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A central challenge in topological data analysis is the interpretation of barcodes. The classical algebraic-topological approach to interpreting homology classes is to build maps to spaces whose homology carries semantics we understand and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Iris H. R. Yoon , Robert Ghrist , Chad Giusti

Persistent homology (PH) has been widely applied to graph data to extract topological features. However, little attention has been paid to how different distance functions on a graph affect the resulting persistence barcodes and their…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Eunwoo Heo , Byeongchan Choi , Jae-Hun Jung

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

The aim of this paper is to present a method for computation of persistent homology that performs well at large filtration values. To this end we introduce the concept of filtered covers. We show that the persistent homology of a bounded…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Nello Blaser , Morten Brun

In this work, we explore links between natural homology and persistent homology for the classification of directed spaces. The former is an algebraic invariant of directed spaces, a semantic model of concurrent programs. The latter was…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Cameron Calk , Eric Goubault , Philippe Malbos

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) offers a suite of computational tools that provide quantified shape features in high dimensional data that can be used by modern statistical and predictive machine learning (ML) models. In particular,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Dominic Gold , Koray Karabina , Francis C. Motta

To analyze the topological properties of the given discrete data, one needs to consider a continuous transform called filtration. Persistent homology serves as a tool to track changes of homology in the filtration. The outcome of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Keunsu Kim , Jae-Hun Jung

This paper develops the idea of homology for 1-parameter families of topological spaces. We express parametrized homology as a collection of real intervals with each corresponding to a homological feature supported over that interval or,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Gunnar Carlsson , Vin de Silva , Sara Kalisnik , Dmitriy Morozov

Similarity-preserving hashing is a widely-used method for nearest neighbour search in large-scale image retrieval tasks. For most existing hashing methods, an image is first encoded as a vector of hand-engineering visual features, followed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-17 Hanjiang Lai , Yan Pan , Ye Liu , Shuicheng Yan

In medical image analysis, feature engineering plays an important role in the design and performance of machine learning models. Persistent homology (PH), from the field of topological data analysis (TDA), demonstrates robustness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Dashti A. Ali , Richard K. G. Do , William R. Jarnagin , Aras T. Asaad , Amber L. Simpson

$1$-parameter persistent homology, a cornerstone in Topological Data Analysis (TDA), studies the evolution of topological features such as connected components and cycles hidden in data. It has been applied to enhance the representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Cheng Xin , Soham Mukherjee , Shreyas N. Samaga , Tamal K. Dey

We give bounds for dimension 0 persistent homology and codimension 1 homology of Vietoris--Rips, alpha, and cubical complex filtrations from finite sets related by enrichment (adding new elements), sparsification (removing elements), and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Jānis Lazovskis , Ran Levi , Juliano Morimoto

This paper presents a new algorithm for online estimation of a sequence of homographies applicable to image sequences obtained from robotic vehicles equipped with vision sensors. The approach taken exploits the underlying Special Linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Minh-Duc Hua , Jochen Trumpf , Tarek Hamel , Robert Mahony , Pascal Morin

Classification of large and dense networks based on topology is very difficult due to the computational challenges of extracting meaningful topological features from real-world networks. In this paper we present a computationally tractable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Tananun Songdechakraiwut , Bryan M. Krause , Matthew I. Banks , Kirill V. Nourski , Barry D. Van Veen

Graphs model real-world circumstances in many applications where they may constantly change to capture the dynamic behavior of the phenomena. Topological persistence which provides a set of birth and death pairs for the topological features…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Tamal K. Dey , Tao Hou

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a tool from data science and mathematics that is beginning to make waves in environmental science. In this work, we seek to provide an intuitive and understandable introduction to a tool from TDA that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Lander Ver Hoef , Henry Adams , Emily J. King , Imme Ebert-Uphoff

We introduce a construction and an algorithm, both based on Topological Data Analysis (TDA), to tackle the problem of the isomorphism check of Orthogonal Arrays (OAs). Specifically, we associate to any binary OA a persistence diagram, one…

Computation · Statistics 2024-10-01 Roberto Fontana , Marco Guerra

Datasets often possess an intrinsic multiscale structure with meaningful descriptions at different levels of coarseness. Such datasets are naturally described as multi-resolution clusterings, i.e., not necessarily hierarchical sequences of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Juni Schindler , Mauricio Barahona

Directed graphs arise in many applications where computing persistent homology helps to encode the shape and structure of the input information. However, there are only a few ways to turn the directed graph information into an undirected…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-30 David E. Muñoz , Elizabeth Munch , Firas A. Khasawneh

Persistent homology is a method for probing topological properties of point clouds and functions. The method involves tracking the birth and death of topological features (2000) as one varies a tuning parameter. Features with short…