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Topological loss based on persistent homology has shown promise in various applications. A topological loss enforces the model to achieve certain desired topological property. Despite its empirical success, less is known about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Yikai Zhang , Jiachen Yao , Yusu Wang , Chao Chen

Topological data analysis is an emerging area in exploratory data analysis and data mining. Its main tool, persistent homology, has become a popular technique to study the structure of complex, high-dimensional data. In this paper, we…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Mustafa Hajij , Bei Wang , Carlos Scheidegger , Paul Rosen

Topological data analysis uses tools from topology -- the mathematical area that studies shapes -- to create representations of data. In particular, in persistent homology, one studies one-parameter families of spaces associated with data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Guido Montúfar , Nina Otter , Yuguang Wang

This paper introduces persistent homology, which is a powerful tool to characterize the shape of data using the mathematical concept of topology. We explain the fundamental idea of persistent homology from scratch using some examples. We…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Ippei Obayashi , Takenobu Nakamura , Yasuaki Hiraoka

In computer vision, keypoint detection is a fundamental task, with applications spanning from robotics to image retrieval; however, existing learning-based methods suffer from scale dependency and lack flexibility. This paper introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Giovanni Barbarani , Francesco Vaccarino , Gabriele Trivigno , Marco Guerra , Gabriele Berton , Carlo Masone

Node2vec is a graph embedding method that learns a vector representation for each node of a weighted graph while seeking to preserve relative proximity and global structure. Numerical experiments suggest Node2vec struggles to recreate the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-18 Yasuaki Hiraoka , Yusuke Imoto , Killian Meehan , Théo Lacombe , Toshiaki Yachimura

Topology applied to real world data using persistent homology has started to find applications within machine learning, including deep learning. We present a differentiable topology layer that computes persistent homology based on level set…

Supervised machine learning pipelines trained on features derived from persistent homology have been experimentally observed to ignore much of the information contained in a persistence diagram. Computing persistence diagrams is often the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-11 Nicole Abreu , Parker B. Edwards , Francis Motta

A topos theoretic generalisation of the category of sets allows for modelling spaces which vary according to time intervals. Persistent homology, or more generally, persistence is a central tool in topological data analysis, which examines…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2015-06-23 João Pita Costa , Mikael Vejdemo Johansson , Primož Škraba

In this paper we examine the use of topological methods for multivariate statistics. Using persistent homology from computational algebraic topology, a random sample is used to construct estimators of persistent homology. This estimation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Peter Bubenik , Gunnar Carlsson , Peter T. Kim , Zhiming Luo

Finding an optimal parameter of a black-box function is important for searching stable material structures and finding optimal neural network structures, and Bayesian optimization algorithms are widely used for the purpose. However, most of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Tatsuya Shiraishi , Tam Le , Hisashi Kashima , Makoto Yamada

Persistent homology barcodes and diagrams are a cornerstone of topological data analysis that capture the "shape" of a wide range of complex data structures, such as point clouds, networks, and functions. However, their use in statistical…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Qiquan Wang , Inés García-Redondo , Pierre Faugère , Gregory Henselman-Petrusek , Anthea Monod

Topological Data Analysis (TDA), a relatively new field of data analysis, has proved very useful in a variety of applications. The main persistence tool from TDA is persistent homology in which data structure is examined at many scales.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-21 Megan Johnson , Jae-Hun Jung

Persistent homology is a technique recently developed in algebraic and computational topology well-suited to analysing structure in complex, high-dimensional data. In this paper, we exposit the theory of persistent homology from first…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-30 Matthew Pietrosanu

Topological data analysis can extract effective information from higher-dimensional data. Its mathematical basis is persistent homology. The persistent homology can calculate topological features at different spatiotemporal scales of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-09-29 Dinghua Shi , Zhifeng Chen , Chuang Ma , Guanrong Chen

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

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 propose a practical computational framework for detecting structural changes in parameter-dependent topological data. In many applications, such as time-series data analysis, anomaly detection, and monitoring of systems under changing…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Satoshi Kanno , Rei Nishimura , Hiroshi Yamauchi , Yoshi-aki Shimada

This paper is a survey of persistent homology, primarily as it is used in topological data analysis. It includes the theory of persistence modules, as well as stability theorems for persistence barcodes, generalized persistence,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Gunnar Carlsson

Inferring topological and geometrical information from data can offer an alternative perspective on machine learning problems. Methods from topological data analysis, e.g., persistent homology, enable us to obtain such information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Christoph Hofer , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Andreas Uhl