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This paper aims to discuss a method of quantifying the 'shape' of data, via a methodology called topological data analysis. The main tool within topological data analysis is persistent homology; this is a means of measuring the shape of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Tristan Gowdridge , Nikolaos Devilis , Keith Worden

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a recent approach to analyze data sets from the perspective of their topological structure. Its use for time series data has been limited to the field of financial time series primarily and as a method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Rodrigo Rivera-Castro , Polina Pilyugina , Alexander Pletnev , Ivan Maksimov , Wanyi Wyz , Evgeny Burnaev

Topological data analysis is a powerful tool for describing topological signatures in real world data. An important challenge in topological data analysis is matching significant topological signals across distinct systems. In geometry and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Stephen Y Zhang , Michael P H Stumpf , Tom Needham , Agnese Barbensi

As high-dimensional and high-frequency data are being collected on a large scale, the development of new statistical models is being pushed forward. Functional data analysis provides the required statistical methods to deal with large-scale…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-08 Israel Martínez-Hernández , Marc G. Genton

Scientists use a mathematical subject called 'topology' to study the shapes of objects. An important part of topology is counting the numbers of pieces and holes in objects, and people use this information to group objects into different…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Michelle Feng , Abigail Hickok , Yacoub H. Kureh , Mason A. Porter , Chad M. Topaz

This paper introduces topological data analysis. Starting from notions of a metric space and some elementary graph theory, we take example sets of data and demonstrate some of their topological properties. We discuss simplicial complexes…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2020-04-09 Dayten Sheffar

We demonstrate the identification and classification of topological phase transitions from experimental data using Diffusion Maps: a nonlocal unsupervised machine learning method. We analyze experimental data from an optical system…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-09 Eran Lustig , Or Yair , Ronen Talmon , Mordechai Segev

Real data is often given as a point cloud, i.e. a finite set of points with pairwise distances between them. An important problem is to detect the topological shape of data --- for example, to approximate a point cloud by a low-dimensional…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Sara Kalisnik Verovsek , Vitaliy Kurlin , Davorin Lesnik

Recently, there has been an explosion in statistical learning literature to represent data using topological principles to capture structure and relationships. We propose a topological data analysis (TDA)-based framework, named Topological…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-10 Jordan Eckert , Elvan Ceyhan , Henry Schenck

We use the notion of topological data analysis to compare metrics on data sets. We provide two different motivating examples for this. The first of these is a point cloud data set that has $\mathbb{R}^2$ as its ambient space, and is…

General Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Scott Balchin , Etienne Pillin

While the strength of Topological Data Analysis has been explored in many studies on high dimensional numeric data, it is still a challenging task to apply it to text. As the primary goal in topological data analysis is to define and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Shafie Gholizadeh , Ketki Savle , Armin Seyeditabari , Wlodek Zadrozny

Topological deep learning is a formalism that is aimed at introducing topological language to deep learning for the purpose of utilizing the minimal mathematical structures to formalize problems that arise in a generic deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Mustafa Hajij , Kyle Istvan

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a recent and growing branch of statistics devoted to the study of the shape of the data. In this work we investigate the predictive power of TDA in the context of supervised learning. Since topological…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-22 Tullia Padellini , Pierpaolo Brutti

The Mapper algorithm, a technique within topological data analysis (TDA), constructs a simplified graphical representation of high-dimensional data to uncover its underlying shape and structural patterns. The algorithm has attracted…

General Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Vine Nwabuisi Madukpe , Bright Chukwuma Ugoala , Nur Fariha Syaqina Zulkepli

In this chapter, we discuss applications of topological data analysis (TDA) to spatial systems. We briefly review the recently proposed level-set construction of filtered simplicial complexes, and we then examine persistent homology in two…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Michelle Feng , Abigail Hickok , Mason A. Porter

Topological methods are very rarely used in structural health monitoring (SHM), or indeed in structural dynamics generally, especially when considering the structure and topology of observed data. Topological methods can provide a way of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Tristan Gowdridge , Nikolaos Dervilis , Keith Worden

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a novel statistical technique, particularly powerful for the analysis of large and high dimensional data sets. Much of TDA is based on the tool of persistent homology, represented visually via persistence…

Applications · Statistics 2017-11-07 Sarit Agami , Robert J. Adler

With the rapid adoption of machine learning techniques for large-scale applications in science and engineering comes the convergence of two grand challenges in visualization. First, the utilization of black box models (e.g., deep neural…

This chapter explores neural networks, topological data analysis, and topological deep learning techniques, alongside statistical Bayesian methods, for processing images, time series, and graphs to maximize the potential of artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Sarah Harkins Dayton , Layal Bou Hamdan , Ioannis D. Schizas , David L. Boothe , Vasileios Maroulas

We use topological data analysis (TDA) to study how data transforms as it passes through successive layers of a deep neural network (DNN). We compute the persistent homology of the activation data for each layer of the network and summarize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Matthew Wheeler , Jose Bouza , Peter Bubenik