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Persistent homology is a widely used tool in Topological Data Analysis that encodes multiscale topological information as a multi-set of points in the plane called a persistence diagram. It is difficult to apply statistical theory directly…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-03 Frédéric Chazal , Brittany Terese Fasy , Fabrizio Lecci , Alessandro Rinaldo , Larry Wasserman

Persistent homology, a technique from computational topology, has recently shown strong empirical performance in the context of graph classification. Being able to capture long range graph properties via higher-order topological features,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Rubén Ballester , Bastian Rieck

Hypergraphs are useful mathematical models for describing complex relationships among members of a structured graph, while hyperdigraphs serve as a generalization that can encode asymmetric relationships in the data. However, obtaining…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-04-10 Dong Chen , Jian Liu , Jie Wu , Guo-Wei Wei

Understanding the structure of high-dimensional data is fundamental to neuroscience and other data-intensive scientific fields. While persistent homology effectively identifies basic topological features such as "holes," it lacks the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Ekaterina S. Ivshina , Galit Anikeeva , Ling Zhou

In this paper we present a new approach to computing homology (with field coefficients) and persistent homology. We use concepts from discrete Morse theory, to provide an algorithm which can be expressed solely in terms of simple graph…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2012-10-26 Paweł Dłotko , Hubert Wagner

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

Topological data analysis (TDA) is gaining prominence across a wide spectrum of machine learning tasks that spans from manifold learning to graph classification. A pivotal technique within TDA is persistent homology (PH), which furnishes an…

Recently, persistent homology has had tremendous success in biomolecular data analysis. It works by examining the topological relationship or connectivity of a group of atoms in a molecule at a variety of scales, then rendering a family of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-27 David Bramer , Guo-Wei Wei

Disobeying the classical wisdom of statistical learning theory, modern deep neural networks generalize well even though they typically contain millions of parameters. Recently, it has been shown that the trajectories of iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Tolga Birdal , Aaron Lou , Leonidas Guibas , Umut Şimşekli

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

Topological data analysis (TDA) is an emerging mathematical concept for characterizing shapes in complex data. In TDA, persistence diagrams are widely recognized as a useful descriptor of data, and can distinguish robust and noisy…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Genki Kusano , Kenji Fukumizu , Yasuaki Hiraoka

We introduce a subsampling method for topological data analysis based on strong collapses of simplicial complexes. Given a point cloud and a scale parameter $\delta$, we construct a subsampling that preserves both global and local…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Elias Gabriel Minian

Over the last two decades, topological data analysis (TDA) has emerged as a very powerful data analytic approach which can deal with various data modalities of varying complexities. One of the most commonly used tools in TDA is persistent…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-08 Anass El Yaagoubi Bourakna , Moo K. Chung , Hernando Ombao

Computational topology provides a tool, persistent homology, to extract quantitative descriptors from structured objects (images, graphs, point clouds, etc). These descriptors can then be involved in optimization problems, typically as a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Mathieu Carriere , Yuichi Ike , Théo Lacombe , Naoki Nishikawa

Persistent homology (PH) is a popular tool for topological data analysis that has found applications across diverse areas of research. It provides a rigorous method to compute robust topological features in discrete experimental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Manu Aggarwal , Vipul Periwal

Persistent homology (PH) is one of the most popular tools in topological data analysis (TDA), while graph theory has had a significant impact on data science. Our earlier work introduced the persistent spectral graph (PSG) theory as a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Rui Wang , Rundong Zhao , Emily Ribando-Gros , Jiahui Chen , Yiying Tong , Guo-Wei Wei

Multidimensional persistence studies topological features of shapes by analyzing the lower level sets of vector-valued functions. The rank invariant completely determines the multidimensional analogue of persistent homology groups. We prove…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-08-04 Andrea Cerri , Barbara Di Fabio , Massimo Ferri , Patrizio Frosini , Claudia Landi

Persistent homology is a popular data analysis technique that is used to capture the changing topology of a filtration associated with some simplicial complex $K$. These topological changes are summarized in persistence diagrams. We propose…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Tamal K. Dey , Ryan Slechta

In recent years, topological data analysis has been utilized for a wide range of problems to deal with high dimensional noisy data. While text representations are often high dimensional and noisy, there are only a few work on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Shafie Gholizadeh , Armin Seyeditabari , Wlodek Zadrozny

Topological data analysis involves the statistical characterization of the shape of data. Persistent homology is a primary tool of topological data analysis, which can be used to analyze topological features and perform statistical…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-01 Chul Moon , Nicole A. Lazar