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Persistent homology is a popular tool in Topological Data Analysis. It provides numerical characteristics of data sets which reflect global geometric properties. In order to be useful in practice, for example for feature generation in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Boris Goldfarb

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 (PH) is an approach to topological data analysis (TDA) that computes multi-scale topologically invariant properties of high-dimensional data that are robust to noise. While PH has revealed useful patterns across various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Manu Aggarwal , Vipul Periwal

Persistent homology is a mathematical tool used for studying the shape of data by extracting its topological features. It has gained popularity in network science due to its applicability in various network mining problems, including…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Mehmet Emin Aktas , Thu Nguyen , Rakin Riza , Muhammad Ifte Islam , Esra Akbas

The long computational time and large memory requirements for computing Vietoris Rips persistent homology from point clouds remains a significant deterrent to its application to big data. This paper aims to reduce the memory footprint of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Musashi Ayrton Koyama , Vanessa Robins , Katharine Turner

We provide a comprehensive characterisation of the theoretical properties of the divide-and-conquer sequential Monte Carlo (DaC-SMC) algorithm. We firmly establish it as a well-founded method by showing that it possesses the same basic…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-07-04 Juan Kuntz , Francesca R. Crucinio , Adam M. Johansen

Computational topologists recently developed a method, called persistent homology to analyze data presented in terms of similarity or dissimilarity. Indeed, persistent homology studies the evolution of topological features in terms of a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-08-01 Pavel Petrov , Stephen T Rush , Zhichun Zhai , Christine H Lee , Peter T Kim , Giseon Heo

It is important to choose the geographical distributions of public resources in a fair and equitable manner. However, it is complicated to quantify the equity of such a distribution; important factors include distances to resource sites,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Abigail Hickok , Benjamin Jarman , Michael Johnson , Jiajie Luo , Mason A. Porter

We reduce a broad class of machine learning problems, usually addressed by EM or sampling, to the problem of finding the $k$ extremal rays spanning the conical hull of a data point set. These $k$ "anchors" lead to a global solution and a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-06-24 Tianyi Zhou , Jeff Bilmes , Carlos Guestrin

Computational topology has recently known an important development toward data analysis, giving birth to the field of topological data analysis. Topological persistence, or persistent homology, appears as a fundamental tool in this field.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-28 Frédéric Chazal , Marc Glisse , Catherine Labruère , Bertrand Michel

In this paper, a new method is proposed for sparse PCA based on the recursive divide-and-conquer methodology. The main idea is to separate the original sparse PCA problem into a series of much simpler sub-problems, each having a closed-form…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-12-03 Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng , Zongben Xu

We approach the problem of the computation of persistent homology for large datasets by a divide-and-conquer strategy. Dividing the total space into separate but overlapping components, we are able to limit the total memory residency for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-19 David Lipsky , Primoz Skraba , Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson

Divide-and-conquer-based (DC-based) evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have achieved notable success in dealing with large-scale optimization problems (LSOPs). However, the appealing performance of this type of algorithms generally requires a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Zhigang Ren , Yongsheng Liang , Muyi Wang , Yang Yang , An Chen

A crucial step in the analysis of persistent homology is the transformation of data into an appropriate topological object (in our case, a simplicial complex). Modern packages for persistent homology often construct Vietoris--Rips or other…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Michelle Feng , Mason A. Porter

Divide-and-conquer is a central paradigm for the design of algorithms, through which some fundamental computational problems, such as sorting arrays and computing convex hulls, are solved in optimal time within $\Theta(n\log{n})$ in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-28 Jeremy Barbay , Carlos Ochoa , Pablo Perez-Lantero

Topological Data Analysis has grown in popularity in recent years as a way to apply tools from algebraic topology to large data sets. One of the main tools in topological data analysis is persistent homology. This paper uses undergraduate…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Cheyne Glass , Elizabeth Vidaurre

Most applications demand high-performance deep neural architectures costing limited resources. Neural architecture searching is a way of automatically exploring optimal deep neural networks in a given huge search space. However, all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Yunhe Wang , Yixing Xu , Dacheng Tao

Persistence diagrams have been widely used to quantify the underlying features of filtered topological spaces in data visualization. In many applications, computing distances between diagrams is essential; however, computing these distances…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Yu Qin , Brittany Terese Fasy , Carola Wenk , Brian Summa

Spectral clustering is one of the most popular clustering methods. However, how to balance the efficiency and effectiveness of the large-scale spectral clustering with limited computing resources has not been properly solved for a long…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Hongmin Li , Xiucai Ye , Akira Imakura , Tetsuya Sakurai

The extension of persistent homology to multi-parameter setups is an algorithmic challenge. Since most computation tasks scale badly with the size of the input complex, an important pre-processing step consists of simplifying the input…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Ulderico Fugacci , Michael Kerber