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Multigraded Betti numbers are one of the simplest invariants of multiparameter persistence modules. This invariant is useful in theory -- it completely determines the Hilbert function of the module and the isomorphism type of the free…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Steve Oudot , Luis Scoccola

We introduce a refinement of the persistence diagram, the graded persistence diagram. It is the Mobius inversion of the graded rank function, which is obtained from the rank function using the unary numeral system. Both persistence diagrams…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Leo Betthauser , Peter Bubenik , Parker B. Edwards

Wasserstein barycentres represent average distributions between multiple probability measures for the Wasserstein distance. The numerical computation of Wasserstein barycentres is notoriously challenging. A common approach is to use…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Eloi Tanguy , Julie Delon , Nathaël Gozlan

This paper develops the idea of homology for 1-parameter families of topological spaces. We express parametrized homology as a collection of real intervals with each corresponding to a homological feature supported over that interval or,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Gunnar Carlsson , Vin de Silva , Sara Kalisnik , Dmitriy Morozov

In topological data analysis (TDA), persistence diagrams have been a succesful tool. To compare them, Wasserstein and Bottleneck distances are commonly used. We address the shortcomings of these metrics and show a way to investigate them in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Paweł Dłotko , Niklas Hellmer

We introduce persistence spheres, a novel functional representation of persistence diagrams. Unlike existing embeddings (such as persistence images, landscapes, or kernel methods), persistence spheres provide a bi-continuous mapping: they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Matteo Pegoraro

Wasserstein barycenters provide a principled approach for aggregating probability measures, while preserving the geometry of their ambient space. Existing discrete methods are not scalable as they assume access to the complete set of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-10 Eduardo Fernandes Montesuma , Yassir Bendou , Mike Gartrell

Let $n$ be a positive integer. We provide an explicit geometrically motivated $1$-Lipschitz map from the space of persistence diagrams on $n$ points (equipped with the Bottleneck distance) into the Hilbert space $\ell^2$. Such maps are a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Atish Mitra , Ziga Virk

We study barycenters of $N$ probability measures on $\mathbb{R}^d$ with respect to the $p$-Wasserstein metric ($1<p<\infty$). We prove that -- $p$-Wasserstein barycenters of absolutely continuous measures are unique, and again absolutely…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Camilla Brizzi , Gero Friesecke , Tobias Ried

We develop an estimator-based stochastic fixed-point framework for approximately computing the 2-Wasserstein barycenter of continuous, non-parametric probability measures. Notably, we provide the first rigorous convergence analysis for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Zeyi Chen , Ariel Neufeld , Qikun Xiang

We define notions of differentiability for maps from and to the space of persistence barcodes. Inspired by the theory of diffeological spaces, the proposed framework uses lifts to the space of ordered barcodes, from which derivatives can be…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Jacob Leygonie , Steve Oudot , Ulrike Tillmann

Machine learning image classifiers are susceptible to adversarial and corruption perturbations. Adding imperceptible noise to images can lead to severe misclassifications of the machine learning model. Using $L_p$-norms for measuring the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Tobias Wegel , Felix Assion , David Mickisch , Florens Greßner

Wasserstein Barycenter is a principled approach to represent the weighted mean of a given set of probability distributions, utilizing the geometry induced by optimal transport. In this work, we present a novel scalable algorithm to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Jiaojiao Fan , Amirhossein Taghvaei , Yongxin Chen

Persistence diagrams (PDs) play a key role in topological data analysis (TDA), in which they are routinely used to describe topological properties of complicated shapes. PDs enjoy strong stability properties and have proven their utility in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Mathieu Carrière , Marco Cuturi , Steve Oudot

This paper presents a robust and efficient method for tracking topological features in time-varying scalar data. Structures are tracked based on the optimal matching between persistence diagrams with respect to the Wasserstein metric. This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-03 Maxime Soler , Mélanie Plainchault , Bruno Conche , Julien Tierny

We strengthen the usual stability theorem for Vietoris-Rips (VR) persistent homology of finite metric spaces by building upon constructions due to Usher and Zhang in the context of filtered chain complexes. The information present at the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Facundo Mémoli , Ling Zhou

Persistent homology offers a powerful tool for extracting hidden topological signals from brain networks. It captures the evolution of topological structures across multiple scales, known as filtrations, thereby revealing topological…

One-dimensional persistent homology is arguably the most important and heavily used computational tool in topological data analysis. Additional information can be extracted from datasets by studying multi-dimensional persistence modules and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-31 Facundo Mémoli , Anastasios Stefanou , Ling Zhou

The persistence barcode is a topological descriptor of data that plays a fundamental role in topological data analysis. Given a filtration of the space of data, a persistence barcode tracks the evolution of its homological features. In this…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Salman Parsa , Bei Wang

We prove an equivalence between open questions about the embeddability of the space of persistence diagrams and the space of probability distributions (i.e.~Wasserstein space). It is known that for many natural metrics, no coarse embedding…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Neil Pritchard , Thomas Weighill