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Persistent homology is a multiscale method for analyzing the shape of sets and functions from point cloud data arising from an unknown distribution supported on those sets. When the size of the sample is large, direct computation of the…

Topological data analysis provides a set of tools to uncover low-dimensional structure in noisy point clouds. Prominent amongst the tools is persistence homology, which summarizes birth-death times of homological features using data objects…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-05 James Matuk , Sebastian Kurtek , Karthik Bharath

Persistent homology probes topological properties from point clouds and functions. By looking at multiple scales simultaneously, one can record the births and deaths of topological features as the scale varies. In this paper we use a…

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

Persistent homology is a popular computational tool for analyzing the topology of point clouds, such as the presence of loops or voids. However, many real-world datasets with low intrinsic dimensionality reside in an ambient space of much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Sebastian Damrich , Philipp Berens , Dmitry Kobak

We propose a novel method for topological analysis of unweighted graphs which is based on \textit{persistent homology}. The proposed method maps the input graph to a complete weighted graph where the weighting function maps each edge to a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Padraig Corcoran

Computational topology provides a tool, persistent homology, to extract quantitative descriptors from structured objects (images, graphs, point clouds, etc). These descriptors can then be involved in optimization problems, typically as a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Mathieu Carriere , Yuichi Ike , Théo Lacombe , Naoki Nishikawa

Topological data analysis (TDA) is an emerging mathematical concept for characterizing shapes in complex data. In TDA, persistence diagrams are widely recognized as a useful descriptor of data, and can distinguish robust and noisy…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Genki Kusano , Kenji Fukumizu , Yasuaki Hiraoka

We introduce a consistent estimator for the homology (an algebraic structure representing connected components and cycles) of level sets of both density and regression functions. Our method is based on kernel estimation. We apply this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Omer Bobrowski , Sayan Mukherjee , Jonathan E. Taylor

Surface roughness plays an important role in analyzing engineering surfaces. It quantifies the surface topography and can be used to determine whether the resulting surface finish is acceptable or not. Nevertheless, while several existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Melih C. Yesilli , Firas A. Khasawneh

Persistence diagrams offer a way to summarize topological and geometric properties latent in datasets. While several methods have been developed that utilize persistence diagrams in statistical inference, a full Bayesian treatment remains…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-08-08 Vasileios Maroulas , Farzana Nasrin , Christopher Oballe

Persistent homology analysis provides means to capture the connectivity structure of data sets in various dimensions. On the mathematical level, by defining a metric between the objects that persistence attaches to data sets, we can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Henri Riihimäki , José Licón-Saláiz

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

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) has emerged as a powerful framework for extracting robust and interpretable features from noisy high-dimensional data. In the context of Social Choice Theory, where preference profiles and collective…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Athanasios Andrikopoulos , Nikolaos Sampanis

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

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

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is an approach to handle with big data by studying its shape. A main tool of TDA is the persistence diagram, and one can use it to compare data sets. One approach to learn on the similarity between two…

Applications · Statistics 2020-03-04 Sarit Agami

Estimating signals underlying noisy data is a significant problem in statistics and engineering. Numerous estimators are available in the literature, depending on the observation model and estimation criterion. This paper introduces a…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-09 Woo Min Kim , Sutanoy Dasgupta , Anuj Srivastava

Persistent homology and persistent entropy have recently become useful tools for patter recognition. In this paper, we find requirements under which persistent entropy is stable to small perturbations in the input data and scale invariant.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-22 N. Atienza , R. Gonzalez-Diaz , M. Soriano-Trigueros

High-dimensional reduction methods are powerful tools for describing the main patterns in big data. One of these methods is the topological data analysis (TDA), which modeling the shape of the data in terms of topological properties. This…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-24 Sarit Agami