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Computational topology provides a tool, persistent homology, to extract quantitative descriptors from structured objects (images, graphs, point clouds, etc). These descriptors can then be involved in optimization problems, typically as a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Mathieu Carriere , Yuichi Ike , Théo Lacombe , Naoki Nishikawa

More than two decades ago, combinatorial topology was shown to be useful for analyzing distributed fault-tolerant algorithms in shared memory systems and in message passing systems. In this work, we show that combinatorial topology can also…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Armando Castañeda , Pierre Fraigniaud , Ami Paz , Sergio Rajsbaum , Matthieu Roy , Corentin Travers

A standard problem in applied topology is how to discover topological invariants of data from a noisy point cloud that approximates it. We consider the case where a sample is drawn from a properly embedded C1-submanifold without boundary in…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Sara Kalisnik , Davorin Lesnik

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

Topological landscape is introduced for networks with functions defined on the nodes. By extending the notion of gradient flows to the network setting, critical nodes of different indices are defined. This leads to a concise and…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-05-01 E. Weinan , Jianfeng Lu , Yuan Yao

This paper introduces and demonstrates a computational pipeline for the statistical analysis of shape graph datasets, namely geometric networks embedded in 2D or 3D spaces. Unlike traditional abstract graphs, our purpose is not only to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Murad Hossen , Demetrio Labate , Nicolas Charon

We introduce the Insertion Chain Complex, a higher-dimensional extension of insertion graphs, as a new framework for analyzing finite sets of words. We study its topological and combinatorial properties, in particular its homology groups,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Nataša Jonoska , Francisco Martinez-Figueroa , Masahico Saito

Topological data analysis (TDA) has emerged as a powerful tool for extracting meaningful insights from complex data. TDA enhances the analysis of objects by embedding them into a simplicial complex and extracting useful global properties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-17 Massimiliano Incudini , Francesco Martini , Alessandra Di Pierro

Topological data analysis aims to extract topological quantities from data, which tend to focus on the broader global structure of the data rather than local information. The Mapper method, specifically, generalizes clustering methods to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Jacek Cyranka , Alexander Georges , David Meyer

As both machine learning models and the datasets on which they are evaluated have grown in size and complexity, the practice of using a few summary statistics to understand model performance has become increasingly problematic. This is…

In this paper, we study cryptography from a geometrical viewpoint. Let N be a network, we endow N with a natural Grothendieck topology. We use geometric representations of cohomological classes to define encryptions protocols. Link to link…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-09-18 Aristide Tsemo

Persistent topological properties of an image serve as an additional descriptor providing an insight that might not be discovered by traditional neural networks. The existing research in this area focuses primarily on efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Ekaterina Khramtsova , Guido Zuccon , Xi Wang , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh

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

A geometric entropy is defined as the Riemannian volume of the parameter space of a statistical manifold associated with a given network. As such it can be a good candidate for measuring networks complexity. Here we investigate its ability…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 D. Felice , R. Franzosi , S. Mancini , M. Pettini

Unsupervised feature learning often finds low-dimensional embeddings that capture the structure of complex data. For tasks for which prior expert topological knowledge is available, incorporating this into the learned representation may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Robin Vandaele , Bo Kang , Jefrey Lijffijt , Tijl De Bie , Yvan Saeys

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

There is heightened interest in quantum algorithms for Topological Data Analysis (TDA) as it is a powerful tool for data analysis, but it can get highly computationally expensive. Even though there are different propositions and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Ankit Khandelwal , M Girish Chandra

Garside et al. use event history methods to analyze topological data. We provide additional background on persistent homology to contrast the hazard estimators used by Garside et al. with traditional approaches in topological data analysis.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-18 Peter Bubenik

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

Monitoring network traffic to identify content, services, and applications is an active research topic in network traffic control systems. While modern firewalls provide the capability to decrypt packets, this is not appealing for privacy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Niloofar Bayat , Weston Jackson , Derrick Liu