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The study of topology is strictly speaking, a topic in pure mathematics. However in only a few years, Topological Data Analysis (TDA), which refers to methods of utilizing topological features in data (such as connected components, tunnels,…

Applications · Statistics 2019-09-25 Nalini Ravishanker , Renjie Chen

We introduce a very general approach to the analysis of signals from their noisy measurements from the perspective of Topological Data Analysis (TDA). While TDA has emerged as a powerful analytical tool for data with pronounced topological…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Juan Manuel Miramont , Kin Aun Tan , Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee , Rémi Bardenet , Subhroshekhar Ghosh

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a discipline that applies algebraic topology techniques to analyze complex, multi-dimensional data. Although it is a relatively new field, TDA has been widely and successfully applied across various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Martin Uray , Barbara Giunti , Michael Kerber , Stefan Huber

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

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) offers a suite of computational tools that provide quantified shape features in high dimensional data that can be used by modern statistical and predictive machine learning (ML) models. In particular,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Dominic Gold , Koray Karabina , Francis C. Motta

Accurate bone strength prediction is essential for assessing fracture risk, particularly in aging populations and individuals with osteoporosis. Bone imaging has evolved from X-rays and DXA to clinical computed tomography (CT), and now to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-04 John Rick Manzanares , Richard Leslie Abel , Paweł Dłotko

We discuss a class of models for particulate gels in which the particle contacts are described by an effective interaction combining a two-body attraction and a three-body angular repulsion. Using molecular dynamics, we show how varying the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-05 Minaspi Bantawa , Wayan A. Fontaine-Seiler , Peter D. Olmsted , Emanuela Del Gado

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a rising branch in modern applied mathematics. It extracts topological structures as features of a given space and uses these features to analyze digital data. Persistent homology, one of the central tools…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Chuan-Shen Hu

We develop and validate a simulation framework for colloidal gelation. We first reproduce the benchmark results of Santos, Campanella, and Carignano for spherical, gel-forming particles, then extend the methodology to more complex systems…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-24 Johannes Krotz

Datasets are mathematical objects (e.g., point clouds, matrices, graphs, images, fields/functions) that have shape. This shape encodes important knowledge about the system under study. Topology is an area of mathematics that provides…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Alexander Smith , Victor Zavala

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

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a rising field of computational topology in which the topological structure of a data set can be observed by persistent homology. By considering a sequence of sublevel sets, one obtains a filtration that…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-17 Yu-Min Chung , William Cruse , Austin Lawson

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

Under the banner of `Big Data', the detection and classification of structure in extremely large, high dimensional, data sets, is, one of the central statistical challenges of our times. Among the most intriguing approaches to this…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-08 Robert J. Adler , Sarit Agami , Pratyush Pranav

We propose an unsupervised learning methodology with descriptors based on Topological Data Analysis (TDA) concepts to describe the local structural properties of materials at the atomic scale. Based only on atomic positions and without a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-04-20 Sébastien Becker , Emilie Devijver , Rémi Molinier , Noël Jakse

In this paper, we present a 2D numerical model developed to simulate the dynamics of soft, deformable particles. To accommodate significant particle deformations, the particle surface is represented as a narrow shell composed of mass points…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Yohann Trivino , Vincent Richefeu , Farhang Radjai , Komlanvi Lampoh , Jean-Yves Delenne

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

A novel strategy for extracting axial (AV) and toroidal (TV) vortices in the magnetically-induced current density (MICD) in molecular systems is introduced, and its pilot application to LiH molecule is demonstrated. It exploits differences…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-27 Małgorzata Olejniczak , Julien Tierny

We present a generic framework for modelling three-dimensional deformable shells of active matter that captures the orientational dynamics of the active particles and hydrodynamic interactions on the shell and with the surrounding…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-11-20 Luuk Metselaar , Julia M. Yeomans , Amin Doostmohammadi

Understanding the relationship between the microscopic structure and topology of a material and its macroscopic properties is a fundamental challenge across a wide range of systems. Here, we investigate the viscoelasticity of DNA nanostar…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-03 Giorgia Palombo , Simon Weir , Davide Michieletto , Yair Augusto Gutierrez Fosado