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This short paper presents a general approach for computing robust Wasserstein barycenters of persistence diagrams. The classical method consists in computing assignment arithmetic means after finding the optimal transport plans between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Keanu Sisouk , Eloi Tanguy , Julie Delon , Julien Tierny

Distances have a ubiquitous role in persistent homology, from the direct comparison of homological representations of data to the definition and optimization of invariants. In this article we introduce a family of parametrized pseudometrics…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Jens Agerberg , Andrea Guidolin , Isaac Ren , Martina Scolamiero

Learning conditional densities and identifying factors that influence the entire distribution are vital tasks in data-driven applications. Conventional approaches work mostly with summary statistics, and are hence inadequate for a…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-13 Chengliang Tang , Nathan Lenssen , Ying Wei , Tian Zheng

Persistence diagrams have been widely recognized as a compact descriptor for characterizing multiscale topological features in data. When many datasets are available, statistical features embedded in those persistence diagrams can be…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-07-07 Ippei Obayashi , Yasuaki Hiraoka

Interleaving distances are used widely in Topological Data Analysis (TDA) as a tool for comparing topological signatures of datasets. The theory of interleaving distances has been extended through various category-theoretic constructions,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Patrick K. McFaddin , Tom Needham

As the field of Topological Data Analysis continues to show success in theory and in applications, there has been increasing interest in using tools from this field with methods for machine learning. Using persistent homology, specifically…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Sarah Tymochko , Elizabeth Munch , Firas A. Khasawneh

Despite the obvious similarities between the metrics used in topological data analysis and those of optimal transport, an optimal-transport based formalism to study persistence diagrams and similar topological descriptors has yet to come.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Vincent Divol , Théo Lacombe

Deep classifiers may encounter significant performance degradation when processing unseen testing data from varying centers, vendors, and protocols. Ensuring the robustness of deep models against these domain shifts is crucial for their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yuhao Huang , Xin Yang , Xiaoqiong Huang , Xinrui Zhou , Haozhe Chi , Haoran Dou , Xindi Hu , Jian Wang , Xuedong Deng , Dong Ni

Level set estimation (LSE), the problem of identifying the set of input points where a function takes value above (or below) a given threshold, is important in practical applications. When the function is expensive-to-evaluate and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-02 Yu Inatsu , Shion Takeno , Kentaro Kutsukake , Ichiro Takeuchi

We introduce persistence spheres, a novel functional representation of persistence diagrams. Unlike existing embeddings (such as persistence images, landscapes, or kernel methods), persistence spheres provide a bi-continuous mapping: they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Matteo Pegoraro

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

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

Topological data analysis (TDA), as a relatively recent approach, has demonstrated great potential in capturing the intrinsic and robust structural features of complex data. While persistent homology, as a core tool of TDA, focuses on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Jing-Wen Gao , Yunan He , Jian Liu

For general repeated measures designs the Wald-type statistic (WTS) is an asymptotically valid procedure allowing for unequal covariance matrices and possibly non-normal multivariate observations. The drawback of this procedure is the poor…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-06-24 Sarah Friedrich , Edgar Brunner , Markus Pauly

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) refers to an approach that uses concepts from algebraic topology to study the "shapes" of datasets. The main focus of this paper is persistent homology, a ubiquitous tool in TDA. Basing our study on this, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-15 Takashi Owada

We describe the topology of superlevel sets of ($\alpha$-stable) L\'evy processes X by introducing so-called stochastic $\zeta$-functions, which are defined in terms of the widely used $\text{Pers}_p$-functional in the theory of persistence…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Daniel Perez

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) provides tools to describe the shape of data, but integrating topological features into deep learning pipelines remains challenging, especially when preserving local geometric structure rather than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Elena Xinyi Wang , Arnur Nigmetov , Dmitriy Morozov

Recently, diffusion-based test-time adaptations (TTA) have shown great advances, which leverage a diffusion model to map the images in the unknown test domain to the training domain. The unseen and diverse test domains make diffusion-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Kaiyu Song , Hanjiang Lai , Yan Pan , Kun Yue , Jian Yin

A growing number of generative statistical models do not permit the numerical evaluation of their likelihood functions. Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) has become a popular approach to overcome this issue, in which one simulates…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-05-10 Espen Bernton , Pierre E. Jacob , Mathieu Gerber , Christian P. Robert

New inference methods for the multivariate coefficient of variation and its reciprocal, the standardized mean, are presented. While there are various testing procedures for both parameters in the univariate case, it is less known how to do…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-31 Marc Ditzhaus , Łukas Smaga