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Persistent homology is a natural tool for probing the topological characteristics of weighted graphs, essentially focusing on their $0$-dimensional homology. While this area has been substantially studied, we present a new approach to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Omer Bobrowski , Primoz Skraba

In this study, we present and analyze a framework for geometric and topological estimation for mapping of unknown environments. We consider agents mimicking motion behaviors of cyborg insects, known as biobots, and exploit coordinate-free…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Alireza Dirafzoon , Alper Bozkurt , Edgar Lobaton

Persistent Homology is a powerful tool in Topological Data Analysis (TDA) to capture topological properties of data succinctly at different spatial resolutions. For graphical data, shape, and structure of the neighborhood of individual data…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Sumit Bhatia , Bapi Chatterjee , Deepak Nathani , Manohar Kaul

Topological data analysis can reveal higher-order structure beyond pairwise connections between vertices in complex networks. We present a new method based on discrete Morse theory to study topological properties of unweighted and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Harish Kannan , Emil Saucan , Indrava Roy , Areejit Samal

The latent space approach to complex networks has revealed fundamental principles and symmetries, enabling geometric methods. However, the conditions under which network topology implies geometricity remain unclear. We provide a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-03 Roya Aliakbarisani , Marián Boguñá , M. Ángeles Serrano

Determining whether two graphs are isomorphic is a fundamental problem with practical applications in areas such as molecular chemistry or social network analysis, yet it remains a challenging task, with exact solutions often being…

In recent years, network embedding methods have garnered increasing attention because of their effectiveness in various information retrieval tasks. The goal is to learn low-dimensional representations of vertexes in an information network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Chih-Ming Chen , Yi-Hsuan Yang , Yian Chen , Ming-Feng Tsai

Geometry and topology constitute complementary descriptors of three-dimensional shape, yet existing benchmark datasets primarily capture geometric information while neglecting topological structure. This work addresses this limitation by…

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Embedding graphs in continous spaces is a key factor in designing and developing algorithms for automatic information extraction to be applied in diverse tasks (e.g., learning, inferring, predicting). The reliability of graph embeddings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Andrea Marinoni , Pietro Lio' , Alessandro Barp , Christian Jutten , Mark Girolami

We present a unified pipeline for univariate time series classification via complex networks and persistent homology. A time series is mapped to a graph through one of five constructions across three families (visibility (natural and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-05 İsmail Güzel

Characterizing the structural properties of neural networks is crucial yet poorly understood, and there are no well-established similarity measures between networks. In this work, we observe that neural networks can be represented as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 David Pérez-Fernández , Asier Gutiérrez-Fandiño , Jordi Armengol-Estapé , Marta Villegas

Recently a new feature representation and data analysis methodology based on a topological tool called persistent homology (and its corresponding persistence diagram summary) has started to attract momentum. A series of methods have been…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Qi Zhao , Yusu Wang

Network centrality measures play a crucial role in understanding graph structures, assessing the importance of nodes, paths, or cycles based on directed or reciprocal interactions encoded by vertices and edges. Estrada and Ross extended…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-04-26 John Rick D. Manzanares , Paul Samuel P. Ignacio

We consider the problem of estimating the topology of multiple networks from nodal observations, where these networks are assumed to be drawn from the same (unknown) random graph model. We adopt a graphon as our random graph model, which is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-21 Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra

Most complex systems can be captured by graphs or networks. Networks connect nodes (e.g.\ neurons) through edges (synapses), thus summarizing the system's structure. A popular way of interrogating graphs is community detection, which…

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Classical unsupervised learning methods like clustering and linear dimensionality reduction parametrize large-scale geometry when it is discrete or linear, while more modern methods from manifold learning find low dimensional representation…

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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

Persistent homology is a popular method for computing topological features of (metric) data. Standard approaches based on the \v{C}ech or Rips filtration are stable under small perturbations of the data, but highly sensitive to outliers.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Pepijn Roos Hoefgeest , Lucas Slot

When training transformers on graph-structured data, incorporating information about the underlying topology is crucial for good performance. Topological masking, a type of relative position encoding, achieves this by upweighting or…

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…