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Topological Data Analysis (TDA) can be used to detect and characterize holes in an image, such as zero-dimensional holes (connected components) or one-dimensional holes (loops). However, there is currently no widely accepted statistical…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-26 Susan Glenn , Jessi Cisewski-Kehe , Jun Zhu , William M Bement

The Persistent Homology Transform (PHT) was introduced in the field of Topological Data Analysis about 10 years ago, and has since been proven to be a very powerful descriptor of Euclidean shapes. The PHT consists of scanning a shape from…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-25 Adam Onus , Nina Otter , Renata Turkes

The surge of data available on the Internet has driven the adoption of a wide range of computational methods for analyzing and extracting insights from large-scale data. Among these, Machine Learning (ML) has become a central paradigm,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Adaku Uchendu , Thai Le

A primary hypothesis that drives scientific and engineering studies is that data has structure. The dominant paradigms for describing such structure are statistics (e.g., moments, correlation functions) and signal processing (e.g.,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Alexander D. Smith , Pawel Dlotko , Victor M. Zavala

Persistent homology is a tool that can be employed to summarize the shape of data by quantifying homological features. When the data is an object in $\mathbb{R}^d$, the (augmented) persistent homology transform ((A)PHT) is a family of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Brittany Terese Fasy , Samuel Micka , David L. Millman , Anna Schenfisch , Lucia Williams

Characterizing the structural properties of neural networks is crucial yet poorly understood, and there are no well-established similarity measures between networks. In this work, we observe that neural networks can be represented as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 David Pérez-Fernández , Asier Gutiérrez-Fandiño , Jordi Armengol-Estapé , Marta Villegas

Persistent homology (PH) encodes global information, such as cycles, and is thus increasingly integrated into graph neural networks (GNNs). PH methods in GNNs typically traverse an increasing sequence of subgraphs. In this work, we first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Mattie Ji , Indradyumna Roy , Vikas Garg

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

We present a way to use Topological Data Analysis (TDA) for machine learning tasks on grayscale images. We apply persistent homology to generate a wide range of topological features using a point cloud obtained from an image, its natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Adélie Garin , Guillaume Tauzin

This article introduces an algorithm to compute the persistent homology of a filtered complex with various coefficient fields in a single matrix reduction. The algorithm is output-sensitive in the total number of distinct persistent…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Jean-Daniel Boissonnat , Clément Maria

The persistent homology transform (PHT) represents a shape with a multiset of persistence diagrams parameterized by the sphere of directions in the ambient space. In this work, we describe a finite set of diagrams that discretize the PHT…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Brittany Terese Fasy , Samuel Micka , David L. Millman , Anna Schenfisch , Lucia Williams

Persistent homology, a technique from computational topology, has recently shown strong empirical performance in the context of graph classification. Being able to capture long range graph properties via higher-order topological features,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Rubén Ballester , Bastian Rieck

3-D shape is important to chemistry, but how important? Machine learning works best when the inputs are simple and match the problem well. Chemistry datasets tend to be very small compared to those generally used in machine learning so we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Ella Gale

Persistent homology (PH) is a relatively new field in applied mathematics that studies the components and shapes of discrete data. In this work, we demonstrate that PH can be used as a universal framework to identify phases in spin models,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-11 Bart Olsthoorn , Johan Hellsvik , Alexander V. Balatsky

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 present a way to apply topological data analysis for classifying encrypted bits into distinct classes. Persistent homology is applied to generate topological features of a point cloud obtained from sets of encryptions. We see that this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Jayati Kaushik , Aaruni Kaushik , Upasana Parashar

Persistent homology (PH) is one of the main methods used in Topological Data Analysis. An active area of research in the field is the study of appropriate notions of PH representatives, which allow to interpret the meaning of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Antonio Leitao , Nina Otter

In this paper we introduce a statistic, the persistent homology transform (PHT), to model surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ and shapes in $\mathbb{R}^2$. This statistic is a collection of persistence diagrams - multiscale topological summaries…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-16 Katharine Turner , Sayan Mukherjee , Doug M Boyer

Spatial transcriptomics studies are becoming increasingly large and commonplace, necessitating simultaneous analysis of a large number of spatially resolved variables. Correspondingly, a diverse range of methodologies have been proposed to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-09 James Boyle , Gregory Hamm , Eleanor Williams , Robin JG Hartman , Magnus Soderburg , Ian Henry , Michael Casey

The analysis of nonlinear dynamics is an important issue in numerous fields of science. In this study, we propose a new method to analyze the time series data using persistent homology (PH). The key idea is the application of PH to the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-04-04 Takashi Ichinomiya