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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

Knots are deeply entangled with every branch of science. One of the biggest open challenges in knot theory is to formalise a knot invariant that can unambiguously and efficiently distinguish any two knotted curves. Additionally, the…

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

Persistent homology is an area within topological data analysis (TDA) that can uncover different dimensional holes (connected components, loops, voids, etc.) in data. The holes are characterized, in part, by how long they persist across…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-08 Sixtus Dakurah , Jessi Cisewski-Kehe

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

Deep topological data analysis (TDA) offers a principled framework for capturing structural invariants such as connectivity and cycles that persist across scales, making it a natural fit for anomaly segmentation (AS). Unlike thresholdbased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Ali Zia , Usman Ali , Umer Ramzan , Abdul Rehman , Abdelwahed Khamis , Wei Xiang

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

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a rapidly growing area that applies techniques from algebraic topology to extract robust features from large-scale data. A key task in TDA is the estimation of (normalized) Betti numbers, which capture…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Nhat A. Nghiem , Tzu-Chieh Wei

We present an investigation of the applicability of topological data analysis (TDA) to the study of high-resolution confocal microscopy images of fibrin network structures from patients with oesophageal cancer undergoing intended curative…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-22 Thomas Burnett , Theresa Reinhold , Bea Bleile , Sophie Raynor , Freya Jensen , Martin Hermann , Tua Gyldenholm , Yossi Bokor Bleile

Topological data analysis (TDA) has emerged as an effective approach in data science, with its key technique, persistent homology, rooted in algebraic topology. Although alternative approaches based on differential topology, geometric…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Faisal Suwayyid , Guo-Wei Wei

This project explores the mathematical study of knots and links in topology, focusing on differentiating between the two-component Unlink and the Hopf Link using a computational tool named LINKAGE. LINKAGE employs the linking number,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Ratul Chakraborty , Rupak Mukherjee

Topological data analysis (TDA) provides a growing body of tools for computing geometric and topological information about spaces from a finite sample of points. We present a new adaptive algorithm for finding provably dense samples of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Emilie Dufresne , Parker B. Edwards , Heather A. Harrington , Jonathan D. Hauenstein

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a recent and growing branch of statistics devoted to the study of the shape of the data. In this work we investigate the predictive power of TDA in the context of supervised learning. Since topological…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-22 Tullia Padellini , Pierpaolo Brutti

One of the most interesting tools that have recently entered the data science toolbox is topological data analysis (TDA). With the explosion of available data sizes and dimensions, identifying and extracting the underlying structure of a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Seonmi Choi , Jinseok Oh , Jeong Rye Park , Seung Yeop Yang , Hongdae Yun

In this work we use the persistent homology method, a technique in topological data analysis (TDA), to extract essential topological features from the data space and combine them with deep learning features for classification tasks. In TDA,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Mariana Dória Prata Lima , Gilson Antonio Giraldi , Gastão Florêncio Miranda Junior

We use topological data analysis (TDA) to study how data transforms as it passes through successive layers of a deep neural network (DNN). We compute the persistent homology of the activation data for each layer of the network and summarize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Matthew Wheeler , Jose Bouza , Peter Bubenik

Topological data analysis (TDA) uncovers crucial properties of objects in medical imaging. Methods based on persistent homology have demonstrated their advantages in capturing topological features that traditional deep learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Yanfan Zhu , Yash Singh , Khaled Younis , Shunxing Bao , Yuankai Huo

We study here global and local entanglements of open protein chains by implementing the concept of knotoids. Knotoids have been introduced in 2012 by Vladimir Turaev as a generalization of knots in 3-dimensional space. More precisely,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-06 Dimos Goundaroulis , Julien Dorier , Fabrizio Benedetti , Andrzej Stasiak

Topological data analysis (TDA) offers novel mathematical tools for deep learning. Inspired by Carlsson et al., this study designs topology-aware convolutional kernels that significantly improve speech recognition networks. Theoretically,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Zhiwang Yu

In this paper, we introduce a novel way to use geometric deep learning for knot data by constructing a functor that takes knots to graphs and using graph neural networks. We will attempt to predict several knot invariants with this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-05-29 Lennart Jaretzki