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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

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

Graphs are a basic tool for the representation of modern data. The richness of the topological information contained in a graph goes far beyond its mere interpretation as a one-dimensional simplicial complex. We show how topological…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-11 Mattia G. Bergomi , Massimo Ferri , Lorenzo Zuffi

Using a set of $\Lambda$CDM simulations of cosmic structure formation, we study the evolving connectivity and changing topological structure of the cosmic web using state-of-the-art tools of multiscale topological data analysis (TDA). We…

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

Scientific time series often encode predictive geometric structure, including connectivity, cycles, shell-like geometry, directional changes, and nonlinear neighborhoods, that standard dot-product attention does not explicitly represent. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Usef Faghihi , Amir Saki

This paper presents a mathematically rigorous framework for brain-inspired representation learning founded on the interplay between persistent topological structures and cohomological flows. Neural computation is reformulated as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Preksha Girish , Rachana Mysore , Mahanthesha U , Shrey Kumar , Shipra Prashant

The application of network techniques to the analysis of neural data has greatly improved our ability to quantify and describe these rich interacting systems. Among many important contributions, networks have proven useful in identifying…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-14 Ann E. Sizemore , Jennifer Phillips-Cremins , Robert Ghrist , Danielle S. Bassett

Sparse systems are usually parameterized by a tuning parameter that determines the sparsity of the system. How to choose the right tuning parameter is a fundamental and difficult problem in learning the sparse system. In this paper, by…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-01-18 Moo K. Chung , Jamie L. Hanson , Jieping Ye , Richard J. Davidson , Seth D. Pollak

Recent work in the information sciences, especially informetrics and scientometrics, has made substantial contributions to the development of new metrics that eschew the intrinsic biases of citation metrics. This work has tended to employ…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Himanshu Yadav , Thomas Bryan Smith , Peter Bubenik , Christopher McCarty

Different cell types aggregate and sort into hierarchical architectures during the formation of animal tissues. The resulting spatial organization depends (in part) on the strength of adhesion of one cell type to itself relative to other…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-02 Dhananjay Bhaskar , William Y. Zhang , Alexandria Volkening , Björn Sandstede , Ian Y. Wong

Topological data analysis provides a multiscale description of the geometry and topology of quantitative data. The persistence landscape is a topological summary that can be easily combined with tools from statistics and machine learning.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Peter Bubenik , Pawel Dlotko

We introduce a method for training neural networks to perform image or volume segmentation in which prior knowledge about the topology of the segmented object can be explicitly provided and then incorporated into the training process. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 James R. Clough , Nicholas Byrne , Ilkay Oksuz , Veronika A. Zimmer , Julia A. Schnabel , Andrew P. King

Digital images enable quantitative analysis of material properties at micro and macro length scales, but choosing an appropriate resolution when acquiring the image is challenging. A high resolution means longer image acquisition and larger…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Teresa Heiss , Sarah Tymochko , Brittany Story , Adélie Garin , Hoa Bui , Bea Bleile , Vanessa Robins

The topology of an object describes global properties that are insensitive to local perturbations. Classic examples include string knots and the genus (number of handles) of a surface: no manipulation of a closed string short of cutting it…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-01-15 Nathan Schine , Michelle Chalupnik , Tankut Can , Andrey Gromov , Jonathan Simon

Persistent homology (PH) is a popular tool for topological data analysis that has found applications across diverse areas of research. It provides a rigorous method to compute robust topological features in discrete experimental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Manu Aggarwal , Vipul Periwal

Graph embeddings play a critical role in graph representation learning, allowing machine learning models to explore and interpret graph-structured data. However, existing methods often rely on opaque, high-dimensional embeddings, limiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Astrit Tola , Funmilola Mary Taiwo , Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora , Baris Coskunuzer

Persistent homology computes the multiscale topology of a data set by using a sequence of discrete complexes. In this paper, we propose that persistent homology may be a useful tool for studying the structure of the landscape of string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-24 Alex Cole , Gary Shiu

The topological analysis of four-dimensional (4D) image-type data is challenged by the immense size that these datasets can reach. This can render the direct application of methods, like persistent homology and convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Khalil Mathieu Hannouch , Stephan Chalup

The theory of persistence modules is an emerging field of algebraic topology which originated in topological data analysis. In these notes we provide a concise introduction into this field and give an account on some of its interactions…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Leonid Polterovich , Daniel Rosen , Karina Samvelyan , Jun Zhang