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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

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

We present a machine learning approach that leverages persistent homology to classify bacterial flagellar motors into two functional states: rotated and stalled. By embedding protein structural data into a topological framework, we extract…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-19 Zakaria Lamine , Abdelatif Hafid , Mohamed Rahouti

The inner representation of deep neural networks (DNNs) is indecipherable, which makes it difficult to tune DNN models, control their training process, and interpret their outputs. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to investigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Satoru Watanabe , Hayato Yamana

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) allows us to extract powerful topological and higher-order information on the global shape of a data set or point cloud. Tools like Persistent Homology or the Euler Transform give a single complex description…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Vincent P. Grande , Michael T. Schaub

Persistent homology (PH) is a recently developed theory in the field of algebraic topology to study shapes of datasets. It is an effective data analysis tool that is robust to noise and has been widely applied. We demonstrate a general…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Yu-Min Chung , Chuan-Shen Hu , Yu-Lun Lo , Hau-Tieng Wu

Persistent Homology (PH) allows tracking homology features like loops, holes and their higher-dimensional analogs, along with a single-parameter family of nested spaces. Currently, computing descriptors for complex data characterized by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Sara Scaramuccia , Federico Iuricich , Leila De Floriani , Claudia Landi

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

Over the last two decades, topological data analysis (TDA) has emerged as a very powerful data analytic approach which can deal with various data modalities of varying complexities. One of the most commonly used tools in TDA is persistent…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-08 Anass El Yaagoubi Bourakna , Moo K. Chung , Hernando Ombao

Persistent homology (PH) is an approach to topological data analysis (TDA) that computes multi-scale topologically invariant properties of high-dimensional data that are robust to noise. While PH has revealed useful patterns across various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Manu Aggarwal , Vipul Periwal

Recently, persistent homology has had tremendous success in biomolecular data analysis. It works by examining the topological relationship or connectivity of a group of atoms in a molecule at a variety of scales, then rendering a family of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-27 David Bramer , Guo-Wei Wei

Persistent homology analysis, a recently developed computational method in algebraic topology, is applied to the study of the phase transitions undergone by the so-called XY-mean field model and by the phi^4 lattice model, respectively. For…

In medical image analysis, feature engineering plays an important role in the design and performance of machine learning models. Persistent homology (PH), from the field of topological data analysis (TDA), demonstrates robustness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Dashti A. Ali , Richard K. G. Do , William R. Jarnagin , Aras T. Asaad , Amber L. Simpson

Through the use of examples, we explain one way in which applied topology has evolved since the birth of persistent homology in the early 2000s. The first applications of topology to data emphasized the global shape of a dataset, such as…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-04-23 Henry Adams , Michael Moy

Prediction and discovery of new materials with desired properties are at the forefront of quantum science and technology research. A major bottleneck in this field is the computational resources and time complexity related to finding new…

High-quality training data is the foundation of machine learning and artificial intelligence, shaping how models learn and perform. Although much is known about what types of data are effective for training, the impact of the data's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yang Ba , Mohammad Sadeq Abolhasani , Rong Pan

Persistent homology (PH) is a rigorous mathematical theory that provides a robust descriptor of data in the form of persistence diagrams (PDs) which are 2D multisets of points. Their variable size makes them, however, difficult to combine…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-14 Bartosz Zielinski , Michal Lipinski , Mateusz Juda , Matthias Zeppelzauer , Pawel Dlotko

A central problem in data-driven scientific inquiry is how to interpret structure in noisy, high-dimensional data. Topological data analysis (TDA) provides a solution via persistent homology, which encodes features of interest as…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Christian Lentz , Gregory Henselman-Petrusek , Lori Ziegelmeier

Inferring topological and geometrical information from data can offer an alternative perspective on machine learning problems. Methods from topological data analysis, e.g., persistent homology, enable us to obtain such information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Christoph Hofer , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Andreas Uhl

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a rapidly evolving field in applied mathematics and data science that leverages tools from topology to uncover robust, shape-driven insights in complex datasets. The main workhorse is persistent homology,…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Zhe Su , Xiang Liu , Layal Bou Hamdan , Vasileios Maroulas , Jie Wu , Gunnar Carlsson , Guo-Wei Wei