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Traditional econometric analyzes represent observations as vectors despite the inherent complexity of empirical data structures. When data are organized along dual classification dimensions, a matrix representation provides a more natural…

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Computational topology has recently known an important development toward data analysis, giving birth to the field of topological data analysis. Topological persistence, or persistent homology, appears as a fundamental tool in this field.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-28 Frédéric Chazal , Marc Glisse , Catherine Labruère , Bertrand Michel

We propose a statistical method to test whether two phylogenetic trees with given alignments are significantly incongruent. Our method compares the two distributions of phylogenetic trees given by the input alignments, instead of comparing…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2010-04-14 Elissaveta Arnaoudova , David Haws , Peter Huggins , Jerzy W. Jaromczyk , Neil Moore , Chris Schardl , Ruriko Yoshida

We introduce top trees as a design of a new simpler interface for data structures maintaining information in a fully-dynamic forest. We demonstrate how easy and versatile they are to use on a host of different applications. For example, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Stephen Alstrup , Jacob Holm , Kristian de Lichtenberg , Mikkel Thorup

Model merging enables powerful capabilities in neural networks without requiring additional training. In this paper, we introduce a novel perspective on model merging by leveraging the fundamental mechanisms of neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Haiquan Qiu , You Wu , Dong Li , Jianmin Guo , Quanming Yao

Humans recognize object structure from both their appearance and motion; often, motion helps to resolve ambiguities in object structure that arise when we observe object appearance only. There are particular scenarios, however, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Tianfan Xue , Jiajun Wu , Zhoutong Zhang , Chengkai Zhang , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , William T. Freeman

The topological (or graph) structures of real-world networks are known to be predictive of multiple dynamic properties of the networks. Conventionally, a graph structure is represented using an adjacency matrix or a set of hand-crafted…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-21 Cheng Li , Xiaoxiao Guo , Qiaozhu Mei

Counting non-isomorphic tree-like multigraphs that include self-loops and multiple edges is an important problem in combinatorial enumeration, with applications in chemical graph theory, polymer science, and network modeling. Traditional…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Naveed Ahmed Azam , Seemab Hayat

In neuroimaging, extensive post-processing of resting-state functional MRI (rfMRI) data is necessary for its application and investigation in relation to brain-behavior associations. Such post-processing is used to derive brain…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ty Easley , Kevin Freese , Elizabeth Munch , Janine Bijsterbosch

Treemaps have been used in information visualisation for over two decades. They make use of nested filled areas to represent information hierarchies such as file systems, library catalogues, etc. Recent years have witnessed the emergence of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Patrick Cheong-Iao Pang , Robert P. Biuk-Aghai , Simon Fong , Yain-Whar Si

This is a survey article on trees, with a modest number of proofs to give a flavor of the way these topologies can be efficiently handled. Trees are defined in set-theorist fashion as partially ordered sets in which the elements below each…

General Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter J. Nyikos

Recently, harmonic functions and frequently universal harmonic functions on a tree $T$ have been studied, taking values on a separable Fr\'{e}chet space $E$ over the field $\mathbb{C}$ or $\mathbb{R}$. In the present paper, we allow the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-06 N. Biehler , E. Nestoridi , V. Nestoridis

Neural networks encode inputs as high-dimensional vectors, known as representations, that capture how models process data by encoding task-relevant structure and semantics. Representation alignment refers to the degree to which different…

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Graph Signal Processing deals with the problem of analyzing and processing signals defined on graphs. In this paper, we introduce a novel filtering method for graph-based signals by employing ideas from topological data analysis. We begin…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Matias de Jong van Lier , Sebastián Elías Graiff Zurita , Shizuo Kaji

When dealing with tabular data, models based on decision trees are a popular choice due to their high accuracy on these data types, their ease of application, and explainability properties. However, when it comes to graph-structured data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Maya Bechler-Speicher , Amir Globerson , Ran Gilad-Bachrach

Long document classification presents challenges in capturing both local and global dependencies due to their extensive content and complex structure. Existing methods often struggle with token limits and fail to adequately model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Sudipta Singha Roy , Xindi Wang , Robert E. Mercer , Frank Rudzicz

A function on an algebra is congruence preserving if, for any congruence, it maps pairs of congruent elements onto pairs of congruent elements. We show that on the algebra of complete binary trees whose leaves are labeled by letters of an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-09 A. Arnold , P. Cegielski , S. Grigorieff , I. Guessarian

With distributed computing and mobile applications, synchronizing diverging replicas of data structures is a more and more common problem. We use algebraic methods to reason about filesystem operations, and introduce a simplified definition…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Elod Pal Csirmaz

We introduce a consistent estimator for the homology (an algebraic structure representing connected components and cycles) of level sets of both density and regression functions. Our method is based on kernel estimation. We apply this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Omer Bobrowski , Sayan Mukherjee , Jonathan E. Taylor