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We introduce a subsampling method for topological data analysis based on strong collapses of simplicial complexes. Given a point cloud and a scale parameter $\delta$, we construct a subsampling that preserves both global and local…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Elias Gabriel Minian

Topological data analysis (TDA) provides insight into data shape. The summaries obtained by these methods are principled global descriptions of multi-dimensional data whilst exhibiting stable properties such as robustness to deformation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Ali Zia , Abdelwahed Khamis , James Nichols , Zeeshan Hayder , Vivien Rolland , Lars Petersson

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a rigorous framework that borrows techniques from geometric and algebraic topology, category theory, and combinatorics in order to study the "shape" of such complex high-dimensional data. Research in this…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-04-15 R. W. R. Darling , John A. Emanuello , Emilie Purvine , Ahmad Ridley

The study of topology is strictly speaking, a topic in pure mathematics. However in only a few years, Topological Data Analysis (TDA), which refers to methods of utilizing topological features in data (such as connected components, tunnels,…

Applications · Statistics 2019-09-25 Nalini Ravishanker , Renjie Chen

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a rising branch in modern applied mathematics. It extracts topological structures as features of a given space and uses these features to analyze digital data. Persistent homology, one of the central tools…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Chuan-Shen Hu

In a world abundant with diverse data arising from complex acquisition techniques, there is a growing need for new data analysis methods. In this paper we focus on high-dimensional data that are organized into several hierarchical datasets.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Lior Aloni , Omer Bobrowski , Ronen Talmon

We use topological data analysis (TDA) to study how data transforms as it passes through successive layers of a deep neural network (DNN). We compute the persistent homology of the activation data for each layer of the network and summarize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Matthew Wheeler , Jose Bouza , Peter Bubenik

Analyzing flight trajectory data sets poses challenges due to the intricate interconnections among various factors and the high dimensionality of the data. Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a way of analyzing big data sets focusing on the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Manuel Cuerno , Luis Guijarro , Rosa María Arnaldo Valdés , Fernando Gómez Comendador

Exploring the shape of point configurations has been a key driver in the evolution of TDA (short for topological data analysis) since its infancy. This survey illustrates the recent efforts to broaden these ideas to model spatial…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Sebastiano Cultrera di Montesano , Ondrej Draganov , Herbert Edelsbrunner , Morteza Saghafian

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a novel, and relatively new approach to analysing high-dimensional data sets. It does this by focussing on global properties like the shape and connectivity of the data giving it a significant advantage…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-26 Jeff Murugan , Duncan Robertson

In topological data analysis (TDA), one often studies the shape of data by constructing a filtered topological space, whose structure is then examined using persistent homology. However, a single filtered space often does not adequately…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Magnus Bakke Botnan , Michael Lesnick

Spatial networks are ubiquitous in social, geographical, physical, and biological applications. To understand the large-scale structure of networks, it is important to develop methods that allow one to directly probe the effects of space on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Michelle Feng , Mason A. Porter

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) allows us to extract powerful topological and higher-order information on the global shape of a data set or point cloud. Tools like Persistent Homology or the Euler Transform give a single complex description…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Vincent P. Grande , Michael T. Schaub

Persistent Homology is a powerful tool in Topological Data Analysis (TDA) to capture topological properties of data succinctly at different spatial resolutions. For graphical data, shape, and structure of the neighborhood of individual data…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Sumit Bhatia , Bapi Chatterjee , Deepak Nathani , Manohar Kaul

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) studies the shape of data. A common topological descriptor is the persistence diagram, which encodes topological features in a topological space at different scales. Turner, Mukeherjee, and Boyer showed that…

Surface roughness plays an important role in analyzing engineering surfaces. It quantifies the surface topography and can be used to determine whether the resulting surface finish is acceptable or not. Nevertheless, while several existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Melih C. Yesilli , Firas A. Khasawneh

This paper introduces advanced techniques of Topological Data Analysis (TDA) for unsupervised anomaly detection and customer segmentation in banking data. Using the Mapper algorithm and persistent homology, we develop unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Leonardo Aldo Alejandro Barberi , Linda Maria De Cave

Topological data analysis refers to approaches for systematically and reliably computing abstract ``shapes'' of complex data sets. There are various applications of topological data analysis in life and data sciences, with growing interest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Daniel Leykam , Dimitris G. Angelakis

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a recent approach to analyze data sets from the perspective of their topological structure. Its use for time series data has been limited to the field of financial time series primarily and as a method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Rodrigo Rivera-Castro , Polina Pilyugina , Alexander Pletnev , Ivan Maksimov , Wanyi Wyz , Evgeny Burnaev

We provide a short introduction to the field of topological data analysis and discuss its possible relevance for the study of complex systems. Topological data analysis provides a set of tools to characterise the shape of data, in terms of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-12-05 Vsevolod Salnikov , Daniele Cassese , Renaud Lambiotte