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We describe a new methodology for studying persistence of topological features across a family of spaces or point-cloud data sets, called zigzag persistence. Building on classical results about quiver representations, zigzag persistence…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2008-12-02 Gunnar Carlsson , Vin de Silva

Computational topology provides a tool, persistent homology, to extract quantitative descriptors from structured objects (images, graphs, point clouds, etc). These descriptors can then be involved in optimization problems, typically as a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Mathieu Carriere , Yuichi Ike , Théo Lacombe , Naoki Nishikawa

Protein-ligand binding is a fundamental biological process that is paramount to many other biological processes, such as signal transduction, metabolic pathways, enzyme construction, cell secretion, gene expression, etc. Accurate prediction…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-03 Zixuan Cang , Guo-Wei Wei

Multiplexed imaging allows multiple cell types to be simultaneously visualised in a single tissue sample, generating unprecedented amounts of spatially-resolved, biological data. In topological data analysis, persistent homology provides…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-06 Maria Torras-Pérez , Iris H. R. Yoon , Praveen Weeratunga , Ling-Pei Ho , Helen M. Byrne , Ulrike Tillmann , Heather A. Harrington

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

Topological correctness is critical for segmentation of tubular structures, which pervade in biomedical images. Existing topological segmentation loss functions are primarily based on the persistent homology of the image. They match the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Bo Wen , Haochen Zhang , Dirk-Uwe G. Bartsch , William R. Freeman , Truong Q. Nguyen , Cheolhong An

This paper contains an expository account of persistent homology and its usefulness for topological data analysis. An alternative foundation for level-set persistence is presented using sheaves and cosheaves.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Justin Curry

We introduce a new feature map for barcodes that arise in persistent homology computation. The main idea is to first realize each barcode as a path in a convenient vector space, and to then compute its path signature which takes values in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-28 Ilya Chevyrev , Vidit Nanda , Harald Oberhauser

This paper is a cursory study on how topological features are preserved within the internal representations of neural network layers. Using techniques from topological data analysis, namely persistent homology, the topological features of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Archie Shahidullah

Link prediction is an important learning task for graph-structured data. In this paper, we propose a novel topological approach to characterize interactions between two nodes. Our topological feature, based on the extended persistent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Zuoyu Yan , Tengfei Ma , Liangcai Gao , Zhi Tang , Chao Chen

Information networks are becoming increasingly popular to capture complex relationships across various disciplines, such as social networks, citation networks, and biological networks. The primary challenge in this domain is measuring…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Mehmet Emin Aktas , Esra Akbas , Ahmed El Fatmaoui

Persistent homology is a popular data analysis technique that is used to capture the changing topology of a filtration associated with some simplicial complex $K$. These topological changes are summarized in persistence diagrams. We propose…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Tamal K. Dey , Ryan Slechta

In this paper we introduce a statistic, the persistent homology transform (PHT), to model surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ and shapes in $\mathbb{R}^2$. This statistic is a collection of persistence diagrams - multiscale topological summaries…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-16 Katharine Turner , Sayan Mukherjee , Doug M Boyer

Over the past two decades, topological data analysis has emerged as a field of applied mathematics with new applications and algorithmic developments appearing rapidly. Two fundamental computations in this field are persistent homology and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Gunnar Carlsson , Anjan Dwaraknath , Bradley J. Nelson

Understanding the biological function of knots in proteins and their folding process is an open and challenging question in biology. Recent studies classify the topology and geometry of knotted proteins by analysing the distribution of a…

Proteins are inherently multiscale physical systems whose functional properties emerge from coordinated structural organization across multiple spatial resolutions, ranging from atomic interactions to global fold topology. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Viet Thanh Duy Nguyen , John K. Johnstone , Truong-Son Hy

We propose a model that explains the hierarchical organization of proteins in fold families. The model, which is based on the evolutionary selection of proteins by their native state stability, reproduces patterns of amino acids conserved…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolay V. Dokholyan , Eugene I. Shakhnovich

Persistent homology (PH) is a recently developed theory in the field of algebraic topology to study shapes of datasets. It is an effective data analysis tool that is robust to noise and has been widely applied. We demonstrate a general…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Yu-Min Chung , Chuan-Shen Hu , Yu-Lun Lo , Hau-Tieng Wu

In persistent homology analysis, interval modules play a central role in describing the birth and death of topological features across a filtration. In this work, we extend this setting, and propose the use of bipath persistent homology,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Toshitaka Aoki , Emerson G. Escolar , Shunsuke Tada

This paper builds upon the fundamental work of Niwa et al. [34], which provides the unique possibility to analyze the relative aggregation/folding propensity of the elements of the entire Escherichia coli (E. coli) proteome in a cell-free…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-07-22 Lorenzo Livi , Alessandro Giuliani , Antonello Rizzi