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We derive an exact representation of the topological effect on the dynamics of sequence processing neural networks within signal-to-noise analysis. A new network structure parameter, loopiness coefficient, is introduced to quantitatively…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-05-11 Pan Zhang , Yong Chen

This paper contains an expository account of persistent homology and its usefulness for topological data analysis. An alternative foundation for level-set persistence is presented using sheaves and cosheaves.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Justin Curry

We introduce a consistent estimator for the homology (an algebraic structure representing connected components and cycles) of level sets of both density and regression functions. Our method is based on kernel estimation. We apply this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Omer Bobrowski , Sayan Mukherjee , Jonathan E. Taylor

Understanding how neural networks learn remains one of the central challenges in machine learning research. From random at the start of training, the weights of a neural network evolve in such a way as to be able to perform a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Maxime Gabella

Persistent homology computes the multiscale topology of a data set by using a sequence of discrete complexes. In this paper, we propose that persistent homology may be a useful tool for studying the structure of the landscape of string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-24 Alex Cole , Gary Shiu

We propose a novel method for topological analysis of unweighted graphs which is based on \textit{persistent homology}. The proposed method maps the input graph to a complete weighted graph where the weighting function maps each edge to a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Padraig Corcoran

The topological morphology descriptor of a neuron is a multiset of intervals associated to the shape of the neuron represented as a tree. In practice, topological morphology descriptors are vectorized using persistence images, which can…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-17 David Beers , Heather A. Harrington , Alain Goriely

Understanding how neural networks generalize on unseen data is crucial for designing more robust and reliable models. In this paper, we study the generalization gap of neural networks using methods from topological data analysis. For this…

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

Topological data analysis and its main method, persistent homology, provide a toolkit for computing topological information of high-dimensional and noisy data sets. Kernels for one-parameter persistent homology have been established to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-06 René Corbet , Ulderico Fugacci , Michael Kerber , Claudia Landi , Bei Wang

The standard cosmological model with cold dark matter posits a hierarchical formation of structures. We introduce topological neural networks (TNNs), implemented as message-passing neural networks on higher-order structures, to effectively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-06 Jun-Young Lee , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

Multiplexed imaging allows multiple cell types to be simultaneously visualised in a single tissue sample, generating unprecedented amounts of spatially-resolved, biological data. In topological data analysis, persistent homology provides…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-06 Maria Torras-Pérez , Iris H. R. Yoon , Praveen Weeratunga , Ling-Pei Ho , Helen M. Byrne , Ulrike Tillmann , Heather A. Harrington

Persistent Homology is a powerful tool in Topological Data Analysis (TDA) to capture topological properties of data succinctly at different spatial resolutions. For graphical data, shape, and structure of the neighborhood of individual data…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Sumit Bhatia , Bapi Chatterjee , Deepak Nathani , Manohar Kaul

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

In topological data analysis, we want to discern topological and geometric structure of data, and to understand whether or not certain features of data are significant as opposed to simply random noise. While progress has been made on…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-01-10 So Mang Han , Taylor Okonek , Nikesh Yadav , Xiaojun Zheng

Topological data analysis (TDA) provides insight into data shape. The summaries obtained by these methods are principled global descriptions of multi-dimensional data whilst exhibiting stable properties such as robustness to deformation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Ali Zia , Abdelwahed Khamis , James Nichols , Zeeshan Hayder , Vivien Rolland , Lars Petersson

While branching network structures abound in nature, their objective analysis is more difficult than expected because existing quantitative methods often rely on the subjective judgment of branch structures. This problem is particularly…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Haruhisa Oda , Mayuko Kida , Yoichi Nakata , Hiroki Kurihara

The problem of (point) forecasting $ \textit{univariate} $ time series is considered. Most approaches, ranging from traditional statistical methods to recent learning-based techniques with neural networks, directly operate on raw time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Sebastian Zeng , Florian Graf , Christoph Hofer , Roland Kwitt

The field of mathematical morphology offers well-studied techniques for image processing. In this work, we view morphological operations through the lens of persistent homology, a tool at the heart of the field of topological data analysis.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yu-Min Chung , Sarah Day , Chuan-Shen Hu

The topological (or graph) structures of real-world networks are known to be predictive of multiple dynamic properties of the networks. Conventionally, a graph structure is represented using an adjacency matrix or a set of hand-crafted…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-21 Cheng Li , Xiaoxiao Guo , Qiaozhu Mei