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The topological analysis of four-dimensional (4D) image-type data is challenged by the immense size that these datasets can reach. This can render the direct application of methods, like persistent homology and convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Khalil Mathieu Hannouch , Stephan Chalup

Weak gravitational lensing (WL) causes distortions of galaxy images and probes massive structures on large scales, allowing us to understand the late-time evolution of the Universe. One way to extract the cosmological information from WL is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Chieh-An Lin

Computational topology has recently known an important development toward data analysis, giving birth to the field of topological data analysis. Topological persistence, or persistent homology, appears as a fundamental tool in this field.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-28 Frédéric Chazal , Marc Glisse , Catherine Labruère , Bertrand Michel

We show that persistence-based topology of the 21 cm forest encodes information about Cosmic Dawn that is complementary to traditional amplitude- or correlation-based statistics. Applying topological data analysis to simulated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Hayato Shimabukuro

Cosmic shear data contains a large amount of cosmological information encapsulated in the non-Gaussian features of the weak lensing mass maps. This information can be extracted using non-Gaussian statistics. We compare the constraining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Dominik Zürcher , Janis Fluri , Raphael Sgier , Tomasz Kacprzak , Alexandre Refregier

We present cosmological parameter constraints from a joint analysis of three cosmological probes: the tomographic cosmic shear signal in $\sim$450 deg$^2$ of data from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS), the galaxy-matter cross-correlation…

Persistent homology is a popular computational tool for analyzing the topology of point clouds, such as the presence of loops or voids. However, many real-world datasets with low intrinsic dimensionality reside in an ambient space of much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Sebastian Damrich , Philipp Berens , Dmitry Kobak

We constrain cosmological parameters from a joint cosmic shear analysis of peak-counts and the two-point shear correlation functions, as measured from the Dark Energy Survey (DES-Y1). We find the structure growth parameter $S_8\equiv…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Nicolas Martinet , Tiago Castro , Klaus Dolag , Benjamin Giblin , Catherine Heymans , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Qianli Xia

Qualitative methods such as the linear sampling method and the factorization method reconstruct acoustic scatterers through sampling indicators. In practice, these indicators are gray-scale fields on a prescribed sampling window and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Xiaomei Yang , Jiaying Jia , Zhiliang Deng

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

We explore strategies to extract cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of cosmic shear, galaxy-galaxy lensing, galaxy clustering, cluster number counts and cluster weak lensing. We utilize the CosmoLike software to simulate results…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Elisabeth Krause , Tim Eifler

Persistent homology is a relatively new tool often used for \emph{qualitative} analysis of intrinsic topological features in images and data originated from scientific and engineering applications. In this paper, we report novel…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-12-09 Kelin Xia , Xin Feng , Yiying Tong , Guo Wei We

We present cosmological constraints from weak lensing with the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) first-year (Y1) data, using a simulation-based inference (SBI) method. % We explore the performance of a set of higher-order statistics (HOS)…

This paper aims to discuss a method of quantifying the 'shape' of data, via a methodology called topological data analysis. The main tool within topological data analysis is persistent homology; this is a means of measuring the shape of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Tristan Gowdridge , Nikolaos Devilis , Keith Worden

We apply two Bayesian hierarchical inference schemes to infer shear power spectra, shear maps and cosmological parameters from the CFHTLenS weak lensing survey - the first application of this method to data. In the first approach, we sample…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-10 Justin Alsing , Alan F. Heavens , Andrew H. Jaffe

We propose to use a simple observable, the fractional area of "hot spots" in weak lensing mass maps which are detected with high significance, to determine background cosmological parameters. Because these high-shear regions are directly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-24 Sheng Wang , Zoltan Haiman , Morgan May , John Kehayias

Persistent homology is an important methodology in topological data analysis which adapts theory from algebraic topology to data settings. Computing persistent homology produces persistence diagrams, which have been successfully used in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-13 Yueqi Cao , Anthea Monod

We constrain the matter density $\Omega_{\mathrm{m}}$ and the amplitude of density fluctuations $\sigma_8$ within the $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model with shear peak statistics and angular convergence power spectra using mass maps…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-26 D. Zürcher , J. Fluri , R. Sgier , T. Kacprzak , M. Gatti , C. Doux , L. Whiteway , A. Refregier , C. Chang , N. Jeffrey , B. Jain , P. Lemos , D. Bacon , A. Alarcon , A. Amon , K. Bechtol , M. Becker , G. Bernstein , A. Campos , R. Chen , A. Choi , C. Davis , J. Derose , S. Dodelson , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. Ferte , D. Gruen , I. Harrison , D. Huterer , M. Jarvis , P. F. Leget , N. Maccrann , J. Mccullough , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Navarro Alsina , S. Pandey , J. Prat , M. Raveri , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , C. Sanchez , L. F. Secco , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , B. Yin , M. Aguena , S. Allam , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , L. da Costa , M. E. da Silva Pereira , T. Davis , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. Dietrich , P. Doel , K. Eckert , A. Evrard , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , R. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , C. Lidman , M. Lima , M. Maia , J. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. Morgan , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchon , A. Pieres , A. Plazas Malagón , K. Reil , M. Rodriguez Monroy , K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga , J. Weller , R. Wilkinson

The present contribution investigates multivariate bootstrap procedures for general stabilizing statistics, with specific application to topological data analysis. Existing limit theorems for topological statistics prove difficult to use in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Benjamin Roycraft , Johannes Krebs , Wolfgang Polonik

In weak-lensing cosmological studies, peak statistics is sensitive to nonlinear structures and thus complementary to cosmic shear two-point correlations. In this paper, we explore a new approach, namely, the peak steepness statistics, with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Ziwei Li , Xiangkun Liu , Zuhui Fan