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Persistence diagrams (PDs) are now routinely used to summarize the underlying topology of complex data. Despite several appealing properties, incorporating PDs in learning pipelines can be challenging because their natural geometry is not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-14 Théo Lacombe , Marco Cuturi , Steve Oudot

The theory of complex networks and of disordered systems is used to study the stability and dynamical properties of a simple model of material flow networks defined on random graphs. In particular we address instabilities that are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Kartik Anand , Tobias Galla

The persistent homology of a stationary point process on ${\bf R}^N$ is studied in this paper. As a generalization of continuum percolation theory, we study higher dimensional topological features of the point process such as loops,…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Trinh Khanh Duy , Yasuaki Hiraoka , Tomoyuki Shirai

The \v{C}ech and Rips constructions of persistent homology are stable with respect to perturbations of the input data. However, neither is robust to outliers, and both can be insensitive to topological structure of high-density regions of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-04-29 Andrew J. Blumberg , Michael Lesnick

Graphs are playing a crucial role in different fields since they are powerful tools to unveil intrinsic relationships among signals. In many scenarios, an accurate graph structure representing signals is not available at all and that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Xiang Zhang , Yinfei Xu , Qinghe Liu , Zhicheng Liu , Jian Lu , Qiao Wang

Since persistence diagrams do not admit an inner product structure, a map into a Hilbert space is needed in order to use kernel methods. It is natural to ask if such maps necessarily distort the metric on persistence diagrams. We show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Peter Bubenik , Alexander Wagner

This article is dedicated to the study of diagonal hyperbolic systems in one space dimension, with cumulative distribution functions, or more generally nonconstant monotonic bounded functions, as initial data. Under a uniform strict…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Benjamin Jourdain , Julien Reygner

In this paper we define a novel edit distance for merge trees, which we argue to be suitable for a good range of applications. Relying also on some technical results contained in other works, we investigate its stability properties, which…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Matteo Pegoraro

We extend classical tools from rational homotopy theory to topological data analysis by introducing persistent Sullivan minimal models of persistent topological spaces. Our main result establishes that the interleaving distance between such…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Ling Zhou

It is known that for a variety of choices of metrics, including the standard bottleneck distance, the space of persistence diagrams admits geodesics. Typically these existence results produce geodesics that have the form of a convex…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Samir Chowdhury

We study estimators of the optimal transport (OT) map between two probability distributions. We focus on plugin estimators derived from the OT map between estimates of the underlying distributions. We develop novel stability bounds for OT…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Sivaraman Balakrishnan , Tudor Manole

Persistent homology (PH) has been widely applied to graph data to extract topological features. However, little attention has been paid to how different distance functions on a graph affect the resulting persistence barcodes and their…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Eunwoo Heo , Byeongchan Choi , Jae-Hun Jung

We consider a damped linear hyperbolic system modelling the propagation of pressure waves in a network of pipes. Well-posedness is established via semi-group theory and the existence of a unique steady state is proven in the absence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-11 Herbert Egger , Thomas Kugler

Persistence diagrams are two-dimensional plots that summarize the topological features of functions and are an important part of topological data analysis. A problem that has received much attention is how deal with sets of persistence…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-10-12 Yen-Chi Chen , Daren Wang , Alessandro Rinaldo , Larry Wasserman

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) has emerged as a powerful framework for extracting robust and interpretable features from noisy high-dimensional data. In the context of Social Choice Theory, where preference profiles and collective…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Athanasios Andrikopoulos , Nikolaos Sampanis

Under Gromov--Hausdorff convergence, and equivariant Gromov--Hausdorff convergence, we prove stability results of Wasserstein spaces over certain classes of singular and non-singular spaces. For example, we obtain an analogue of Perelman's…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Mohammad Alattar

This paper discusses a general and useful stability principle which, roughly speaking, says that given a uniformly continuous function defined on an arbitrary metric space, if the function is bounded on the constraint set and we slightly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-04 Daniel Reem , Simeon Reich , Alvaro De Pierro

Topological methods for data analysis present opportunities for enforcing certain invariances of broad interest in computer vision, including view-point in activity analysis, articulation in shape analysis, and measurement invariance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Anirudh Som , Kowshik Thopalli , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy , Vinay Venkataraman , Ankita Shukla , Pavan Turaga

Persistence diagrams, which summarize the birth and death of homological features extracted from data, are employed as stable signatures for applications in image analysis and other areas. Besides simply considering the multiset of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Tamal K. Dey , Tao Hou , Sayan Mandal

The persistence diagram is an increasingly useful tool from Topological Data Analysis, but its use alongside typical machine learning techniques requires mathematical finesse. The most success to date has come from methods that map…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Jose A. Perea , Elizabeth Munch , Firas A. Khasawneh