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We address the problem of estimating topological features from data in high dimensional Euclidean spaces under the manifold assumption. Our approach is based on the computation of persistent homology of the space of data points endowed with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-23 Ximena Fernández , Eugenio Borghini , Gabriel Mindlin , Pablo Groisman

Motivated by persistent homology and topological data analysis, we consider formal sums on a metric space with a distinguished subset. These formal sums, which we call persistence diagrams, have a canonical 1-parameter family of metrics…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Peter Bubenik , Iryna Hartsock

We propose a functorial framework for persistent homology based on finite topological spaces and their associated posets. Starting from a finite metric space, we associate a filtration of finite topologies whose structure maps are…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Selçuk Kayacan

Persistent homology, a central tool of topological data analysis, provides invariants of data called barcodes (also known as persistence diagrams). A barcode is simply a multiset of real intervals. Recent work of Edelsbrunner, Jablonski,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-10-12 Ulrich Bauer , Michael Lesnick

With increasingly ambitious initiatives such as GENI and FIND that seek to design the future Internet, it becomes imperative to define the characteristics of robust topologies, and build future networks optimized for robustness. This paper…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-09-25 Ali Sydney , Caterina Scoglio , Mina Youssef , Phillip Schumm

Although there is no doubt that multi-parameter persistent homology is a useful tool to analyse multi-variate data, efficient ways to compute these modules are still lacking in the available topological data analysis toolboxes. Other issues…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-04-15 Asilata Bapat , Robyn Brooks , Celia Hacker , Claudia Landi , Barbara I. Mahler

Consider a dynamic network and a given distributed problem. At any point in time, there might exist several solutions that are equally good with respect to the problem specification, but that are different from an algorithmic perspective,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Swan Dubois , Laurent Feuilloley , Franck Petit , Mikaël Rabie

Persistent homology captures the evolution of topological features of a model as a parameter changes. The most commonly used summary statistics of persistent homology are the barcode and the persistence diagram. Another summary statistic,…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-04-01 Violeta Kovacev-Nikolic , Peter Bubenik , Dragan Nikolić , Giseon Heo

Persistent homology is a topological feature used in a variety of applications such as generating features for data analysis and penalizing optimization problems. We develop an approach to accelerate persistent homology computations…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Yuan Luo , Bradley J. Nelson

The field of mathematical morphology offers well-studied techniques for image processing. In this work, we view morphological operations through the lens of persistent homology, a tool at the heart of the field of topological data analysis.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yu-Min Chung , Sarah Day , Chuan-Shen Hu

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

The reliability of a learning model is key to the successful deployment of machine learning in various applications. However, it is difficult to describe the phenomenon due to the complicated nature of the problems in machine learning. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ramin Barati , Reza Safabakhsh , Mohammad Rahmati

Decision making and learning in the presence of uncertainty has attracted significant attention in view of the increasing need to achieve robust and reliable operations. In the case where uncertainty stems from the presence of adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 André Bertolace , Konstatinos Gatsis , Kostas Margellos

Persistent homology (PH) is a rigorous mathematical theory that provides a robust descriptor of data in the form of persistence diagrams (PDs). PDs exhibit, however, complex structure and are difficult to integrate in today's machine…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-11 Bartosz Zieliński , Michał Lipiński , Mateusz Juda , Matthias Zeppelzauer , Paweł Dłotko

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

In medical image analysis, feature engineering plays an important role in the design and performance of machine learning models. Persistent homology (PH), from the field of topological data analysis (TDA), demonstrates robustness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Dashti A. Ali , Richard K. G. Do , William R. Jarnagin , Aras T. Asaad , Amber L. Simpson

Persistent homology is an important methodology in topological data analysis which adapts theory from algebraic topology to data settings. Computing persistent homology produces persistence diagrams, which have been successfully used in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-13 Yueqi Cao , Anthea Monod

We introduce a criterion, resilience, which allows properties of a dataset (such as its mean or best low rank approximation) to be robustly computed, even in the presence of a large fraction of arbitrary additional data. Resilience is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Jacob Steinhardt , Moses Charikar , Gregory Valiant

We investigate certain structural properties of random interdependent networks. We start by studying a property known as $r$-robustness, which is a strong indicator of the ability of a network to tolerate structural perturbations and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Ebrahim Moradi Shahrivar , Mohammad Pirani , Shreyas Sundaram

Persistent homology is a branch of computational algebraic topology that studies shapes and extracts features over multiple scales. In this paper, we present an unsupervised approach that uses persistent homology to study divergent behavior…