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Complex systems are difficult to study not only because they are nonlinear, multiscale, and often nonstationary, but because their scientifically relevant organization is often invisible at the level of individual components, pairwise…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-30 Mark M. Bailey

Persistent homology provides a robust methodology to infer topological structures from point cloud data. Here we explore the persistent homology of point clouds embedded into a probabilistic setting, exploiting the theory of point…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-07 Daniel Spitz , Anna Wienhard

Data quality is crucial for the successful training, generalization and performance of machine learning models. We propose to measure the quality of a subset concerning the dataset it represents, using topological data analysis techniques.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Álvaro Torras-Casas , Eduardo Paluzo-Hidalgo , Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz

A fundamental tool in topological data analysis is persistent homology, which allows extraction of information from complex datasets in a robust way. Persistent homology assigns a module over a principal ideal domain to a one-parameter…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Heather A. Harrington , Nina Otter , Hal Schenck , Ulrike Tillmann

Topological data analysis can extract effective information from higher-dimensional data. Its mathematical basis is persistent homology. The persistent homology can calculate topological features at different spatiotemporal scales of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-09-29 Dinghua Shi , Zhifeng Chen , Chuang Ma , Guanrong Chen

Designing the topology of three-dimensional structures is a challenging problem due to its memory and time consumption. In this paper, we present a robust and efficient algorithm for solving large-scale 3D topology optimization problems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Alfredo Vitorino , Francisco A. M. Gomes

Visualization in the emerging field of topological data analysis has progressed from persistence barcodes and persistence diagrams to display of two-parameter persistent homology. Although persistence barcodes and diagrams have permitted…

Applications · Statistics 2019-01-08 Raoul R. Wadhwa , Andrew Dhawan , Drew F. K. Williamson , Jacob G. Scott

A topology preserving skeleton is a synthetic representation of an object that retains its topology and many of its significant morphological properties. The process of obtaining the skeleton, referred to as skeletonization or thinning, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Paweł Dłotko , Ruben Specogna

Path-following algorithms are frequently used in composite optimization problems where a series of subproblems, with varying regularization hyperparameters, are solved sequentially. By reusing the previous solutions as initialization,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Eugene Ndiaye , Ichiro Takeuchi

Algorithms for persistent homology and zigzag persistent homology are well-studied for persistence modules where homomorphisms are induced by inclusion maps. In this paper, we propose a practical algorithm for computing persistence under…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-03-26 Tamal K. Dey , Fengtao Fan , Yusu Wang

In this work, we develop a pipeline that associates Persistence Diagrams to digital data via the most appropriate filtration for the type of data considered. Using a grid search approach, this pipeline determines optimal representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Francesco Conti , Davide Moroni , Maria Antonietta Pascali

We propose a novel approach for preserving topological structures of the input space in latent representations of autoencoders. Using persistent homology, a technique from topological data analysis, we calculate topological signatures of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Michael Moor , Max Horn , Bastian Rieck , Karsten Borgwardt

Computing an optimal cycle in a given homology class, also referred to as the homology localization problem, is known to be an NP-hard problem in general. Furthermore, there is currently no known optimality criterion that localizes classes…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Amritendu Dhar , Vijay Natarajan , Abhishek Rathod

Biological and physical systems often exhibit distinct structures at different spatial/temporal scales. Persistent homology is an algebraic tool that provides a mathematical framework for analyzing the multi-scale structures frequently…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Jonathan Jaquette , Miroslav Kramár

In recent years, the use of data-driven methods has provided insights into underlying patterns and principles behind culinary recipes. In this exploratory work, we introduce the use of topological data analysis, especially persistent…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-17 Emerson G. Escolar , Yuta Shimada , Masahiro Yuasa

Homology features of spaces which appear in applications, for instance 3D meshes, are among the most important topological properties of these objects. Given a non-trivial cycle in a homology class, we consider the problem of computing a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Erin Wolf Chambers , Salman Parsa , Hannah Schreiber

Persistent homology is a natural tool for probing the topological characteristics of weighted graphs, essentially focusing on their $0$-dimensional homology. While this area has been substantially studied, we present a new approach to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Omer Bobrowski , Primoz Skraba

We propose randomized subspace gradient methods for high-dimensional constrained optimization. While there have been similarly purposed studies on unconstrained optimization problems, there have been few on constrained optimization problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Ryota Nozawa , Pierre-Louis Poirion , Akiko Takeda

In this article we establish two fundamental results for the sublevel set persistent homology for stationary processes indexed by the positive integers. The first is a strong law of large numbers for the persistence diagram (treated as a…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Andrew M. Thomas

We extend the persistence algorithm, viewed as an algorithm computing the homology of a complex of free persistence or graded modules, to complexes of modules that are not free. We replace persistence modules by their presentations and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Tamal K. Dey , Florian Russold , Shreyas N. Samaga