English
Related papers

Related papers: From Geometry to Topology: Inverse Theorems for Di…

200 papers

Topological data analysis (TDA) delivers invaluable and complementary information on the intrinsic properties of data inaccessible to conventional methods. However, high computational costs remain the primary roadblock hindering the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora , Murat Kantarcioglu , Yulia R. Gel , Baris Coskunuzer

\v{C}ech Persistence diagrams (PDs) are topological descriptors routinely used to capture the geometry of complex datasets. They are commonly compared using the Wasserstein distances $OT_{p}$; however, the extent to which PDs are stable…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Charles Arnal , David Cohen-Steiner , Vincent Divol

Persistent Topology studies topological features of shapes by analyzing the lower level sets of suitable functions, called filtering functions, and encoding the arising information in a parameterized version of the Betti numbers, i.e. the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2010-05-05 Andrea Cerri , Patrizio Frosini

A central problem in data-driven scientific inquiry is how to interpret structure in noisy, high-dimensional data. Topological data analysis (TDA) provides a solution via persistent homology, which encodes features of interest as…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Christian Lentz , Gregory Henselman-Petrusek , Lori Ziegelmeier

The alpha complex efficiently computes persistent homology of a point cloud $X$ in Euclidean space when the dimension $d$ is low. Given a subset $A$ of $X$, relative persistent homology can be computed as the persistent homology of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Nello Blaser , Morten Brun

The manifold hypothesis, which assumes that data lies on or close to an unknown manifold of low intrinsic dimension, is a staple of modern machine learning research. However, recent work has shown that real-world data exhibits distinct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Julius von Rohrscheidt , Bastian Rieck

We start with a simple introduction to topological data analysis where the most popular tool is called a persistent diagram. Briefly, a persistent diagram is a multiset of points in the plane describing the persistence of topological…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Christophe Biscio , Jesper Møller

The theory of multidimensional persistence captures the topology of a multifiltration -- a multiparameter family of increasing spaces. Multifiltrations arise naturally in the topological analysis of scientific data. In this paper, we give a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-11-22 Gunnar Carlsson , Gurjeet Singh , Afra Zomorodian

The intrinsic connection between lattice theory and topology is fairly well established, For instance, the collection of open subsets of a topological subspace always forms a distributive lattice. Persistent homology has been one of the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2014-02-03 Primož Škraba , João Pita Costa

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a rising field of computational topology in which the topological structure of a data set can be observed by persistent homology. By considering a sequence of sublevel sets, one obtains a filtration that…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-17 Yu-Min Chung , William Cruse , Austin Lawson

Distributions, i.e., subsets of tangent bundles formed by piecing together subspaces of tangent spaces, are commonly encountered in the theory and application of differential geometry. Indeed, the theory of distributions is a fundamental…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Andrew D. Lewis

Latent space matching, which consists of matching distributions of features in latent space, is a crucial component for tasks such as adversarial attacks and defenses, domain adaptation, and generative modelling. Metrics for probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Hiu-Tung Wong , Darrick Lee , Hong Yan

The theory of pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems is extended to the case of a directed network. Due to the structure of the network Laplacian of the scrutinised system, the dispersion relation has both real and imaginary parts,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-08-01 Malbor Asllani , Joseph D. Challenger , Francesco Saverio Pavone , Leonardo Sacconi , Duccio Fanelli

Although there is no doubt that multi-parameter persistent homology is a useful tool to analyse multi-variate data, efficient ways to compute these modules are still lacking in the available topological data analysis toolboxes. Other issues…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-04-15 Asilata Bapat , Robyn Brooks , Celia Hacker , Claudia Landi , Barbara I. Mahler

We define a class of invariants, which we call homological invariants, for persistence modules over a finite poset. Informally, a homological invariant is one that respects some homological data and takes values in the free abelian group…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-08-26 Benjamin Blanchette , Thomas Brüstle , Eric J. Hanson

High-dimensional reduction methods are powerful tools for describing the main patterns in big data. One of these methods is the topological data analysis (TDA), which modeling the shape of the data in terms of topological properties. This…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-24 Sarit Agami

A map $f:X\to Y$ between topological spaces is defined to be {\em scatteredly continuous} if for each subspace $A\subset X$ the restriction $f|A$ has a point of continuity. We show that for a function $f:X\to Y$ from a perfectly paracompact…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-10-11 T. Banakh , B. Bokalo

Topological transforms are parametrized families of topological invariants, which, by analogy with transforms in signal processing, are much more discriminative than single measurements. The first two topological transforms to be defined…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Clément Maria , Steve Oudot , Elchanan Solomon

Persistent homology provides a robust methodology to infer topological structures from point cloud data. Here we explore the persistent homology of point clouds embedded into a probabilistic setting, exploiting the theory of point…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-07 Daniel Spitz , Anna Wienhard

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