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Many datasets can be viewed as a noisy sampling of an underlying space, and tools from topological data analysis can characterize this structure for the purpose of knowledge discovery. One such tool is persistent homology, which provides a…

We propose a computationally and statistically efficient divide-and-conquer (DAC) algorithm to fit sparse Cox regression to massive datasets where the sample size $n_0$ is exceedingly large and the covariate dimension $p$ is not small but…

Computation · Statistics 2018-04-04 Yan Wang , Nathan Palmer , Qian Di , Joel Schwartz , Isaac Kohane , Tianxi Cai

We characterize structures such as monotonicity, convexity, and modality in smooth regression curves using persistent homology. Persistent homology is a key tool in topological data analysis that detects higher-dimensional topological…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Satish Kumar , Subhra Sankar Dhar

Divide and Conquer (DC) is conceptually well suited to high-dimensional optimization by decomposing a problem into multiple small-scale sub-problems. However, appealing performance can be seldom observed when the sub-problems are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Peng Yang , Ke Tang , Xin Yao

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

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

Assume that a finite set of points is randomly sampled from a subspace of a metric space. Recent advances in computational topology have provided several approaches to recovering the geometric and topological properties of the underlying…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Peter Bubenik , Peter T. Kim

Persistent homology, a powerful mathematical tool for data analysis, summarizes the shape of data through tracking topological features across changes in different scales. Classical algorithms for persistent homology are often constrained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Bernardo Ameneyro , George Siopsis , Vasileios Maroulas

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 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

In topological data analysis, persistent homology is used to study the "shape of data". Persistent homology computations are completely characterized by a set of intervals called a bar code. It is often said that the long intervals…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Peter Bubenik , Michael Hull , Dhruv Patel , Benjamin Whittle

We present a parallelizable algorithm for computing the persistent homology of a filtered chain complex. Our approach differs from the commonly used reduction algorithm by first computing persistence pairs within local chunks, then…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2013-03-05 Ulrich Bauer , Michael Kerber , Jan Reininghaus

Topological data analysis combines machine learning with methods from algebraic topology. Persistent homology, a method to characterize topological features occurring in data at multiple scales is of particular interest. A major obstacle to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-04-25 Nello Blaser , Morten Brun

In this article, we advance divide-and-conquer strategies for solving the community detection problem in networks. We propose two algorithms which perform clustering on a number of small subgraphs and finally patches the results into a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-21 Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee , Purnamrita Sarkar , Peter J. Bickel

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a rapidly evolving field in applied mathematics and data science that leverages tools from topology to uncover robust, shape-driven insights in complex datasets. The main workhorse is persistent homology,…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Zhe Su , Xiang Liu , Layal Bou Hamdan , Vasileios Maroulas , Jie Wu , Gunnar Carlsson , Guo-Wei Wei

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

In computer science, divide and conquer (D&C) is an algorithm design paradigm based on multi-branched recursion. A D&C algorithm works by recursively and monotonically breaking down a problem into sub problems of the same (or a related)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Diego Gabriel Krivochen

A method is presented for the distributed computation of persistent homology, based on an extension of the generalized Mayer-Vietoris principle to filtered spaces. Cellular cosheaves and spectral sequences are used to compute global…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Iris H. R. Yoon , Robert Ghrist

Persistent homology is a widely-used tool in topological data analysis (TDA) for understanding the underlying shape of complex data. By constructing a filtration of simplicial complexes from data points, it captures topological features…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Aleksei Luchinsky , Umar Islambekov

Persistent homology provides a new approach for the topological simplification of big data via measuring the life time of intrinsic topological features in a filtration process and has found its success in scientific and engineering…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-12-09 Bao Wang , Guo-Wei Wei