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Comparison of graph structure is a ubiquitous task in data analysis and machine learning, with diverse applications in fields such as neuroscience, cyber security, social network analysis, and bioinformatics, among others. Discovery and…

Applications · Statistics 2023-01-11 Peter Wills , Francois G. Meyer

Metric graphs are ubiquitous in science and engineering. For example, many data are drawn from hidden spaces that are graph-like, such as the cosmic web. A metric graph offers one of the simplest yet still meaningful ways to represent the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Tamal K. Dey , Dayu Shi , Yusu Wang

The Reeb graph of a scalar function defined on a domain gives a topologically meaningful summary of that domain. Reeb graphs have been shown in the past decade to be of great importance in geometric processing, image processing, computer…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Mustafa Hajij , Paul Rosen

Searching topological similarity between a pair of shapes or data is an important problem in data analysis and visualization. The problem of computing similarity measures using scalar topology has been studied extensively and proven useful…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Tripti Agarwal , Yashwanth Ramamurthi , Amit Chattopadhyay

Data consisting of a graph with a function mapping into $\mathbb{R}^d$ arise in many data applications, encompassing structures such as Reeb graphs, geometric graphs, and knot embeddings. As such, the ability to compare and cluster such…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Erin W. Chambers , Elizabeth Munch , Sarah Percival , Bei Wang

Due to their capacity to encode rich structural information, labeled graphs are often used for modeling various kinds of objects such as images, molecules, and chemical compounds. If pattern recognition problems such as clustering and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-02 David B. Blumenthal

Analogs of Reed-Solomon codes are introduced within the framework of bottleneck poset metrics. These codes are proven to be maximum distance separable. Furthermore, the results are extended to the setting of Algebraic Geometry codes.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mahir Bilen Can , Dillon Montero , Ferruh Özbudak

A geometric graph is a combinatorial graph, endowed with a geometry that is inherited from its embedding in a Euclidean space. Formulation of a meaningful measure of (dis-)similarity in both the combinatorial and geometric structures of two…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Sushovan Majhi , Carola Wenk

A matrix $S=(s_{ij})\in{\mathbb R}^{n\times n}$ is said to determine a \emph{transitional measure} for a digraph $G$ on $n$ vertices if for all $i,j,k\in\{1,\...,n\},$ the \emph{transition inequality} $s_{ij} s_{jk}\le s_{ik} s_{jj}$ holds…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-09-21 Pavel Chebotarev

Reeb graphs are simple topological descriptors with applications in many areas like topological data analysis and computational geometry. Despite their prevalence, visualization of Reeb graphs has received less attention. In this paper, we…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Erin Chambers , Brittany Terese Fasy , Erfan Hosseini Sereshgi , Maarten Löffler

To investigate the topological structure of planar polygon decomposition on trapezoids, which is formed by height functions. We use the oriented Reeb graph of the function with a marked vertex. We describe all possible optimal Reeb graphs…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Oleksandr Pryshliak , Karolina Haieva

Geometric graphs appear in many real-world data sets, such as road networks, sensor networks, and molecules. We investigate the notion of distance between embedded graphs and present a metric to measure the distance between two geometric…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Erin Wolf Chambers , Elizabeth Munch , Sarah Percival , Xinyi Wang

The interleaving distance is arguably the most prominent distance measure in topological data analysis. In this paper, we provide bounds on the computational complexity of determining the interleaving distance in several settings. We show…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Håvard Bakke Bjerkevik , Magnus Bakke Botnan

In this article, we study the question of the statistical convergence of the 1-dimensional Mapper to its continuous analogue, the Reeb graph. We show that the Mapper is an optimal estimator of the Reeb graph, which gives, as a byproduct, a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Mathieu Carrière , Bertrand Michel , Steve Oudot

The extended persistence diagram is an invariant of piecewise linear functions, which is known to be stable under perturbations of functions with respect to the bottleneck distance as introduced by Cohen-Steiner, Edelsbrunner, and Harer. We…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Ulrich Bauer , Magnus Bakke Botnan , Benedikt Fluhr

This paper is concerned with long-time interest of us, especially, the author, in realizing graphs as Reeb graphs of real algebraic functions of certain nice classes. The Reeb graph of a differentiable function is the set consisting of all…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Naoki Kitazawa

We study the question of approximating a compact geodesic metric space by metric graphs satisfying a uniform upper bound on their first Betti number. We prove that, up to a suitable multiplicative constant, Reeb graphs of distance functions…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Facundo Memoli , Osman Berat Okutan , Qingsong Wang

Graph embeddings have emerged as a powerful tool for representing complex network structures in a low-dimensional space, enabling the use of efficient methods that employ the metric structure in the embedding space as a proxy for the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Radosław Nowak , Adam Małkowski , Daniel Cieślak , Piotr Sokół , Paweł Wawrzyński

We present an exact and efficient algorithm for computing the Reeb space of a bivariate PL map. The Reeb space is a topological structure that generalizes the Reeb graph to the setting of multiple scalar-valued functions defined over a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Petar Hristov , Ingrid Hotz , Talha Bin Masood

The Reeb space is a fundamental data structure in computational topology that represents the fiber topology of a multi-field (or multiple scalar fields), extending the level set topology of a scalar field. Efficient algorithms have been…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Amit Chattopadhyay , Yashwanth Ramamurthi , Osamu Saeki