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We start with a simple introduction to topological data analysis where the most popular tool is called a persistent diagram. Briefly, a persistent diagram is a multiset of points in the plane describing the persistence of topological…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Christophe Biscio , Jesper Møller

Computational topologists recently developed a method, called persistent homology to analyze data presented in terms of similarity or dissimilarity. Indeed, persistent homology studies the evolution of topological features in terms of a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-08-01 Pavel Petrov , Stephen T Rush , Zhichun Zhai , Christine H Lee , Peter T Kim , Giseon Heo

Persistent homology is a fundamental tool in Topological Data Analysis. The associated algebraic structure is the persistence module, a sequence of vector spaces connected by linear maps. Persistence modules admit a complete and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-13 R. Gonzalez-Diaz , M. Soriano-Trigueros , A. Torras-Casas

The natural occurrence of singular spaces in applications has led to recent investigations on performing topological data analysis (TDA) in a stratified framework. In many applications, there is no a priori information on what points should…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Tim Mäder , Lukas Waas

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) has been applied with success to solve problems across many scientific disciplines. However, in the setting of a point cloud $X$ sampled from a shape $\mathcal{S}$ of low intrinsic dimension embedded within…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Jonathan M. Mousley , Paul Bendich

In this work we use the persistent homology method, a technique in topological data analysis (TDA), to extract essential topological features from the data space and combine them with deep learning features for classification tasks. In TDA,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Mariana Dória Prata Lima , Gilson Antonio Giraldi , Gastão Florêncio Miranda Junior

We develop in this paper a theoretical framework for the topological study of time series data. Broadly speaking, we describe geometrical and topological properties of sliding window (or time-delay) embeddings, as seen through the lens of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Jose Perea , John Harer

Interacting, self-propelled particles such as epithelial cells can dynamically self-organize into complex multicellular patterns, which are challenging to classify without a priori information. Classically, different phases and phase…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-19 Dhananjay Bhaskar , William Y. Zhang , Ian Y. Wong

Persistent homology is a popular and powerful tool for capturing topological features of data. Advances in algorithms for computing persistent homology have reduced the computation time drastically -- as long as the algorithm does not…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-10-03 Ulrich Bauer , Michael Kerber , Jan Reininghaus

The motivation of this paper is to recognize a geometric shape from a noisy sample in the form of a point cloud. Inspired by the HDBSCAN clustering algorithm, we introduce the core dissimilarity, from which we construct the core…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Nello Blaser , Morten Brun , Odin Hoff Gardaa , Lars M. Salbu

We present a new tool for data analysis: persistence discrete homology, which is well-suited to analyze filtrations of graphs. In particular, we provide a novel way of representing high-dimensional data as a filtration of graphs using…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Chris Kapulkin , Nathan Kershaw

The present contribution investigates multivariate bootstrap procedures for general stabilizing statistics, with specific application to topological data analysis. Existing limit theorems for topological statistics prove difficult to use in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Benjamin Roycraft , Johannes Krebs , Wolfgang Polonik

Real data is often given as a point cloud, i.e. a finite set of points with pairwise distances between them. An important problem is to detect the topological shape of data --- for example, to approximate a point cloud by a low-dimensional…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Sara Kalisnik Verovsek , Vitaliy Kurlin , Davorin Lesnik

Popular network models such as the mixed membership and standard stochastic block model are known to exhibit distinct geometric structure when embedded into $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ using spectral methods. The resulting point cloud concentrates…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Vinesh Solanki , Patrick Rubin-Delanchy , Ian Gallagher

This paper displays the Healy-McInnes UMAP construction $V(X,N)$ as an iterated pushout of Vietoris-Rips objects associated to extended pseudo metric spaces (ep-metric spaces) defined by choices of neighbourhoods of the elements of a finite…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-30 J. F. Jardine

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 study a family of invariants of compact metric spaces that combines the Curvature Sets defined by Gromov in the 1980s with Vietoris-Rips Persistent Homology. For given integers $k\geq 0$ and $n\geq 1$ we consider the dimension $k$…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Mario Gómez , Facundo Mémoli

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

We present Euler Characteristic Surfaces as a multiscale spatiotemporal topological summary of time series data encapsulating the topology of the system at different time instants and length scales. Euler Characteristic Surfaces with an…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-20 Anamika Roy , Atish J. Mitra , Tapati Dutta

Persistent homology is an important methodology in topological data analysis which adapts theory from algebraic topology to data settings. Computing persistent homology produces persistence diagrams, which have been successfully used in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-13 Yueqi Cao , Anthea Monod