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Classification of large and dense networks based on topology is very difficult due to the computational challenges of extracting meaningful topological features from real-world networks. In this paper we present a computationally tractable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Tananun Songdechakraiwut , Bryan M. Krause , Matthew I. Banks , Kirill V. Nourski , Barry D. Van Veen

Thresholding--the pruning of nodes or edges based on their properties or weights--is an essential preprocessing tool for extracting interpretable structure from complex network data, yet existing methods face several key limitations.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Adam Schroeder , Russell Funk , Jingyi Guan , Taylor Okonek , Lori Ziegelmeier

We present a novel method to explicitly incorporate topological prior knowledge into deep learning based segmentation, which is, to our knowledge, the first work to do so. Our method uses the concept of persistent homology, a tool from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-30 James R. Clough , Ilkay Oksuz , Nicholas Byrne , Julia A. Schnabel , Andrew P. King

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

In topological data analysis, persistent homology characterizes robust topological features in data and it has a summary representation, called a persistence diagram. Statistical research for persistence diagrams have been actively…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-29 Genki Kusano

We introduce graphcodes, a novel multi-scale summary of the topological properties of a dataset that is based on the well-established theory of persistent homology. Graphcodes handle datasets that are filtered along two real-valued scale…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Michael Kerber , Florian Russold

We extend the notion of the distance to a measure from Euclidean space to probability measures on general metric spaces as a way to do topological data analysis in a way that is robust to noise and outliers. We then give an efficient way to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-10-09 Mickael Buchet , Frederic Chazal , Steve Y. Oudot , Donald R. Sheehy

Persistent homology provides a robust methodology to infer topological structures from point cloud data. Here we explore the persistent homology of point clouds embedded into a probabilistic setting, exploiting the theory of point…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-07 Daniel Spitz , Anna Wienhard

Topology applied to real world data using persistent homology has started to find applications within machine learning, including deep learning. We present a differentiable topology layer that computes persistent homology based on level set…

This thesis addresses the theory of topological spaces and the foundations of persistence theory. We will discuss chain complexes and the associated simplicial homology groups, as well as their relationship with singular homology theory.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Luciano Melodia

Persistent Homology is a widely used topological data analysis tool that creates a concise description of the topological properties of a point cloud based on a specified filtration. Most filtrations used for persistent homology depend…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Vincent P. Grande , Michael T. Schaub

Persistent homology allows us to create topological summaries of complex data. In order to analyse these statistically, we need to choose a topological summary and a relevant metric space in which this topological summary exists. While…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-06-24 Katharine Turner , Gard Spreemann

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

New representations of tree-structured data objects, using ideas from topological data analysis, enable improved statistical analyses of a population of brain artery trees. A number of representations of each data tree arise from…

Applications · Statistics 2014-11-26 Paul Bendich , J. S. Marron , Ezra Miller , Alex Pieloch , Sean Skwerer

In computer vision, keypoint detection is a fundamental task, with applications spanning from robotics to image retrieval; however, existing learning-based methods suffer from scale dependency and lack flexibility. This paper introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Giovanni Barbarani , Francesco Vaccarino , Gabriele Trivigno , Marco Guerra , Gabriele Berton , Carlo Masone

We apply modern methods in computational topology to the task of discovering and characterizing phase transitions. As illustrations, we apply our method to four two-dimensional lattice spin models: the Ising, square ice, XY, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-04 Alex Cole , Gregory J. Loges , Gary Shiu

Much information about a graph can be obtained by studying its spanning trees. On the other hand, a graph can be regarded as a 1-dimensional cell complex, raising the question of developing a theory of trees in higher dimension. As observed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-24 Art M. Duval , Caroline J. Klivans , Jeremy L. Martin

Simplicial homology is a tool that provides a mathematical way to compute the connectivity and the coverage of a cellular network without any node location information. In this article, we use simplicial homology in order to not only…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Anaïs Vergne , Laurent Decreusefond , Philippe Martins

Topological data analysis is a relatively new branch of machine learning that excels in studying high dimensional data, and is theoretically known to be robust against noise. Meanwhile, data objects with mixed numeric and categorical…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Chengyuan Wu , Carol Anne Hargreaves

We present a mathematical framework for describing the topology of configuration spaces for particles on one-connected graphs. In particular, we compute the homology groups over integers for different classes of one-connected graphs. Our…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Tomasz Maciążek , Adam Sawicki