutions. Our analysis helps compare the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-04-07 Corinna Cortes , Mehryar Mohri , Dmitry Pechyony , Ashish Rastogi

Given a filtration of simplicial complexes, one usually applies persistent homology and summarizes the results in barcodes. Then, in order to extract statistical information from these barcodes, one needs to compute statistical indicators…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Alessandro Bravetti , Martín Mijangos , Pablo Padilla

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

Topological statistics, in the form of persistence diagrams, are a class of shape descriptors that capture global structural information in data. The mapping from data structures to persistence diagrams is almost everywhere differentiable,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-24 Elchanan Solomon , Alexander Wagner , Paul Bendich