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Deep artificial neural networks require a large corpus of training data in order to effectively learn, where collection of such training data is often expensive and laborious. Data augmentation overcomes this issue by artificially inflating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Luke Taylor , Geoff Nitschke

In recent years, many data augmentation techniques have been proposed to increase the diversity of input data and reduce the risk of overfitting on deep neural networks. In this work, we propose an easy-to-implement and model-free data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Kun He , Chang Liu , Stephen Lin , John E. Hopcroft

Deep topological data analysis (TDA) offers a principled framework for capturing structural invariants such as connectivity and cycles that persist across scales, making it a natural fit for anomaly segmentation (AS). Unlike thresholdbased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Ali Zia , Usman Ali , Umer Ramzan , Abdul Rehman , Abdelwahed Khamis , Wei Xiang

Representation learning on graphs is a fundamental problem that can be crucial in various tasks. Graph neural networks, the dominant approach for graph representation learning, are limited in their representation power. Therefore, it can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Zuoyu Yan , Qi Zhao , Ze Ye , Tengfei Ma , Liangcai Gao , Zhi Tang , Yusu Wang , Chao Chen

We introduce a very general approach to the analysis of signals from their noisy measurements from the perspective of Topological Data Analysis (TDA). While TDA has emerged as a powerful analytical tool for data with pronounced topological…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Juan Manuel Miramont , Kin Aun Tan , Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee , Rémi Bardenet , Subhroshekhar Ghosh

Statistical analysis on object data presents many challenges. Basic summaries such as means and variances are difficult to compute. We apply ideas from topology to study object data. We present a framework for using persistence landscapes…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-12-12 Vic Patrangenaru , Peter Bubenik , Robert L. Paige , Daniel Osborne

Graph neural networks, a powerful deep learning tool to model graph-structured data, have demonstrated remarkable performance on numerous graph learning tasks. To address the data noise and data scarcity issues in deep graph learning, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Kaize Ding , Zhe Xu , Hanghang Tong , Huan Liu

Topological data analysis provides a multiscale description of the geometry and topology of quantitative data. The persistence landscape is a topological summary that can be easily combined with tools from statistics and machine learning.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Peter Bubenik , Pawel Dlotko

The inner representation of deep neural networks (DNNs) is indecipherable, which makes it difficult to tune DNN models, control their training process, and interpret their outputs. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to investigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Satoru Watanabe , Hayato Yamana

Topological statistics, in the form of persistence diagrams, are a class of shape descriptors that capture global structural information in data. The mapping from data structures to persistence diagrams is almost everywhere differentiable,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-24 Elchanan Solomon , Alexander Wagner , Paul Bendich

Topological features play an essential role in ensuring geometric plausibility and structural consistency in image analysis tasks such as segmentation and skeletonization. However, integrating topology-preserving learning based on simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Wenxiao Li , Faqiang Wang , Yuping Duan , Li Cui , Liqiang Zhang , Jun Liu

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

Large time-varying graphs are increasingly common in financial, social and biological settings. Feature extraction that efficiently encodes the complex structure of sparse, multi-layered, dynamic graphs presents computational and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Umar Islambekov , Hasani Pathirana , Omid Khormali , Cuneyt Akcora , Ekaterina Smirnova

The topological analysis of four-dimensional (4D) image-type data is challenged by the immense size that these datasets can reach. This can render the direct application of methods, like persistent homology and convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Khalil Mathieu Hannouch , Stephan Chalup

Persistent homology is a fundamental tool in Topological Data Analysis. The associated algebraic structure is the persistence module, a sequence of vector spaces connected by linear maps. Persistence modules admit a complete and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-13 R. Gonzalez-Diaz , M. Soriano-Trigueros , A. Torras-Casas

Topological data analysis is an emerging mathematical concept for characterizing shapes in multi-scale data. In this field, persistence diagrams are widely used as a descriptor of the input data, and can distinguish robust and noisy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-13 Genki Kusano , Kenji Fukumizu , Yasuaki Hiraoka

We propose a simple yet novel data augmentation method for general data modalities based on energy-based modeling and principles from information geometry. Unlike most existing learning-based data augmentation methods, which rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Pingbang Hu , Mahito Sugiyama

Understanding how the spatial structure of blood vessel networks relates to their function in healthy and abnormal biological tissues could improve diagnosis and treatment for diseases such as cancer. New imaging techniques can generate…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-23 Helen M Byrne , Heather A Harrington , Ruth Muschel , Gesine Reinert , Bernadette J Stolz , Ulrike Tillmann

Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in the application of persistent homology, a topological tool for data analysis, to machine learning problems. Persistent homology is known for its ability to numerically characterize the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Jen-Yu Liu , Shyh-Kang Jeng , Yi-Hsuan Yang

We characterize structures such as monotonicity, convexity, and modality in smooth regression curves using persistent homology. Persistent homology is a key tool in topological data analysis that detects higher-dimensional topological…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Satish Kumar , Subhra Sankar Dhar