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Persistent homology (PH) encodes global information, such as cycles, and is thus increasingly integrated into graph neural networks (GNNs). PH methods in GNNs typically traverse an increasing sequence of subgraphs. In this work, we first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Mattie Ji , Indradyumna Roy , Vikas Garg

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

Persistent homology, a central tool of topological data analysis, provides invariants of data called barcodes (also known as persistence diagrams). A barcode is simply a multiset of real intervals. Recent work of Edelsbrunner, Jablonski,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-10-12 Ulrich Bauer , Michael Lesnick

Persistent homology (PH) is one of the most popular methods in Topological Data Analysis. Even though PH has been used in many different types of applications, the reasons behind its success remain elusive; in particular, it is not known…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Renata Turkeš , Guido Montúfar , Nina Otter

A topological shape analysis is proposed and utilized to learn concepts that reflect shape commonalities. Our approach is two-fold: i) a spatial topology analysis of point cloud segment constellations within objects. Therein constellations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Christian A. Mueller , Andreas Birk

Persistent homology is a tool that can be employed to summarize the shape of data by quantifying homological features. When the data is an object in $\mathbb{R}^d$, the (augmented) persistent homology transform ((A)PHT) is a family of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Brittany Terese Fasy , Samuel Micka , David L. Millman , Anna Schenfisch , Lucia Williams

Point-cloud persistent homology (PH) -- computing alpha or Rips complexes on spin-position point clouds -- has been widely applied to detect phase transitions in classical spin models since Donato et al. (2016), with subsequent studies…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-01 Matthew Loftus

A suitable feature representation that can both preserve the data intrinsic information and reduce data complexity and dimensionality is key to the performance of machine learning models. Deeply rooted in algebraic topology, persistent…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-11-02 Chi Seng Pun , Kelin Xia , Si Xian Lee

Persistent homology provides information about the lifetime of homology classes along a filtration of cell complexes. Persistence barcode is a graphical representation of such information. A filtration might be determined by time in a set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz , Maria-Jose Jimenez , Belen Medrano

The analysis of nonlinear dynamics is an important issue in numerous fields of science. In this study, we propose a new method to analyze the time series data using persistent homology (PH). The key idea is the application of PH to the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-04-04 Takashi Ichinomiya

We apply modern methods in computational topology to the task of discovering and characterizing phase transitions. As illustrations, we apply our method to four two-dimensional lattice spin models: the Ising, square ice, XY, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-04 Alex Cole , Gregory J. Loges , Gary Shiu

3-D shape is important to chemistry, but how important? Machine learning works best when the inputs are simple and match the problem well. Chemistry datasets tend to be very small compared to those generally used in machine learning so we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Ella Gale

Art is a deeply personal and expressive medium, where each artist brings their own style, technique, and cultural background into their work. Traditionally, identifying artistic styles has been the job of art historians or critics, relying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Reetikaa Reddy Munnangi , Barbara Giunti

Persistent Homology (PH) allows tracking homology features like loops, holes and their higher-dimensional analogs, along with a single-parameter family of nested spaces. Currently, computing descriptors for complex data characterized by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Sara Scaramuccia , Federico Iuricich , Leila De Floriani , Claudia Landi

In medical image analysis, feature engineering plays an important role in the design and performance of machine learning models. Persistent homology (PH), from the field of topological data analysis (TDA), demonstrates robustness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Dashti A. Ali , Richard K. G. Do , William R. Jarnagin , Aras T. Asaad , Amber L. Simpson

Characterization of medium-range order in amorphous materials and its relation to short-range order is discussed. A new topological approach is presented here to extract a hierarchical structure of amorphous materials, which is robust…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-02-27 Takenobu Nakamura , Yasuaki Hiraoka , Akihiko Hirata , Emerson G. Escolar , Yasumasa Nishiura

The persistence barcode is a topological descriptor of data that plays a fundamental role in topological data analysis. Given a filtration of data, the persistence barcode tracks the evolution of its homology groups. In this paper, we…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Tao Hou , Salman Parsa , Bei Wang

The persistent homology transform (PHT) represents a shape with a multiset of persistence diagrams parameterized by the sphere of directions in the ambient space. In this work, we describe a finite set of diagrams that discretize the PHT…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Brittany Terese Fasy , Samuel Micka , David L. Millman , Anna Schenfisch , Lucia Williams

The theory of multidimensional persistent homology was initially developed in the discrete setting, and involved the study of simplicial complexes filtered through an ordering of the simplices. Later, stability properties of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-03-28 Niccolò Cavazza , Marc Ethier , Patrizio Frosini , Tomasz Kaczynski , Claudia Landi

We discuss and review recent developments in the area of applied algebraic topology, such as persistent homology and barcodes. In particular, we discuss how these are related to understanding more about manifold learning from random point…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Robert J. Adler , Omer Bobrowski , Matthew S. Borman , Eliran Subag , Shmuel Weinberger