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Persistent Homology (PH) offers stable, multi-scale descriptors of intrinsic shape structure by capturing connected components, loops, and voids that persist across scales, providing invariants that complement purely geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Prachi Kudeshia , Jiju Poovvancheri , Amr Ghoneim , Dong Chen

We build a functorial pipeline for persistent homology. The input to this pipeline is a filtered simplicial complex indexed by any finite metric lattice and the output is a persistence diagram defined as the M\"obius inversion of its…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-08-29 Alexander McCleary , Amit Patel

Recent years have witnessed a tremendous growth using topological summaries, especially the persistence diagrams (encoding the so-called persistent homology) for analyzing complex shapes. Intuitively, persistent homology maps a potentially…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Samantha Chen , Yusu Wang

This article studies the robust version of persistent homology based on trimming methodology to capture the geometric feature through support of the data in presence of outliers. Precisely speaking, the proposed methodology works when the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-01 Tuhin Subhra Mahato , Subhra Sankar Dhar

In this paper we consider two topological transforms that are popular in applied topology: the Persistent Homology Transform (PHT) and the Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT). Both of these transforms are of interest for their mathematical…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-27 Justin Curry , Sayan Mukherjee , Katharine Turner

Persistent homology (PH) is a method for generating topology-inspired representations of data. Empirical studies that investigate the properties of PH, such as its sensitivity to perturbations or ability to detect a feature of interest,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Shuang Liang , Renata Turkeš , Jiayi Li , Nina Otter , Guido Montúfar

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is an approach to handle with big data by studying its shape. A main tool of TDA is the persistence diagram, and one can use it to compare data sets. One approach to learn on the similarity between two…

Applications · Statistics 2020-03-04 Sarit Agami

Biological and physical systems often exhibit distinct structures at different spatial/temporal scales. Persistent homology is an algebraic tool that provides a mathematical framework for analyzing the multi-scale structures frequently…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Jonathan Jaquette , Miroslav Kramár

Persistent homology is a multiscale method for analyzing the shape of sets and functions from point cloud data arising from an unknown distribution supported on those sets. When the size of the sample is large, direct computation of the…

We redevelop persistent homology (topological persistence) from a categorical point of view. The main objects of study are diagrams, indexed by the poset of real numbers, in some target category. The set of such diagrams has an interleaving…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Peter Bubenik , Jonathan A. Scott

Persistent Topology studies topological features of shapes by analyzing the lower level sets of suitable functions, called filtering functions, and encoding the arising information in a parameterized version of the Betti numbers, i.e. the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2010-05-05 Andrea Cerri , Patrizio Frosini

The natural pseudo-distance of spaces endowed with filtering functions is precious for shape classification and retrieval; its optimal estimate coming from persistence diagrams is the bottleneck distance, which unfortunately suffers from…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-07-09 Barbara Di Fabio , Massimo Ferri

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

Persistent homology (PH) is one of the most popular methods in Topological Data Analysis. Even though PH has been used in many different types of applications, the reasons behind its success remain elusive; in particular, it is not known…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Renata Turkeš , Guido Montúfar , Nina Otter

Persistent homology (PH) is a recently developed theory in the field of algebraic topology to study shapes of datasets. It is an effective data analysis tool that is robust to noise and has been widely applied. We demonstrate a general…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Yu-Min Chung , Chuan-Shen Hu , Yu-Lun Lo , Hau-Tieng Wu

Information networks are becoming increasingly popular to capture complex relationships across various disciplines, such as social networks, citation networks, and biological networks. The primary challenge in this domain is measuring…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Mehmet Emin Aktas , Esra Akbas , Ahmed El Fatmaoui

Appropriately representing elements in a database so that queries may be accurately matched is a central task in information retrieval; recently, this has been achieved by embedding the graphical structure of the database into a manifold in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-10 Yueqi Cao , Athanasios Vlontzos , Luca Schmidtke , Bernhard Kainz , Anthea Monod

Persistent Homology (PH) is a fundamental tool in computational topology, designed to uncover the intrinsic geometric and topological features of data across multiple scales. Originating within the broader framework of Topological Data…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Aurelie Jodelle Kemme , Collins Amburo Agyingi

Persistent homology analysis provides means to capture the connectivity structure of data sets in various dimensions. On the mathematical level, by defining a metric between the objects that persistence attaches to data sets, we can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Henri Riihimäki , José Licón-Saláiz

Persistent homology, a powerful mathematical tool for data analysis, summarizes the shape of data through tracking topological features across changes in different scales. Classical algorithms for persistent homology are often constrained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Bernardo Ameneyro , George Siopsis , Vasileios Maroulas