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Persistent homology (PH) is a method used in topological data analysis (TDA) to study qualitative features of data that persist across multiple scales. It is robust to perturbations of input data, independent of dimensions and coordinates,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Nina Otter , Mason A. Porter , Ulrike Tillmann , Peter Grindrod , Heather A. Harrington

Including intricate topological information (e.g., cycles) provably enhances the expressivity of message-passing graph neural networks (GNNs) beyond the Weisfeiler-Leman (WL) hierarchy. Consequently, Persistent Homology (PH) methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Mattie Ji , Amauri H. Souza , Vikas Garg

Extended persistence is a technique from topological data analysis to obtain global multiscale topological information from a graph. This includes information about connected components and cycles that are captured by the so-called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Simon Zhang , Soham Mukherjee , Tamal K. Dey

Visualization in the emerging field of topological data analysis has progressed from persistence barcodes and persistence diagrams to display of two-parameter persistent homology. Although persistence barcodes and diagrams have permitted…

Applications · Statistics 2019-01-08 Raoul R. Wadhwa , Andrew Dhawan , Drew F. K. Williamson , Jacob G. Scott

Topological features based on persistent homology capture high-order structural information so as to augment graph neural network methods. However, computing extended persistent homology summaries remains slow for large and dense graphs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Zuoyu Yan , Tengfei Ma , Liangcai Gao , Zhi Tang , Yusu Wang , Chao Chen

Graph neural networks have become the default choice by practitioners for graph learning tasks such as graph classification and node classification. Nevertheless, popular graph neural network models still struggle to capture higher-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Davide Buffelli , Farzin Soleymani , Bastian Rieck

Persistent Homology (PH) is a fundamental tool in computational topology, designed to uncover the intrinsic geometric and topological features of data across multiple scales. Originating within the broader framework of Topological Data…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Aurelie Jodelle Kemme , Collins Amburo Agyingi

Persistent homology is a cornerstone of topological data analysis, offering a multiscale summary of topology with robustness to nuisance transformations, such as rotations and small deformations. Persistent homology has seen broad use…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-19 Zitian Wu , Arkaprava Roy , Leo L. Duan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the standard for graph representation learning but remain vulnerable to structural perturbations. We propose a novel framework that integrates persistent homology features with stability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Jelena Losic

Metric graphs are ubiquitous in science and engineering. For example, many data are drawn from hidden spaces that are graph-like, such as the cosmic web. A metric graph offers one of the simplest yet still meaningful ways to represent the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Tamal K. Dey , Dayu Shi , Yusu Wang

Graphs are a basic tool for the representation of modern data. The richness of the topological information contained in a graph goes far beyond its mere interpretation as a one-dimensional simplicial complex. We show how topological…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-11 Mattia G. Bergomi , Massimo Ferri , Lorenzo Zuffi

Dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs) are a widely used framework for modeling systems whose probabilistic structure evolves over time. Standard inference methods focus on local conditional distributions and can miss larger-scale patterns in how…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Will Bales , Carmen Rovi

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

We present the Chromatic Persistence Algorithm (CPA), an event-driven method for computing persistent cohomological features of weighted graphs via graphic arrangements, a classical object in computational geometry. We establish rigorous…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Yoshihiro Maruyama

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Luigi Caputi , Nicholas Meadows , Henri Riihimäki

Representational limits of message-passing graph neural networks (MP-GNNs), e.g., in terms of the Weisfeiler-Leman (WL) test for isomorphism, are well understood. Augmenting these graph models with topological features via persistent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Johanna Immonen , Amauri H. Souza , Vikas Garg

Signature tensors of paths are a versatile tool for data analysis and machine learning. Recently, they have been applied to persistent homology, by embedding barcodes into spaces of paths. Among the different path embeddings, the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Vincenzo Galgano , Heather A. Harrington , Daniel Tolosa

Topological data analysis (TDA) is an area of data science that focuses on using invariants from algebraic topology to provide multiscale shape descriptors for geometric data sets such as point clouds. One of the most important such…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-21 David Loiseaux , Mathieu Carrière , Andrew J. Blumberg

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