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The Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP for short) is a generalization of the well-studied Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). The PCSP has its roots in such classic problems as the Approximate Graph Coloring and the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Arash Beikmohammadi , Andrei A. Bulatov

Modern representation learning increasingly relies on unsupervised and self-supervised methods trained on large-scale unlabeled data. While these approaches achieve impressive generalization across tasks and domains, evaluating embedding…

We introduce persistence matching diagrams induced by set mappings of metric spaces, based on 0-persistent homology of Vietoris-Rips filtrations. Also, we present a geometric definition of the persistence matching diagram that is more…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Alvaro Torras-Casas , Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz

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

We study distributions of persistent homology barcodes associated to taking subsamples of a fixed size from metric measure spaces. We show that such distributions provide robust invariants of metric measure spaces, and illustrate their use…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-01-20 Andrew J. Blumberg , Itamar Gal , Michael A. Mandell , Matthew Pancia

We give an upper bound on the topological complexity of varieties $\mathcal{V}$ obtained as complements in $\mathbb{C}^m$ of the zero locus of a polynomial. As an application, we determine the topological complexity of unordered…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Andrea Bianchi

Given a finite set in a metric space, the topological analysis generalizes hierarchical clustering using a 1-parameter family of homology groups to quantify connectivity in all dimensions. The connectivity is compactly described by the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Herbert Edelsbrunner , Hubert Wagner

We describe a new methodology for studying persistence of topological features across a family of spaces or point-cloud data sets, called zigzag persistence. Building on classical results about quiver representations, zigzag persistence…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2008-12-02 Gunnar Carlsson , Vin de Silva

Transitivity, the existence of periodic points and positive topological entropy can be used to characterize complexity in dynamical systems. It is known that for graphs that are not trees, for every $\varepsilon>0,$ there exist (complicate)…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-07-05 Lluís Alsedà , Liane Bordignon , Jorge Groisman

We introduce \emph{local Urysohn width}, a complexity measure for classification problems on metric spaces. Unlike VC dimension, fat-shattering dimension, and Rademacher complexity, which characterize the richness of hypothesis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xin Li

Solving optimization tasks based on functions and losses with a topological flavor is a very active, growing field of research in data science and Topological Data Analysis, with applications in non-convex optimization, statistics and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Mathieu Carrière , Frédéric Chazal , Marc Glisse , Yuichi Ike , Hariprasad Kannan

In this paper we analyze some relationships between the topological complexity of a space $X$ and the category of $C_{\Delta_X},$ the homotopy cofibre of the diagonal map $\Delta_X:X\rightarrow X\times X.$ We establish the equality of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2012-02-23 J. Calcines , L. Vandembroucq

This paper aims to discuss a method of quantifying the 'shape' of data, via a methodology called topological data analysis. The main tool within topological data analysis is persistent homology; this is a means of measuring the shape of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Tristan Gowdridge , Nikolaos Devilis , Keith Worden

Existing research highlights the crucial role of topological priors in image segmentation, particularly in preserving essential structures such as connectivity and genus. Accurately capturing these topological features often requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Wenxiao Li , Xue-Cheng Tai , Jun Liu

Persistent homology is a popular and powerful tool for capturing topological features of data. Advances in algorithms for computing persistent homology have reduced the computation time drastically -- as long as the algorithm does not…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-10-03 Ulrich Bauer , Michael Kerber , Jan Reininghaus

The use of persistent homology in applications is justified by the validity of certain stability results. At the core of such results is a notion of distance between the invariants that one associates with data sets. Here we introduce a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Barbara Giunti , John S. Nolan , Nina Otter , Lukas Waas

Persistence diagrams are objects that play a central role in topological data analysis. In the present article, we investigate the local and global geometric properties of spaces of persistence diagrams. In order to do this, we construct a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-09 Mauricio Che , Fernando Galaz-García , Luis Guijarro , Ingrid Amaranta Membrillo Solis

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…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Jian Liu , Dong Chen , Guo-Wei Wei

In topological data analysis persistence modules are used to distinguish the legitimate topological features of a finite data set from noise. Interleavings between persistence modules feature prominantly in the analysis. One can show that…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Ojaswi Acharya , Stella Li , David Meyer , Jasmine Noory

Topological data analysis provides a set of tools to uncover low-dimensional structure in noisy point clouds. Prominent amongst the tools is persistence homology, which summarizes birth-death times of homological features using data objects…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-05 James Matuk , Sebastian Kurtek , Karthik Bharath