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We propose a unified framework based on persistent homology (PH) to characterize both local and global structures in disordered systems. It can simultaneously generate local and global descriptors using the same algorithm and data…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-03 An Wang , Li Zou

Persistent homology is a method for probing topological properties of point clouds and functions. The method involves tracking the birth and death of topological features (2000) as one varies a tuning parameter. Features with short…

Understanding the interactions between biomarkers among brain regions during neurodegenerative disease is essential for unravelling the mechanisms underlying disease progression. For example, pathophysiological models of Alzheimer's Disease…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Tiantian He , An Zhao , Elinor Thompson , Anna Schroder , Ahmed Abdulaal , Frederik Barkhof , Daniel C. Alexander

Topological neural networks have emerged as powerful successors of graph neural networks. However, they typically involve higher-order message passing, which incurs significant computational expense. We circumvent this issue with a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Maximilian Krahn , Vikas Garg

We propose a novel method for topological analysis of unweighted graphs which is based on \textit{persistent homology}. The proposed method maps the input graph to a complete weighted graph where the weighting function maps each edge to a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Padraig Corcoran

In many applications concerning the comparison of data expressed by $\mathbb{R}^m$-valued functions defined on a topological space $X$, the invariance with respect to a given group $G$ of self-homeomorphisms of $X$ is required. While…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-29 Patrizio Frosini , Grzegorz Jablonski

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

Graph theoretical approaches have been proven to be effective in the characterization of connected systems, as well as in quantifying their dysfunction due to perturbation. In this paper, we show the advantage of a non-Euclidean…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-10 Alice Longhena , Martin Guillemaud , Mario Chavez

Topological data analysis (TDA) uses persistent homology to quantify loops and higher-dimensional holes in data, making it particularly relevant for examining the characteristics of images of cells in the field of cell biology. In the…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-06 Susan Glenn , Jessi Cisewski-Kehe , Jun Zhu , William M. Bement

Due to the complexity of the human body, most diseases present a high inter-personal variability in the way they manifest, i.e. in their phenotype, which has important clinical repercussions - as for instance the difficulty in defining…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-06 Massimiliano Zanin , Juan Manuel Tuñas , Ernestina Menasalvas

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

With the growing adoption of AI-based systems across everyday life, the need to understand their decision-making mechanisms is correspondingly increasing. The level at which we can trust the statistical inferences made from AI-based…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-15 Adam Spannaus , Heidi A. Hanson , Lynne Penberthy , Georgia Tourassi

Persistence homology is a tool used to measure topological features that are present in data sets and functions. Persistence pairs births and deaths of these features as we iterate through the sublevel sets of the data or function of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-02-10 Brittany Terese Fasy

Two-dimensional (2D) particle systems, such as magnetic skyrmions, exhibit topological phase transitions between unique 2D phases. However, a simple and computationally efficient methodology to capture lattice configurational properties and…

In this work, Transition Probability Matrix (TPM) is proposed as a new method for extracting the features of nodes in the graph. The proposed method uses random walks to capture the connectivity structure of a node's close neighborhood. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Sarmad N. Mohammed , Semra Gündüç

Recently a new feature representation and data analysis methodology based on a topological tool called persistent homology (and its corresponding persistence diagram summary) has started to attract momentum. A series of methods have been…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Qi Zhao , Yusu Wang

Link prediction is an important learning task for graph-structured data. In this paper, we propose a novel topological approach to characterize interactions between two nodes. Our topological feature, based on the extended persistent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Zuoyu Yan , Tengfei Ma , Liangcai Gao , Zhi Tang , Chao Chen

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

In the current paper, we introduce a parametric data-driven model for functional near-infrared spectroscopy that decomposes a signal into a series of independent, rescaled, time-shifted, hemodynamic basis functions. Each decomposed waveform…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-24 Marco A. Pinto-Orellana , Diego C. Nascimento , Peyman Mirtaheri , Rune Jonassen , Anis Yazidi , Hugo L. Hammer

We propose a method, based on persistent homology, to uncover topological properties of a priori unknown covariates of neuron activity. Our input data consist of spike train measurements of a set of neurons of interest, a candidate list of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-10-23 Gard Spreemann , Benjamin Dunn , Magnus Bakke Botnan , Nils A. Baas