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In this work we define a metric structure to compare functions defined on different merge trees. The metric introduced possesses some stability properties, which we illustrate within a standard topological data analysis (TDA) framework, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Matteo Pegoraro

Merge trees, a type of topological descriptor, serve to identify and summarize the topological characteristics associated with scalar fields. They present a great potential for the analysis and visualization of time-varying data. First,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Lin Yan , Talha Bin Masood , Farhan Rasheed , Ingrid Hotz , Bei Wang

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

In this paper, we present a flexible and probabilistic framework for tracking topological features in time-varying scalar fields using merge trees and partial optimal transport. Merge trees are topological descriptors that record the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Mingzhe Li , Xinyuan Yan , Lin Yan , Tom Needham , Bei Wang

In this paper we study functions on the interval that have the same persistent homology. By introducing an equivalence relation modeled after topological conjugacy, which we call graph-equivalence, a precise enumeration of functions with…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Justin Curry

In this work, we propose trait-based merge trees a generalization of merge trees to feature level sets, targeting the analysis of tensor field or general multi-variate data. For this, we employ the notion of traits defined in attribute…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Jochen Jankowai , Talha Bin Masood , Ingrid Hotz

Topological structures such as the merge tree provide an abstract and succinct representation of scalar fields. They facilitate effective visualization and interactive exploration of feature-rich data. A merge tree captures the topology of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Raghavendra Sridharamurthy , Talha Bin Masood , Adhitya Kamakshidasan , Vijay Natarajan

One of the primary areas of interest in applied algebraic topology is persistent homology, and, more specifically, the persistence diagram. Persistence diagrams have also become objects of interest in topological data analysis. However,…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-06 Eric Berry , Yen-Chi Chen , Jessi Cisewski-Kehe , Brittany Terese Fasy

We propose a tree-based algorithm for classification and regression problems in the context of functional data analysis, which allows to leverage representation learning and multiple splitting rules at the node level, reducing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-03 Edoardo Belli , Simone Vantini

Graph matching is an important and persistent problem in computer vision and pattern recognition for finding node-to-node correspondence between graph-structured data. However, as widely used, graph matching that incorporates pairwise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Fu-Dong Wang , Gui-Song Xia , Nan Xue , Yipeng Zhang , Marcello Pelillo

This paper introduces decorated merge trees (DMTs) as a novel invariant for persistent spaces. DMTs combine both $\pi_0$ and $H_n$ information into a single data structure that distinguishes filtrations that merge trees and persistent…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-29 Justin Curry , Haibin Hang , Washington Mio , Tom Needham , Osman Berat Okutan

New representations of tree-structured data objects, using ideas from topological data analysis, enable improved statistical analyses of a population of brain artery trees. A number of representations of each data tree arise from…

Applications · Statistics 2014-11-26 Paul Bendich , J. S. Marron , Ezra Miller , Alex Pieloch , Sean Skwerer

Merge trees are fundamental structures in topological data analysis. Interleaving distance is a widely accepted metric for comparing merge trees, with applications in visualization and scientific computing. While a greedy algorithm exists…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Elena Farahbakhsh Touli , Talha Bin Masood

This paper applies conformal prediction techniques to compute simultaneous prediction bands and clustering trees for functional data. These tools can be used to detect outliers and clusters. Both our prediction bands and clustering trees…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-02-27 Jing Lei , Alessandro Rinaldo , Larry Wasserman

Merge trees are a type of graph-based topological summary that tracks the evolution of connected components in the sublevel sets of scalar functions. They enjoy widespread applications in data analysis and scientific visualization. In this…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Ellen Gasparovic , Elizabeth Munch , Steve Oudot , Katharine Turner , Bei Wang , Yusu Wang

Merge trees are a valuable tool in the scientific visualization of scalar fields; however, current methods for merge tree comparisons are computationally expensive, primarily due to the exhaustive matching between tree nodes. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Yu Qin , Brittany Terese Fasy , Carola Wenk , Brian Summa

Phylogenetic mixtures model the inhomogeneous molecular evolution commonly observed in data. The performance of phylogenetic reconstruction methods where the underlying data is generated by a mixture model has stimulated considerable recent…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-06-30 Frederick A. Matsen , Mike Steel

Unsupervised representation learning methods are widely used for gaining insight into high-dimensional, unstructured, or structured data. In some cases, users may have prior topological knowledge about the data, such as a known cluster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Edith Heiter , Robin Vandaele , Tijl De Bie , Yvan Saeys , Jefrey Lijffijt

Feature tracking in time-varying scalar fields is a fundamental task in scientific computing. Topological descriptors, which summarize important features of data, have proved to be viable tools to facilitate this task. The merge tree is a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Son Le Thanh , Tino Weinkauf

We propose a representation of graph as a functional object derived from the power iteration of the underlying adjacency matrix. The proposed functional representation is a graph invariant, i.e., the functional remains unchanged under any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Anshumali Shrivastava , Ping Li
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