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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

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) has emerged as a powerful tool for extracting meaningful features from complex data structures, driving significant advancements in fields such as neuroscience, biology, machine learning, and financial…

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Interacting, self-propelled particles such as epithelial cells can dynamically self-organize into complex multicellular patterns, which are challenging to classify without a priori information. Classically, different phases and phase…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-19 Dhananjay Bhaskar , William Y. Zhang , Ian Y. Wong

Time series alignment methods call for highly expressive, differentiable and invertible warping functions which preserve temporal topology, i.e diffeomorphisms. Diffeomorphic warping functions can be generated from the integration of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Iñigo Martinez , Elisabeth Viles , Igor G. Olaizola

A multiscale optimization framework for problems over a space of Lipschitz continuous functions is developed. The method solves a coarse-grid discretization followed by linear interpolation to warm-start project gradient descent on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Nicholas J. E. Richardson , Noah Marusenko , Michael P. Friedlander

By generalizing the notion of linearization, a concept originally arising from microlocal analysis and symbolic calculus, to diffeological spaces, we make a first proposal setting for optimization problems in this category. We show how…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Jean-Pierre Magnot

Discrete stochastic optimization considers the problem of minimizing (or maximizing) loss functions defined on discrete sets, where only noisy measurements of the loss functions are available. The discrete stochastic optimization problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-04 Qi Wang

Topology optimization techniques have been applied in integrated optics and nanophotonics for the inverse design of devices with shapes that cannot be conceived by human intuition. At optical frequencies, these techniques have only been…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-15 Emadeldeen Hassan , Antonio Calà Lesina

This paper describes a localized algorithm for the topological simplification of scalar data, an essential pre-processing step of topological data analysis (TDA). Given a scalar field f and a selection of extrema to preserve, the proposed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Jonas Lukasczyk , Christoph Garth , Ross Maciejewski , Julien Tierny

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) involves techniques of analyzing the underlying structure and connectivity of data. However, traditional methods like persistent homology can be computationally demanding, motivating the development of neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Dylan Peek , Matthew P. Skerritt , Siddharth Pritam , Stephan Chalup

Topological features play an essential role in ensuring geometric plausibility and structural consistency in image analysis tasks such as segmentation and skeletonization. However, integrating topology-preserving learning based on simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Wenxiao Li , Faqiang Wang , Yuping Duan , Li Cui , Liqiang Zhang , Jun Liu

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is the collection of mathematical tools that capture the structure of shapes in data. Despite computational topology and computational geometry, the utilization of TDA in time series and signal processing is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Shafie Gholizadeh , Wlodek Zadrozny

The ``differentiability gap'' presents a primary bottleneck in Earth system deep learning: since models cannot be trained directly on non-differentiable scientific metrics and must rely on smooth proxies (e.g., MSE), they often fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Filippo Quarenghi , Ryan Cotsakis , Tom Beucler

Neural network training is commonly based on SGD. However, the understanding of SGD's ability to converge to good local minima, given the non-convex nature of loss functions and the intricate geometric characteristics of loss landscapes,…

Data augmentation is widely used to train deep learning models to address data scarcity. However, traditional data augmentation (TDA) typically relies on simple geometric transformation, such as random rotation and rescaling, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Dekai Zhu , Stefan Gavranovic , Flavien Boussuge , Benjamin Busam , Slobodan Ilic

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

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a relatively new field that is gaining rapid adoption due to its robustness and ability to effectively describe complex datasets by quantifying geometric information. In imaging contexts, TDA typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Aaryam Sharma

Topological data analysis (TDA) detects geometric structure in biological data. However, many TDA algorithms are memory intensive and impractical for massive datasets. Here, we introduce a statistical protocol that reduces TDA's memory…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-05 Andrew J. Stier , Naichen Shi , Raed Al Kontar , Chad Giusti , Marc G. Berman

Accurate image segmentation remains challenging, particularly in generating sharp, confident boundaries. While modern architectures have advanced the field, many of them still rely on standard loss functions like Cross-Entropy and Dice,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Adam Dawid Sztamborski , Raül Pérez-Gonzalo , Antonio Agudo

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