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Topological correctness is critical for segmentation of tubular structures, which pervade in biomedical images. Existing topological segmentation loss functions are primarily based on the persistent homology of the image. They match the…

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Machine Learning (ML) has become one of the most impactful fields of data science in recent years. However, a significant concern with ML is its privacy risks due to rising attacks against ML models. Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Khoa Nguyen , Mindaugas Budzys , Eugene Frimpong , Tanveer Khan , Antonis Michalas

The theory of multidimensional persistent homology was initially developed in the discrete setting, and involved the study of simplicial complexes filtered through an ordering of the simplices. Later, stability properties of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-03-28 Niccolò Cavazza , Marc Ethier , Patrizio Frosini , Tomasz Kaczynski , Claudia Landi

Point clouds are a set of data points in space to represent the 3D geometry of objects. A fundamental step in the processing is to identify a subset of points to represent the shape. While traditional sampling methods often ignore to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Pierre Onghena , Santiago Velasco-Forero , Beatriz Marcotegui

In data clustering, it is often desirable to find not just a single partition into clusters but a sequence of partitions that describes the data at different scales (or levels of coarseness). A natural problem then is to analyse and compare…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Juni Schindler , Mauricio Barahona

In recent years there has been noticeable interest in the study of the "shape of data". Among the many ways a "shape" could be defined, topology is the most general one, as it describes an object in terms of its connectivity structure:…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-22 Tullia Padellini , Pierpaolo Brutti

Persistent homology (PH) is one of the most popular tools in topological data analysis (TDA), while graph theory has had a significant impact on data science. Our earlier work introduced the persistent spectral graph (PSG) theory as a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Rui Wang , Rundong Zhao , Emily Ribando-Gros , Jiahui Chen , Yiying Tong , Guo-Wei Wei

Topological Machine Learning (TML) is an emerging field that leverages techniques from algebraic topology to analyze complex data structures in ways that traditional machine learning methods may not capture. This tutorial provides a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Baris Coskunuzer , Cüneyt Gürcan Akçora

The question of representation of 3D geometry is of vital importance when it comes to leveraging the recent advances in the field of machine learning for geometry processing tasks. For common unstructured surface meshes state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Isaak Lim , Alexander Dielen , Marcel Campen , Leif Kobbelt

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

A set of molecular descriptors whose length is independent of molecular size is developed for machine learning models that target thermodynamic and electronic properties of molecules. These features are evaluated by monitoring performance…

In high energy density physics (HEDP) and inertial confinement fusion (ICF), predictive modeling is complicated by uncertainty in parameters that characterize various aspects of the modeled system, such as those characterizing material…

Topological structures in image data, such as connected components and loops, play a crucial role in understanding image content (e.g., biomedical objects). % Despite remarkable successes of numerous image processing methods that rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Pengfei Gu , Hongxiao Wang , Yejia Zhang , Huimin Li , Chaoli Wang , Danny Chen

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…

The microstructure critically governs the properties of materials used in energy and chemical engineering technologies, from catalysts and filters to thermal insulators and sensors. Therefore, accurate design is based on quantitative…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Maksym Szemer , Szymon Buchaniec , Grzegorz Brus

Multiplexed imaging allows multiple cell types to be simultaneously visualised in a single tissue sample, generating unprecedented amounts of spatially-resolved, biological data. In topological data analysis, persistent homology provides…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-06 Maria Torras-Pérez , Iris H. R. Yoon , Praveen Weeratunga , Ling-Pei Ho , Helen M. Byrne , Ulrike Tillmann , Heather A. Harrington

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

Topological methods can provide a way of proposing new metrics and methods of scrutinising data, that otherwise may be overlooked. In this work, a method of quantifying the shape of data, via a topic called topological data analysis will be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-25 Tristan Gowdridge , Nikolaos Dervilis , Keith Worden

Persistent homology is a technique recently developed in algebraic and computational topology well-suited to analysing structure in complex, high-dimensional data. In this paper, we exposit the theory of persistent homology from first…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-30 Matthew Pietrosanu

We study the persistent homology of both functional data on compact topological spaces and structural data presented as compact metric measure spaces. One of our goals is to define persistent homology so as to capture primarily properties…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Haibin Hang , Facundo Mémoli , Washington Mio