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Persistent homology enables fast and computable comparison of topological objects. However, it is naturally limited to the analysis of topological spaces. We extend the theory of persistence, by guaranteeing robustness and computability to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Mattia G. Bergomi , Massimo Ferri , Pietro Vertechi , Lorenzo Zuffi

In this paper, we consider topological featurizations of data defined over simplicial complexes, like images and labeled graphs, obtained by convolving this data with various filters before computing persistence. Viewing a convolution…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Elchanan Solomon , Paul Bendich

The aim of this paper is to present a method for computation of persistent homology that performs well at large filtration values. To this end we introduce the concept of filtered covers. We show that the persistent homology of a bounded…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Nello Blaser , Morten Brun

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

We develop novel methods for using persistent homology to infer the homology of an unknown Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$ from a point cloud sampled from an arbitrary smooth probability density function. Standard distance-based filtered…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Abigail Hickok

Topological data analysis can reveal higher-order structure beyond pairwise connections between vertices in complex networks. We present a new method based on discrete Morse theory to study topological properties of unweighted and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Harish Kannan , Emil Saucan , Indrava Roy , Areejit Samal

Topological data analysis can extract effective information from higher-dimensional data. Its mathematical basis is persistent homology. The persistent homology can calculate topological features at different spatiotemporal scales of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-09-29 Dinghua Shi , Zhifeng Chen , Chuang Ma , Guanrong Chen

Data quality is crucial for the successful training, generalization and performance of machine learning models. We propose to measure the quality of a subset concerning the dataset it represents, using topological data analysis techniques.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Álvaro Torras-Casas , Eduardo Paluzo-Hidalgo , Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz

We develop an analysis pipeline for characterizing the topology of large scale structure and extracting cosmological constraints based on persistent homology. Persistent homology is a technique from topological data analysis that quantifies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-14 Matteo Biagetti , Alex Cole , Gary Shiu

Convex clustering is a modern method with both hierarchical and $k$-means clustering characteristics. Although convex clustering can capture complex clustering structures hidden in data, the existing convex clustering algorithms are not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-22 Daniel J. W. Touw , Patrick J. F. Groenen , Yoshikazu Terada

Multiple clustering aims at exploring alternative clusterings to organize the data into meaningful groups from different perspectives. Existing multiple clustering algorithms are designed for single-view data. We assume that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Shixing Yao , Guoxian Yu , Jun Wang , Carlotta Domeniconi , Xiangliang Zhang

Persistent homology, an algebraic method for discerning structure in abstract data, relies on the construction of a sequence of nested topological spaces known as a filtration. Two-parameter persistent homology allows the analysis of data…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Anway De , Thong Vo , Matthew Wright

A fundamental tool in topological data analysis is persistent homology, which allows extraction of information from complex datasets in a robust way. Persistent homology assigns a module over a principal ideal domain to a one-parameter…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Heather A. Harrington , Nina Otter , Hal Schenck , Ulrike Tillmann

We propose a novel approach to the problem of multilevel clustering, which aims to simultaneously partition data in each group and discover grouping patterns among groups in a potentially large hierarchically structured corpus of data. Our…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-14 Nhat Ho , XuanLong Nguyen , Mikhail Yurochkin , Hung Hai Bui , Viet Huynh , Dinh Phung

With inspiration from Random Forests (RF) in the context of classification, a new clustering ensemble method---Cluster Forests (CF) is proposed. Geometrically, CF randomly probes a high-dimensional data cloud to obtain "good local…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-06-07 Donghui Yan , Aiyou Chen , Michael I. Jordan

Persistent homology naturally addresses the multi-scale topological characteristics of the large-scale structure as a distribution of clusters, loops, and voids. We apply this tool to the dark matter halo catalogs from the Quijote…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-31 Jacky H. T. Yip , Matteo Biagetti , Alex Cole , Karthik Viswanathan , Gary Shiu

We propose a novel approach to the problem of multilevel clustering, which aims to simultaneously partition data in each group and discover grouping patterns among groups in a potentially large hierarchically structured corpus of data. Our…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-26 Viet Huynh , Nhat Ho , Nhan Dam , XuanLong Nguyen , Mikhail Yurochkin , Hung Bui , and Dinh Phung

Learning semantic-rich representations from raw unlabeled time series data is critical for downstream tasks such as classification and forecasting. Contrastive learning has recently shown its promising representation learning capability in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Qianwen Meng , Hangwei Qian , Yong Liu , Lizhen Cui , Yonghui Xu , Zhiqi Shen

Correlation clustering is a central topic in unsupervised learning, with many applications in ML and data mining. In correlation clustering, one receives as input a signed graph and the goal is to partition it to minimize the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Silvio Lattanzi , Slobodan Mitrović , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Nikos Parotsidis , Jakub Tarnawski

In this paper we study the persistent homology associated with topological crackle generated by distributions with an unbounded support. Persistent homology is a topological and algebraic structure that tracks the creation and destruction…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-04 Takashi Owada , Omer Bobrowski