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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

The use of graph neural networks has produced significant advances in point cloud problems, such as those found in high energy physics. The question of how to produce a graph structure in these problems is usually treated as a matter of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Daniel Murnane

Topological methods have the potential of exploring data clouds without making assumptions on their the structure. Here we propose a hierarchical topological clustering algorithm that can be implemented with any distance choice. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ana Carpio , Gema Duro

Persistent homology has recently emerged as a powerful technique in topological data analysis for analyzing the emergence and disappearance of topological features throughout a filtered space, shown via persistence diagrams. Additionally,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-12-16 Nicholas A. Scoville , Karthik Yegnesh

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is an emergent field that aims to discover topological information hidden in a dataset. TDA tools have been commonly used to create filters and topological descriptors to improve Machine Learning (ML)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Rolando Kindelan , José Frías , Mauricio Cerda , Nancy Hitschfeld

We propose two related unsupervised clustering algorithms which, for input, take data assumed to be sampled from a uniform distribution supported on a metric space $X$, and output a clustering of the data based on the selection of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Antonio Rieser

Most statistical models for networks focus on pairwise interactions between nodes. However, many real-world networks involve higher-order interactions among multiple nodes, such as co-authors collaborating on a paper. Hypergraphs provide a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-16 Yichao Chen , Jingfei Zhang , Ji Zhu

Topological features based on persistent homology capture high-order structural information so as to augment graph neural network methods. However, computing extended persistent homology summaries remains slow for large and dense graphs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Zuoyu Yan , Tengfei Ma , Liangcai Gao , Zhi Tang , Yusu Wang , Chao Chen

Intersection homology is a topological invariant which detects finer information in a space than ordinary homology. Using ideas from classical simple homotopy theory, we construct local combinatorial transformations on simplicial complexes…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Markus Banagl , Tim Mäder , Filip Sadlo

Persistent homology is constrained to purely topological persistence while multiscale graphs account only for geometric information. This work introduces persistent spectral theory to create a unified low-dimensional multiscale paradigm for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-13 Rui Wang , Duc Duy Nguyen , Guo-Wei Wei

Graphs serve as powerful tools for modeling pairwise interactions in diverse fields such as biology, material science, and social networks. However, they inherently overlook interactions involving more than two entities. Simplicial…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Xiang Liu , Ran Liu , Jingyan Li , Rongling Wu , Jie Wu

Persistent homology computes topological invariants from point cloud data. Recent work has focused on developing statistical methods for data analysis in this framework. We show that, in certain models, parametric inference can be performed…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-06-19 Kevin Emmett , Daniel Rosenbloom , Pablo Camara , Raul Rabadan

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

Using the path lattice cohomology we provide a conceptual topological characterization of the geometric genus for certain complex normal surface singularities with rational homology sphere links, which is uniformly valid for all…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-27 András Némethi , Baldur Sigurðsson

We adapt the study of hyperspaces and function spaces from classical topology to digital topology. We define digital hyperspaces and digital function graphs, and study some of their relationships and graphical properties.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Laurence Boxer

We introduce a persistent Hochschild homology framework for directed graphs. Hochschild homology groups of (path algebras of) directed graphs vanish in degree $i\geq 2$. To extend them to higher degrees, we introduce the notion of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Luigi Caputi , Henri Riihimäki

Traditional graph analysis focuses on nodes and edges, that is, pairwise relationships. Yet many real-world networks, including biological, social, and communication networks, involve higher-order relationships in which multiple nodes…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Heitor Baldo , Luiz A. Baccalá , André Fujita , Koichi Sameshima

The effectiveness of Spatio-temporal Graph Neural Networks (STGNNs) in time-series applications is often limited by their dependence on fixed, hand-crafted input graph structures. Motivated by insights from the Topological Data Analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Viet The Nguyen , Duy Anh Pham , An Thai Le , Jans Peter , Gunther Gust

In this survey, we explore recent literature on finding the cores of higher graphs using geometric and topological means. We study graphs, hypergraphs, and simplicial complexes, all of which are models of higher graphs. We study the notion…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Inés García-Redondo , Claudia Landi , Sarah Percival , Anda Skeja , Bei Wang , Ling Zhou

The continuous and rapid growth of highly interconnected datasets, which are both voluminous and complex, calls for the development of adequate processing and analytical techniques. One method for condensing and simplifying such datasets is…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Angela Bonifati , Stefania Dumbrava , Haridimos Kondylakis