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Persistent homology is a mathematical tool used for studying the shape of data by extracting its topological features. It has gained popularity in network science due to its applicability in various network mining problems, including…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Mehmet Emin Aktas , Thu Nguyen , Rakin Riza , Muhammad Ifte Islam , Esra Akbas

Persistent homology is a powerful mathematical tool that summarizes useful information about the shape of data allowing one to detect persistent topological features while one adjusts the resolution. However, the computation of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Bernardo Ameneyro , Vasileios Maroulas , George Siopsis

Recently it has been shown that computing the dimension of the first homology group $H_1(K)$ of a simplicial $2$-complex $K$ embedded linearly in $\mathbb{R}^4$ is as hard as computing the rank of a sparse $0-1$ matrix. This puts a major…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Tamal K. Dey

We propose a general technique for extracting a larger set of stable information from persistent homology computations than is currently done. The persistent homology algorithm is usually viewed as a procedure which starts with a filtered…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Paul Bendich , Peter Bubenik , Alexander Wagner

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

Persistent homology is a topological feature used in a variety of applications such as generating features for data analysis and penalizing optimization problems. We develop an approach to accelerate persistent homology computations…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Yuan Luo , Bradley J. Nelson

We give an $O(n^2(k+\log n))$ algorithm for computing the $k$-dimensional persistent homology of a filtration of clique complexes of cyclic graphs on $n$ vertices. This is nearly quadratic in the number of vertices $n$, and therefore a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Henry Adams , Ethan Coldren , Sean Willmot

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

We present a parallelizable algorithm for computing the persistent homology of a filtered chain complex. Our approach differs from the commonly used reduction algorithm by first computing persistence pairs within local chunks, then…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2013-03-05 Ulrich Bauer , Michael Kerber , Jan Reininghaus

We characterize structures such as monotonicity, convexity, and modality in smooth regression curves using persistent homology. Persistent homology is a key tool in topological data analysis that detects higher-dimensional topological…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Satish Kumar , Subhra Sankar Dhar

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…

Matrix reduction is the standard procedure for computing the persistent homology of a filtered simplicial complex with $m$ simplices. Its output is a particular decomposition of the total boundary matrix, from which the persistence diagrams…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Matthew Piekenbrock , Jose A. Perea

Persistence diagrams, combining geometry and topology for an effective shape description used in pattern recognition, have already proven to be an effective tool for shape representation with respect to a certainfiltering function.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-12-26 Alessia Angeli , Massimo Ferri , Ivan Tomba

Persistent homology, a technique from computational topology, has recently shown strong empirical performance in the context of graph classification. Being able to capture long range graph properties via higher-order topological features,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Rubén Ballester , Bastian Rieck

Persistent homology is a crucial invariant that is used in many areas to understand data. The $O(N^4)$ run time is a hindrance to its use on most large datasets. We give a parallelization method to utilize multi-core machines and clusters.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Michael G. Rawson

Persistent homology is constrained to purely topological persistence while multiscale graphs account only for geometric information. This work introduces persistent spectral theory to create a unified low-dimensional multiscale paradigm for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-13 Rui Wang , Duc Duy Nguyen , Guo-Wei Wei

Persistent homology (PH) is a recently developed theory in the field of algebraic topology to study shapes of datasets. It is an effective data analysis tool that is robust to noise and has been widely applied. We demonstrate a general…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Yu-Min Chung , Chuan-Shen Hu , Yu-Lun Lo , Hau-Tieng Wu

The intrinsic connection between lattice theory and topology is fairly well established, For instance, the collection of open subsets of a topological subspace always forms a distributive lattice. Persistent homology has been one of the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2014-02-03 Primož Škraba , João Pita Costa

Persistent homology is a multiscale method for analyzing the shape of sets and functions from point cloud data arising from an unknown distribution supported on those sets. When the size of the sample is large, direct computation of the…

In this article we establish two fundamental results for the sublevel set persistent homology for stationary processes indexed by the positive integers. The first is a strong law of large numbers for the persistence diagram (treated as a…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Andrew M. Thomas