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The extension of persistent homology to multi-parameter setups is an algorithmic challenge. Since most computation tasks scale badly with the size of the input complex, an important pre-processing step consists of simplifying the input…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Ulderico Fugacci , Michael Kerber

Topological data analysis combines machine learning with methods from algebraic topology. Persistent homology, a method to characterize topological features occurring in data at multiple scales is of particular interest. A major obstacle to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-04-25 Nello Blaser , Morten Brun

Persistent homology is a popular tool in Topological Data Analysis. It provides numerical characteristics of data sets which reflect global geometric properties. In order to be useful in practice, for example for feature generation in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Boris Goldfarb

We aim to solve a topology optimization problem where the distribution of material in the design domain is represented by a density function. To obtain candidates for local minima, we want to solve the first order optimality system via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-08 P. Gangl , M. Winkler

Persistent homology is a mathematical tool used for studying the shape of data by extracting its topological features. It has gained popularity in network science due to its applicability in various network mining problems, including…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Mehmet Emin Aktas , Thu Nguyen , Rakin Riza , Muhammad Ifte Islam , Esra Akbas

In this paper we develop a novel Topological Data Analysis (TDA) approach for studying graph representations of time series of dynamical systems. Specifically, we show how persistent homology, a tool from TDA, can be used to yield a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-28 Audun Myers , Elizabeth Munch , Firas A. Khasawneh

In topology optimization, the state of structures is typically obtained by numerically evaluating a discretized PDE-based model. The degrees of freedom of such a model can be partitioned in free and prescribed sets to define the boundary…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Stijn Koppen , Matthijs Langelaar , Fred van Keulen

This paper introduces persistent homology, which is a powerful tool to characterize the shape of data using the mathematical concept of topology. We explain the fundamental idea of persistent homology from scratch using some examples. We…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Ippei Obayashi , Takenobu Nakamura , Yasuaki Hiraoka

Such modern applications of topology as data analysis and digital image analysis have to deal with noise and other uncertainty. In this environment, topological spaces often appear equipped with a real valued function. Persistence is a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2011-05-02 Peter Saveliev

Solving different types of optimization models (including parameters fitting) for support vector machines on large-scale training data is often an expensive computational task. This paper proposes a multilevel algorithmic framework that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-14 Talayeh Razzaghi , Ilya Safro

We use Topological Data Analysis tools for studying the inner organization of cells in segmented images of epithelial tissues. More specifically, for each segmented image, we compute different persistence barcodes, which codify lifetime of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 N. Atienza , M. J. Jimenez , M. Soriano-Trigueros

A suitable feature representation that can both preserve the data intrinsic information and reduce data complexity and dimensionality is key to the performance of machine learning models. Deeply rooted in algebraic topology, persistent…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-11-02 Chi Seng Pun , Kelin Xia , Si Xian Lee

The theory of multidimensional persistence captures the topology of a multifiltration -- a multiparameter family of increasing spaces. Multifiltrations arise naturally in the topological analysis of scientific data. In this paper, we give a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-11-22 Gunnar Carlsson , Gurjeet Singh , Afra Zomorodian

Persistence diagrams (PDs) are now routinely used to summarize the underlying topology of complex data. Despite several appealing properties, incorporating PDs in learning pipelines can be challenging because their natural geometry is not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-14 Théo Lacombe , Marco Cuturi , Steve Oudot

In this contribution, we present a numerical analysis of the continuous stochastic gradient (CSG) method, including applications from topology optimization and convergence rates. In contrast to standard stochastic gradient optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Max Grieshammer , Lukas Pflug , Michael Stingl , Andrian Uihlein

Many high-dimensional optimisation problems exhibit rich geometric structures in their set of minimisers, often forming smooth manifolds due to over-parametrisation or symmetries. When this structure is known, at least locally, it can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Evan Markou , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Stephen Gould

We propose a general technique for extracting a larger set of stable information from persistent homology computations than is currently done. The persistent homology algorithm is usually viewed as a procedure which starts with a filtered…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Paul Bendich , Peter Bubenik , Alexander Wagner

Identifying molecular signatures from complex disease patients with underlying symptomatic similarities is a significant challenge in the analysis of high dimensional multi-omics data. Topological data analysis (TDA) provides a way of…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-23 Davide Gurnari , Aldo Guzmán-Sáenz , Filippo Utro , Aritra Bose , Saugata Basu , Laxmi Parida

An algorithm is presented that constructs an acyclic partial matching on the cells of a given simplicial complex from a vector-valued function defined on the vertices and extended to each simplex by taking the least common upper bound of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Madjid Allili , Tomasz Kaczynski , Claudia Landi , Filippo Masoni

Information networks are becoming increasingly popular to capture complex relationships across various disciplines, such as social networks, citation networks, and biological networks. The primary challenge in this domain is measuring…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Mehmet Emin Aktas , Esra Akbas , Ahmed El Fatmaoui