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Sheaf cohomology or, more generally, higher direct images of coherent sheaves along proper morphisms are central to modern algebraic geometry. However, the computation of these objects is a non-trivial and expensive task which easily…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Matthias Zach

Higher order networks are able to characterize data as different as functional brain networks, protein interaction networks and social networks beyond the framework of pairwise interactions. Most notably higher order networks include…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-11-26 Daan Mulder , Ginestra Bianconi

In many tissues, cell type varies over single-cell length-scales, creating detailed spatial heterogeneities fundamental to physiological function. To gain understanding of this relationship between tissue function and detailed structure,…

We initiate the study of sheaves on Cech closure spaces, providing a new, unified approach to sheaf theory on many of the major classes of spaces of interest to applications: topological spaces, finite simplicial complexes (seen as $T_0$…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Antonio Rieser

Recently various types of topological Laplacians have been studied from the perspective of data analysis. The spectral theory of these Laplacians has significantly extended the scope of algebraic topology and data analysis. Inspired by the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Xiaoqi Wei , Guo-Wei Wei

We introduce and develop the theory of metric sheaves. A metric sheaf $\A$ is defined on a topological space $X$ such that each fiber is a metric model. We describe the construction of the generic model as the quotient space of the sheaf…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-04-06 Maicol A. Ochoa , Andrés Villaveces

Sheaf Neural Networks (SNNs) represent a powerful generalization of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) that significantly improve our ability to model complex relational data. While directionality has been shown to substantially boost performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Stefano Fiorini , Hakan Aktas , Iulia Duta , Stefano Coniglio , Pietro Morerio , Alessio Del Bue , Pietro Liò

This paper introduces cellular sheaf theory to graphical methods and reciprocal constructions in structural engineering. The elementary mechanics and statics of trusses are derived from the linear algebra of sheaves and cosheaves. Further,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Zoe Cooperband , Robert Ghrist , Jakob Hansen

This document develops general concepts useful for extracting knowledge embedded in large graphs or datasets that have pair-wise relationships, such as cause-effect-type relations. Almost no underlying assumptions are made, other than that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Linas Vepstas

Heterogeneous graphs, whose nodes and edges can belong to different types and feature spaces, arise in many real-world domains, including biology, recommendation, social networks, and computer systems. Existing heterogeneous graph neural…

Cell complexes are topological spaces constructed from simple blocks called cells. They generalize graphs, simplicial complexes, and polyhedral complexes that form important domains for practical applications. They also provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Mustafa Hajij , Kyle Istvan , Ghada Zamzmi

We introduce a sheaf-theoretic characterization of task solvability in general distributed computing models, unifying distinct approaches to message-passing models. We establish cellular sheaves as a natural mathematical framework for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Stephan Felber , Bernardo Hummes Flores , Hugo Rincon Galeana

Equipping graph neural networks with a convolution operation defined in terms of a cellular sheaf offers advantages for learning expressive representations of heterophilic graph data. The most flexible approach to constructing the sheaf is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Patrick Gillespie , Layal Bou Hamdan , Ioannis Schizas , David L. Boothe , Vasileios Maroulas

Membrane particles such as proteins and lipids organize into zones that perform unique functions. Here, I introduce a topological and category-theoretic framework to represent particle and zone intra-scale interactions and inter-scale…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-01 Troy A. Kervin

In this paper, we try to realize the unbounded derived category of an abelian category as the homotopy category of a Quillen model structure on the category of unbounded chain complexes. We construct such a model structure based on…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mark Hovey

We provide generalizations of the notions of Atiyah class and Kodaira-Spencer map to the case of framed sheaves. Moreover, we construct closed two-forms on the moduli spaces of framed sheaves on surfaces. As an application, we define a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-14 Francesco Sala

A Sheaf Neural Network (SNN) is a type of Graph Neural Network (GNN) that operates on a sheaf, an object that equips a graph with vector spaces over its nodes and edges and linear maps between these spaces. SNNs have been shown to have…

Shape graphs are complex geometrical structures commonly found in biological and anatomical systems. A shape graph is a collection of nodes, some connected by curvilinear edges with arbitrary shapes. Their high complexity stems from the…

Computation · Statistics 2024-09-17 Benjamin Beaudett , Anuj Srivastava

Advances in imaging methods such as electron microscopy, tomography and other modalities are enabling high-resolution reconstructions of cellular and organelle geometries. Such advances pave the way for using these geometries for…

This paper initiates a discrete Hodge theory for cellular sheaves taking values in a category of lattices and Galois connections. The key development is the Tarski Laplacian, an endomorphism on the cochain complex whose fixed points yield a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-04-15 Robert Ghrist , Hans Riess