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The Persistent Homology Transform (PHT) summarizes a shape in $\mathbb{R}^m$ by collecting persistence diagrams obtained from linear height filtrations in all directions on $\mathbb{S}^{m-1}$. It enjoys strong theoretical guarantees,…

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We introduce a new algorithm to parallelise the computation of persistent homology of 2D alpha complexes. Our algorithm distributes the input point cloud among the cores which then compute a cover based on a rectilinear grid. We show how to…

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We introduce a subsampling method for topological data analysis based on strong collapses of simplicial complexes. Given a point cloud and a scale parameter $\delta$, we construct a subsampling that preserves both global and local…

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Persistent homology has been widely used to study the topology of point clouds in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Standard approaches are very sensitive to outliers, and their computational complexity depends badly on the number of data points. In this…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Pepijn Roos Hoefgeest , Lucas Slot

Topological data analysis, as a tool for extracting topological features and characterizing geometric shapes, has experienced significant development across diverse fields. Its key mathematical techniques include persistent homology and the…

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Information networks are becoming increasingly popular to capture complex relationships across various disciplines, such as social networks, citation networks, and biological networks. The primary challenge in this domain is measuring…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Mehmet Emin Aktas , Esra Akbas , Ahmed El Fatmaoui

Persistent homology is a powerful tool for characterizing the topology of a data set at various geometric scales. When applied to the description of molecular structures, persistent homology can capture the multiscale geometric features and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-07-31 Zixuan Cang , Guo-Wei Wei

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a fundamental data preprocessing tool in the world of machine learning. While PCA is often thought of as a dimensionality reduction method, the purpose of PCA is actually two-fold: dimension reduction…

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We introduce a linear dimensionality reduction technique preserving topological features via persistent homology. The method is designed to find linear projection $L$ which preserves the persistent diagram of a point cloud $\mathbb{X}$ via…

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Image and video descriptors are an omnipresent tool in computer vision and its application fields like mobile robotics. Many hand-crafted and in particular learned image descriptors are numerical vectors with a potentially (very) large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Peer Neubert , Stefan Schubert

Algorithms for persistent homology and zigzag persistent homology are well-studied for persistence modules where homomorphisms are induced by inclusion maps. In this paper, we propose a practical algorithm for computing persistence under…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-03-26 Tamal K. Dey , Fengtao Fan , Yusu Wang

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…

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Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering (HAC) is one of the oldest but still most widely used clustering methods. However, HAC is notoriously hard to scale to large data sets as the underlying complexity is at least quadratic in the number of…

Persistent Homology (PH) offers stable, multi-scale descriptors of intrinsic shape structure by capturing connected components, loops, and voids that persist across scales, providing invariants that complement purely geometric…

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We propose Deep Hierarchical Machine (DHM), a model inspired from the divide-and-conquer strategy while emphasizing representation learning ability and flexibility. A stochastic routing framework as used by recent deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Shichao Li , Xin Yang , Tim Cheng

Persistent homology is a tool from Topological Data Analysis (TDA) used to summarize the topology underlying data. It can be conveniently represented through persistence diagrams. Observing a noisy signal, common strategies to infer its…

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Features such as photon rings, jets, or hot. spots can leave particular topological signatures in a black hole image. As such, topological data analysis can be used to characterize images resulting from high resolution observations…

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Persistent homology is a widely used tool in Topological Data Analysis that encodes multiscale topological information as a multi-set of points in the plane called a persistence diagram. It is difficult to apply statistical theory directly…

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Topological data analysis (TDA) delivers invaluable and complementary information on the intrinsic properties of data inaccessible to conventional methods. However, high computational costs remain the primary roadblock hindering the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora , Murat Kantarcioglu , Yulia R. Gel , Baris Coskunuzer

Topological Data Analysis methods can be useful for classification and clustering tasks in many different fields as they can provide two dimensional persistence diagrams that summarize important information about the shape of potentially…

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