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Persistent homology is a central tool in topological data analysis, but its application to large and noisy datasets is often limited by computational cost and the presence of spurious topological features. Noise not only increases data size…

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Topological data analysis (TDA) has emerged as an effective approach in data science, with its key technique, persistent homology, rooted in algebraic topology. Although alternative approaches based on differential topology, geometric…

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Persistent homology is a cornerstone of topological data analysis, offering a multiscale summary of topology with robustness to nuisance transformations, such as rotations and small deformations. Persistent homology has seen broad use…

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