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Topological Data Analysis (TDA) provides a toolkit for the study of the shape of high dimensional and complex data. While operating on a space of persistence diagrams is cumbersome, persistence norms provide a simple real value measure of…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-09-26 Pawel Dlotko , Simon Rudkin

In this paper, we propose a method that extends the persistence-based topological data analysis (TDA) that is typically used for characterizing shapes to general networks. We introduce the concept of the community tree, a tree structure…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Wei Guo , Ruqian Chen , Yen-Chi Chen , Ashis G. Banerjee

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

Exploring the shape of point configurations has been a key driver in the evolution of TDA (short for topological data analysis) since its infancy. This survey illustrates the recent efforts to broaden these ideas to model spatial…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Sebastiano Cultrera di Montesano , Ondrej Draganov , Herbert Edelsbrunner , Morteza Saghafian

Temporal graphs are commonly used to represent time-resolved relations between entities in many natural and artificial systems. Many techniques were devised to investigate the evolution of temporal graphs by comparing their state at…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Lorenzo Dall'Amico , Alain Barrat , Ciro Cattuto

This work incorporates topological features via persistence diagrams to classify point cloud data arising from materials science. Persistence diagrams are multisets summarizing the connectedness and holes of given data. A new distance on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-11 Vasileios Maroulas , Cassie Putman Micucci , Adam Spannaus

The natural occurrence of singular spaces in applications has led to recent investigations on performing topological data analysis (TDA) in a stratified framework. In many applications, there is no a priori information on what points should…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Tim Mäder , Lukas Waas

In this article, we introduce a Topological Data Analysis (TDA) pipeline for neural spike train data. Understanding how the brain transforms sensory information into perception and behavior requires analyzing coordinated neural population…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-10 Cagatay Ayhan , Audrey N. Nash , Roberto Vincis , Martin Bauer , Richard Bertram , Tom Needham

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is an emergent field that aims to discover topological information hidden in a dataset. TDA tools have been commonly used to create filters and topological descriptors to improve Machine Learning (ML)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Rolando Kindelan , José Frías , Mauricio Cerda , Nancy Hitschfeld

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) combines computational topology and data science to extract and analyze intrinsic topological and geometric structures in data set in a metric space. While the persistent homology (PH), a widely used tool in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Chuanshen Hu , Yu Wang , Kelin Xia , Ke Ye , Yipeng Zhang

We introduce a general class of distances (metrics) between Markov chains, which are based on linear behaviour. This class encompasses distances given topologically (such as the total variation distance or trace distance) as well as by…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Przemysław Daca , Thomas A. Henzinger , Jan Křetínský , Tatjana Petrov

Mapper graphs are widely used tools in topological data analysis and visualization. They can be understood as discrete approximations of Reeb graphs, providing insight into the shape and connectivity of complex data. Given a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Erin Wolf Chambers , Ishika Ghosh , Elizabeth Munch , Sarah Percival , Bei Wang

This paper extends the key concept of persistence within Topological Data Analysis (TDA) in a new direction. TDA quantifies topological shapes hidden in unorganized data such as clouds of unordered points. In the 0-dimensional case the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Yury Elkin , Vitaliy Kurlin

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a rapidly developing collection of methods for studying the shape of point cloud and other data types. One popular approach, designed to be robust to noise and outliers, is to first use a smoothing…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-27 Chul Moon , Noah Giansiracusa , Nicole A. Lazar

In a world abundant with diverse data arising from complex acquisition techniques, there is a growing need for new data analysis methods. In this paper we focus on high-dimensional data that are organized into several hierarchical datasets.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Lior Aloni , Omer Bobrowski , Ronen Talmon

Despite the remarkable accuracies attained by machine learning classifiers to separate complex datasets in a supervised fashion, most of their operation falls short to provide an informed intuition about the structure of data, and, what is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Aina Ferrà , Gloria Cecchini , Fritz-Pere Nobbe Fisas , Carles Casacuberta , Ignasi Cos

Many topological data analysis (TDA) pipelines compute large collections of persistence diagrams, yet vectorizations and kernel methods discard the rank-induced implication relations among persistence intervals that are essential for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Charles Fanning , Mehmet Aktas

Data consisting of a graph with a function mapping into $\mathbb{R}^d$ arise in many data applications, encompassing structures such as Reeb graphs, geometric graphs, and knot embeddings. As such, the ability to compare and cluster such…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Erin W. Chambers , Elizabeth Munch , Sarah Percival , Bei Wang

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…

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