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We explore the recently introduced persistent reachability homology (PRH) of digraph data, i.e. data in the form of directed graphs. In particular, we study the effectiveness of PRH in network classification task in a key neuroscience…

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Topological data analysis (TDA) studies the shape patterns of data. Persistent homology is a widely used method in TDA that summarizes homological features of data at multiple scales and stores them in persistence diagrams (PDs). In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-16 Theodore Papamarkou , Farzana Nasrin , Austin Lawson , Na Gong , Orlando Rios , Vasileios Maroulas

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are a standard tool for computer vision tasks such as image classification. However, typical model architectures may result in the loss of topological information. In specific domains such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Shrunal Pothagoni , Benjamin Schweinhart

Mathematical morphology (MM) is a powerful and widely used framework in image processing. Through set-theoretic and discrete geometric principles, MM operations such as erosion, dilation, opening, and closing effectively manipulate digital…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Chuan-Shen Hu

Disobeying the classical wisdom of statistical learning theory, modern deep neural networks generalize well even though they typically contain millions of parameters. Recently, it has been shown that the trajectories of iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Tolga Birdal , Aaron Lou , Leonidas Guibas , Umut Şimşekli

Persistent homology is a popular technique in topological data analysis that tracks the lifespans of homological features in a nested sequence of spaces. This data is typically presented in a multi-set called a persistence diagram or a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Deni Salja

This work introduces a number of algebraic topology approaches, such as multicomponent persistent homology, multi-level persistent homology and electrostatic persistence for the representation, characterization, and description of small…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-02-07 Zixuan Cang , Lin Mu , Guowei Wei

This paper presents a mathematically rigorous framework for brain-inspired representation learning founded on the interplay between persistent topological structures and cohomological flows. Neural computation is reformulated as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Preksha Girish , Rachana Mysore , Mahanthesha U , Shrey Kumar , Shipra Prashant

Representation learning on graphs is a fundamental problem that can be crucial in various tasks. Graph neural networks, the dominant approach for graph representation learning, are limited in their representation power. Therefore, it can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Zuoyu Yan , Qi Zhao , Ze Ye , Tengfei Ma , Liangcai Gao , Zhi Tang , Yusu Wang , Chao Chen

Machine-learning potentials (MLPs) for atomistic simulations are a promising alternative to conventional classical potentials. Current approaches rely on descriptors of the local atomic environment with dimensions that increase…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-05 Nongnuch Artrith , Alexander Urban , Gerbrand Ceder

Tumor segmentation in whole-slide images of histology slides is an important step towards computer-assisted diagnosis. In this work, we propose a tumor segmentation framework based on the novel concept of persistent homology profiles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Talha Qaiser , Yee-Wah Tsang , Daiki Taniyama , Naoya Sakamoto , Kazuaki Nakane , David Epstein , Nasir Rajpoot

Periodic material or crystal property prediction using machine learning has grown popular in recent years as it provides a computationally efficient replacement for classical simulation methods. A crucial first step for any of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Jonathan Balasingham , Viktor Zamaraev , Vitaliy Kurlin

Topological data analysis involves the statistical characterization of the shape of data. Persistent homology is a primary tool of topological data analysis, which can be used to analyze topological features and perform statistical…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-01 Chul Moon , Nicole A. Lazar

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

Topological invariants have played a fundamental role in the advancement of theoretical high energy physics. Physicists have used several kinematic techniques to distinguish new physics predictions from the Standard Model (SM) of particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-18 Jyotiranjan Beuria

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 use persistent homology along with the eigenfunctions of the Laplacian to study similarity amongst triangulated 2-manifolds. Our method relies on studying the lower-star filtration induced by the eigenfunctions of the Laplacian. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-25 Yunhao Zhang , Haowen Liu , Paul Rosen , Mustafa Hajij

Machine learning for point clouds has been attracting much attention, with many applications in various fields, such as shape recognition and material science. For enhancing the accuracy of such machine learning methods, it is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Naoki Nishikawa , Yuichi Ike , Kenji Yamanishi

Persistence diagrams offer a way to summarize topological and geometric properties latent in datasets. While several methods have been developed that utilize persistence diagrams in statistical inference, a full Bayesian treatment remains…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-08-08 Vasileios Maroulas , Farzana Nasrin , Christopher Oballe

One of the grand challenges of utilizing machine learning for the discovery of innovative new polymers lies in the difficulty of accurately representing the complex structures of polymeric materials. Although a wide array of hand-designed…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-30 Evan R. Antoniuk , Peggy Li , Bhavya Kailkhura , Anna M. Hiszpanski