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The interleaving distance, although originally developed for persistent homology, has been generalized to measure the distance between functors modeled on many posets or even small categories. Existing theories require that such a poset…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Magnus Bakke Botnan , Justin Curry , Elizabeth Munch

In this work we study the interleaving distance between merge trees from a combinatorial point of view. We use a particular type of matching between trees to obtain a novel formulation of the distance. With such formulation, we tackle the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-11 Matteo Pegoraro

As well-known, inner functions play an important role in the study of bounded analytic function theory. In recent years, persistence module theory, as a main tool applied to Topological Data Analysis, has received widespread attention. In…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Jiaxing He , Bingzhe Hou , Xiao Wang , Yue Xin

One of the central notions to emerge from the study of persistent homology is that of interleaving distance. It has found recent applications in symplectic and contact geometry, sheaf theory, computational geometry, and phylogenetics. Here…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-27 Peter Bubenik , Vin de Silva , Jonathan Scott

Persistent homology is a way of determining the topological properties of a data set. It is well known that each persistence module admits the structure of a representation of a finite totally ordered set. In previous work, the authors…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-11-01 Killian Meehan , David Meyer

Merge trees are fundamental structures in topological data analysis. Interleaving distance is a widely accepted metric for comparing merge trees, with applications in visualization and scientific computing. While a greedy algorithm exists…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Elena Farahbakhsh Touli , Talha Bin Masood

This short note establishes explicit and broadly applicable relationships between persistence-based distances computed locally and globally. In particular, we show that the bottleneck distance between two zigzag persistence modules…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Ellen Gasparovic , Maria Gommel , Emilie Purvine , Radmila Sazdanovic , Bei Wang , Yusu Wang , Lori Ziegelmeier

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

Metrics of interest in topological data analysis (TDA) are often explicitly or implicitly in the form of an interleaving distance $d_{\mathrm{I}}$ between poset maps (i.e. order-preserving maps), e.g. the Gromov-Hausdorff distance between…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Woojin Kim , Facundo Mémoli , Anastasios Stefanou

In this work we define a metric structure to compare functions defined on different merge trees. The metric introduced possesses some stability properties, which we illustrate within a standard topological data analysis (TDA) framework, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Matteo Pegoraro

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

One of the main reasons for topological persistence being useful in data analysis is that it is backed up by a stability (isometry) property: persistence diagrams of $1$-parameter persistence modules are stable in the sense that the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Tamal K. Dey , Cheng Xin

This paper explores persistence modules for circle-valued functions, presenting a new extension of the interleaving and bottleneck distances in this setting. We propose a natural generalisation of barcodes in terms of arcs on a geometric…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Nathan Broomhead , Mariam Pirashvili

Metric learning has become an attractive field for research on the latest years. Loss functions like contrastive loss, triplet loss or multi-class N-pair loss have made possible generating models capable of tackling complex scenarios with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Alfonso Medela , Artzai Picon

Distance measures play an important role in shape classification and data analysis problems. Topological distances based on Reeb graphs and persistence diagrams have been employed to obtain effective algorithms in shape matching and scalar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Yashwanth Ramamurthi , Amit Chattopadhyay

This paper presents a distance function between sets based on an average of distances between their elements. The distance function is a metric if the sets are non-empty finite subsets of a metric space. It can be applied to produce various…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-13 Osamu Fujita

Quantifying degrees of fusion and separability between data groups in representation space is a fundamental problem in representation learning, particularly under domain shift. A meaningful metric should capture fusion-altering factors like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xiaolong Zhang , Jianwei Zhang , Xubo Song

Geometric graphs appear in many real-world data sets, such as road networks, sensor networks, and molecules. We investigate the notion of distance between embedded graphs and present a metric to measure the distance between two geometric…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Erin Wolf Chambers , Elizabeth Munch , Sarah Percival , Xinyi Wang

We present a generalization of the induced matching theorem and use it to prove a generalization of the algebraic stability theorem for $\mathbb{R}$-indexed pointwise finite-dimensional persistence modules. Via numerous examples, we show…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Shaun Harker , Miroslav Kramar , Rachel Levanger , Konstantin Mischaikow

Neural network training is commonly based on SGD. However, the understanding of SGD's ability to converge to good local minima, given the non-convex nature of loss functions and the intricate geometric characteristics of loss landscapes,…