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Reeb graphs are a fundamental structure for analyzing the topological and geometric properties of scalar fields. Comparing Reeb graphs is crucial for advancing research in this domain, yet existing metrics are often computationally…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Erin W. Chambers , Guangyu Meng

Reeb spaces, as well as their discretized versions called Mappers, are common descriptors used in Topological Data Analysis, with plenty of applications in various fields of science, such as computational biology and data visualization,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Mathieu Carrière , Bertrand Michel

A Reeb graph is a graphical representation of a scalar function on a topological space that encodes the topology of the level sets. A Reeb space is a generalization of the Reeb graph to a multiparameter function. In this paper, we propose…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Qingsong Wang , Guanqun Ma , Raghavendra Sridharamurthy , Bei Wang

We study the probabilistic convergence between the mapper graph and the Reeb graph of a topological space $\mathbb{X}$ equipped with a continuous function $f: \mathbb{X} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$. We first give a categorification of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-08-17 Adam Brown , Omer Bobrowski , Elizabeth Munch , Bei Wang

As graphical summaries for topological spaces and maps, Reeb graphs are common objects in the computer graphics or topological data analysis literature. Defining good metrics between these objects has become an important question for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Mathieu Carrière , Steve Oudot

The Reeb space, which generalizes the notion of a Reeb graph, is one of the few tools in topological data analysis and visualization suitable for the study of multivariate scientific datasets. First introduced by Edelsbrunner et al., it…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Elizabeth Munch , Bei Wang

The Reeb graph is a construction that studies a topological space through the lens of a real valued function. It has widely been used in applications, however its use on real data means that it is desirable and increasingly necessary to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Ulrich Bauer , Elizabeth Munch , Yusu Wang

In this article, we study the question of the statistical convergence of the 1-dimensional Mapper to its continuous analogue, the Reeb graph. We show that the Mapper is an optimal estimator of the Reeb graph, which gives, as a byproduct, a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Mathieu Carrière , Bertrand Michel , Steve Oudot

We study the question of approximating a compact geodesic metric space by metric graphs satisfying a uniform upper bound on their first Betti number. We prove that, up to a suitable multiplicative constant, Reeb graphs of distance functions…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Facundo Memoli , Osman Berat Okutan , Qingsong Wang

Mapper graphs are widely used tools in topological data analysis and visualization. They can be understood as discrete approximations of Reeb graphs, providing insight into the shape and connectivity of complex data. Given a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Erin Wolf Chambers , Ishika Ghosh , Elizabeth Munch , Sarah Percival , Bei Wang

Reeb graphs are an important tool for abstracting and representing the topological structure of a function defined on a manifold. We have identified three properties for faithfully representing Reeb graphs in a visualization: they should be…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Sefat E. Rahman , Tushar M. Athawale , Paul Rosen

The Reeb graph has been utilized in various applications including the analysis of scalar fields. Recently, research has been focused on using topological signatures such as the Reeb graph to compare multiple scalar fields by defining…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Brian Bollen , Erin Chambers , Joshua A. Levine , Elizabeth Munch

We consider the Reeb graph of a thickening of points sampled from an unknown space. Our main contribution is a framework to transfer reconstruction results similar to the well-known work of Niyogi, Smale, and Weinberger to the setting of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Håvard Bakke Bjerkevik , Nello Blaser , Lars M. Salbu

Pairwise comparison of graphs is key to many applications in Machine learning ranging from clustering, kernel-based classification/regression and more recently supervised graph prediction. Distances between graphs usually rely on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-29 Junjie Yang , Matthieu Labeau , Florence d'Alché-Buc

In many real-world applications data come as discrete metric spaces sampled around 1-dimensional filamentary structures that can be seen as metric graphs. In this paper we address the metric reconstruction problem of such filamentary…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Frédéric Chazal , Jian Sun

A novel Gromov-Wasserstein learning framework is proposed to jointly match (align) graphs and learn embedding vectors for the associated graph nodes. Using Gromov-Wasserstein discrepancy, we measure the dissimilarity between two graphs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Hongteng Xu , Dixin Luo , Hongyuan Zha , Lawrence Carin

The challenge of describing model drift is an open question in unsupervised learning. It can be difficult to evaluate at what point an unsupervised model has deviated beyond what would be expected from a different sample from the same…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Michael McCabe

Computational difficulty of quadratic matching and the Gromov-Wasserstein distance has led to various approximation and relaxation schemes. One of such methods, relying on the notion of distance profiles, has been widely used in practice,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-30 YoonHaeng Hur , Yuehaw Khoo

One of the prevailing ideas in geometric and topological data analysis is to provide descriptors that encode useful information about hidden objects from observed data. The Reeb graph is one such descriptor for a given scalar function. The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Ulrich Bauer , Xiaoyin Ge , Yusu Wang

The problem of computing topological distance between two scalar fields based on Reeb graphs or contour trees has been studied and applied successfully to various problems in topological shape matching, data analysis, and visualization.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Yashwanth Ramamurthi , Amit Chattopadhyay
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