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Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a novel new and fast growing field of data science providing a set of new topological and geometric tools to derive relevant features out of complex high-dimensional data. In this paper we apply two of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Naiereh Elyasi , Mehdi Hosseini Moghadam

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

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

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

Statistical analysis on object data presents many challenges. Basic summaries such as means and variances are difficult to compute. We apply ideas from topology to study object data. We present a framework for using persistence landscapes…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-12-12 Vic Patrangenaru , Peter Bubenik , Robert L. Paige , Daniel Osborne

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) provides tools to describe the shape of data, but integrating topological features into deep learning pipelines remains challenging, especially when preserving local geometric structure rather than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Elena Xinyi Wang , Arnur Nigmetov , Dmitriy Morozov

Topological data analysis (TDA) is an emerging mathematical concept for characterizing shapes in complex data. In TDA, persistence diagrams are widely recognized as a useful descriptor of data, and can distinguish robust and noisy…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Genki Kusano , Kenji Fukumizu , Yasuaki Hiraoka

This paper concerns a theoretical approach that combines topological data analysis (TDA) and sheaf theory. Topological data analysis, a rising field in mathematics and computer science, concerns the shape of the data and has been proven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Chuan-Shen Hu , Yu-Min Chung

Software libraries for Topological Data Analysis (TDA) offer limited support for interactive visualization. Most libraries only allow to visualize topological descriptors (e.g., persistence diagrams), and lose the connection with the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Xueyi Bao , Guoxi Liu , Federico Iuricich

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

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) has emerged as a powerful framework for extracting robust and interpretable features from noisy high-dimensional data. In the context of Social Choice Theory, where preference profiles and collective…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Athanasios Andrikopoulos , Nikolaos Sampanis

This book gives a thorough introduction to topological data analysis (TDA), the application of algebraic topology to data science. Algebraic topology is traditionally a very specialized field of math, and most mathematicians have never been…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Michael S. Postol

Persistent homology is a tool from Topological Data Analysis (TDA) used to summarize the topology underlying data. It can be conveniently represented through persistence diagrams. Observing a noisy signal, common strategies to infer its…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Hugo Henneuse

Topological data analysis (TDA) uncovers crucial properties of objects in medical imaging. Methods based on persistent homology have demonstrated their advantages in capturing topological features that traditional deep learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Yanfan Zhu , Yash Singh , Khaled Younis , Shunxing Bao , Yuankai Huo

Topological Data Analysis is a recent and fast growing field providing a set of new topological and geometric tools to infer relevant features for possibly complex data. This paper is a brief introduction, through a few selected topics, to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-26 Frédéric Chazal , Bertrand Michel

Despite the remarkable accuracies attained by machine learning classifiers to separate complex datasets in a supervised fashion, most of their operation falls short to provide an informed intuition about the structure of data, and, what is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Aina Ferrà , Gloria Cecchini , Fritz-Pere Nobbe Fisas , Carles Casacuberta , Ignasi Cos

Persistent topological Laplacians constitute a new class of tools in topological data analysis (TDA). They are motivated by the necessity to address challenges encountered in persistent homology when handling complex data. These Laplacians…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Xiaoqi Wei , Guo-Wei Wei

Topological data analysis is an emerging field that applies the study of topological invariants to data. Perhaps the simplest of these invariants is the number of connected components or clusters. In this work, we explore a topological…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ian Stewart Joyce , Grant Erdmann , Kirk P. Gardner , Ryan Kramer , Kyle Siegrist

Topological data analysis (TDA) uses persistent homology to quantify loops and higher-dimensional holes in data, making it particularly relevant for examining the characteristics of images of cells in the field of cell biology. In the…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-06 Susan Glenn , Jessi Cisewski-Kehe , Jun Zhu , William M. Bement