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Topological Data Analysis (TDA) has emerged as a powerful framework for extracting robust, multiscale, and interpretable features from complex molecular data for artificial intelligence (AI) modeling and topological deep learning (TDL).…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-23 JunJie Wee , Jian Jiang

A primary hypothesis that drives scientific and engineering studies is that data has structure. The dominant paradigms for describing such structure are statistics (e.g., moments, correlation functions) and signal processing (e.g.,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Alexander D. Smith , Pawel Dlotko , Victor M. Zavala

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) provides a pipeline to extract quantitative topological descriptors from structured objects. This enables the definition of topological loss functions, which assert to what extent a given object exhibits some…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Mathieu Carriere , Marc Theveneau , Théo Lacombe

In this paper we develop a novel Topological Data Analysis (TDA) approach for studying graph representations of time series of dynamical systems. Specifically, we show how persistent homology, a tool from TDA, can be used to yield a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-28 Audun Myers , Elizabeth Munch , Firas A. Khasawneh

In this paper, we propose a point cloud classification method based on graph neural network and manifold learning. Different from the conventional point cloud analysis methods, this paper uses manifold learning algorithms to embed point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Dinghao Yang , Wei Gao

Reconstructing models from unorganized point clouds presents a significant challenge, especially when the models consist of multiple components represented by their surface point clouds. Such models often involve point clouds with noise…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yu Chen , Hongwei Lin

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) provides powerful tools to explore the shape and structure of data through topological features such as clusters, loops, and voids. Persistence diagrams are a cornerstone of TDA, capturing the evolution of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Alexander Mironenko , Evgeny. Burnaev , Serguei Barannikov

Learning and analyzing 3D point clouds with deep networks is challenging due to the sparseness and irregularity of the data. In this paper, we present a data-driven point cloud upsampling technique. The key idea is to learn multi-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Lequan Yu , Xianzhi Li , Chi-Wing Fu , Daniel Cohen-Or , Pheng-Ann Heng

Modern business and economic datasets often exhibit nonlinear, multi-scale structures that traditional linear tools under-represent. Topological Data Analysis (TDA) offers a geometric lens for uncovering robust patterns, such as connected…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-18 Ioannis Diamantis

Topology applied to real world data using persistent homology has started to find applications within machine learning, including deep learning. We present a differentiable topology layer that computes persistent homology based on level set…

We present Topological Point Cloud Clustering (TPCC), a new method to cluster points in an arbitrary point cloud based on their contribution to global topological features. TPCC synthesizes desirable features from spectral clustering and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Vincent P. Grande , Michael T. Schaub

TDA (topological data analysis) is a relatively new area of research related to importing classical ideas from topology into the realm of data analysis. Under the umbrella term TDA, there falls, in particular, the notion of persistent…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Facundo Memoli , Kritika Singhal

Point cloud analysis is challenging due to its unique characteristics of unorderness, sparsity and irregularity. Prior works attempt to capture local relationships by convolution operations or attention mechanisms, exploiting geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Jiangyi Wang , Zhongyao Cheng , Na Zhao , Jun Cheng , Xulei Yang

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 a powerful tool in Topological Data Analysis (TDA) to capture topological properties of data succinctly at different spatial resolutions. For graphical data, shape, and structure of the neighborhood of individual data…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Sumit Bhatia , Bapi Chatterjee , Deepak Nathani , Manohar Kaul

Point cloud completion seeks to recover geometrically consistent shapes from partial or sparse 3D observations. Although recent methods have achieved reasonable global shape reconstruction, they often rely on Euclidean proximity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Jianan Sun , Dongzhihan Wang , Mingyu Fan

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

Over the last two decades, topological data analysis (TDA) has emerged as a very powerful data analytic approach which can deal with various data modalities of varying complexities. One of the most commonly used tools in TDA is persistent…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-08 Anass El Yaagoubi Bourakna , Moo K. Chung , Hernando Ombao

Point clouds are an increasingly relevant data type but they are often corrupted by noise. We propose a deep neural network based on graph-convolutional layers that can elegantly deal with the permutation-invariance problem encountered by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Francesca Pistilli , Giulia Fracastoro , Diego Valsesia , Enrico Magli

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