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This paper introduces topological data analysis. Starting from notions of a metric space and some elementary graph theory, we take example sets of data and demonstrate some of their topological properties. We discuss simplicial complexes…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2020-04-09 Dayten Sheffar

This paper describes a localized algorithm for the topological simplification of scalar data, an essential pre-processing step of topological data analysis (TDA). Given a scalar field f and a selection of extrema to preserve, the proposed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Jonas Lukasczyk , Christoph Garth , Ross Maciejewski , Julien Tierny

We study detection of collapse in high-dimensional point clouds, where mass concentrates near a lower-dimensional set relative to a non-collapsed geometry. We propose persistent homology-based test statistics under two well-studied…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Alexander Kalinowski

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a rising field in the intersection of mathematics, statistics, and computer science/data science. The cornerstone of TDA is persistent homology, which produces a summary of topological information called a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yu-Min Chung , Michael Hull , Austin Lawson , Neil Pritchard

Topological data analysis (TDA) detects geometric structure in biological data. However, many TDA algorithms are memory intensive and impractical for massive datasets. Here, we introduce a statistical protocol that reduces TDA's memory…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-05 Andrew J. Stier , Naichen Shi , Raed Al Kontar , Chad Giusti , Marc G. Berman

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) provides powerful tools to explore the shape and structure of data through topological features such as clusters, loops, and voids. Persistence diagrams are a cornerstone of TDA, capturing the evolution of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Alexander Mironenko , Evgeny. Burnaev , Serguei Barannikov

Persistent homology is a widely-used tool in topological data analysis (TDA) for understanding the underlying shape of complex data. By constructing a filtration of simplicial complexes from data points, it captures topological features…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Aleksei Luchinsky , Umar Islambekov

Persistent (co)homology is a central construction in topological data analysis, where it is used to quantify prominence of features in data to produce stable descriptors suitable for downstream analysis. Persistence is challenging to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Arnur Nigmetov , Dmitriy Morozov

A central problem in data-driven scientific inquiry is how to interpret structure in noisy, high-dimensional data. Topological data analysis (TDA) provides a solution via persistent homology, which encodes features of interest as…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Christian Lentz , Gregory Henselman-Petrusek , Lori Ziegelmeier

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a recent and growing branch of statistics devoted to the study of the shape of the data. In this work we investigate the predictive power of TDA in the context of supervised learning. Since topological…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-22 Tullia Padellini , Pierpaolo Brutti

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a rapidly growing field, which studies methods for learning underlying topological structures present in complex data representations. TDA methods have found recent success in extracting useful geometric…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-09 Xiaojun Zheng , Simon Mak , Yao Xie

Topological statistics, in the form of persistence diagrams, are a class of shape descriptors that capture global structural information in data. The mapping from data structures to persistence diagrams is almost everywhere differentiable,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-24 Elchanan Solomon , Alexander Wagner , Paul Bendich

Topological data analysis (TDA) offers novel mathematical tools for deep learning. Inspired by Carlsson et al., this study designs topology-aware convolutional kernels that significantly improve speech recognition networks. Theoretically,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Zhiwang Yu

A primary hypothesis that drives scientific and engineering studies is that data has structure. The dominant paradigms for describing such structure are statistics (e.g., moments, correlation functions) and signal processing (e.g.,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Alexander D. Smith , Pawel Dlotko , Victor M. Zavala

Persistent homology is a popular computational tool for analyzing the topology of point clouds, such as the presence of loops or voids. However, many real-world datasets with low intrinsic dimensionality reside in an ambient space of much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Sebastian Damrich , Philipp Berens , Dmitry Kobak

This survey provides a comprehensive exploration of applications of Topological Data Analysis (TDA) within neural network analysis. Using TDA tools such as persistent homology and Mapper, we delve into the intricate structures and behaviors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Rubén Ballester , Carles Casacuberta , Sergio Escalera

Topological Data Analysis (TDA), an emerging field in investment sciences, harnesses mathematical methods to extract data features based on shape, offering a promising alternative to classical portfolio selection methodologies. We utilize…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2026-01-08 Anubha Goel , Amita Sharma , Juho Kanniainen

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

In topological data analysis, a point cloud data P extracted from a metric space is often analyzed by computing the persistence diagram or barcodes of a sequence of Rips complexes built on $P$ indexed by a scale parameter. Unfortunately,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Tamal K. Dey , Dayu Shi , Yusu Wang

Topological data analysis (TDA), as a relatively recent approach, has demonstrated great potential in capturing the intrinsic and robust structural features of complex data. While persistent homology, as a core tool of TDA, focuses on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Jing-Wen Gao , Yunan He , Jian Liu