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In inference problems, we often have domain knowledge which allows us to define summary statistics that capture most of the information content in a dataset. In this paper, we present a hybrid approach, where such physics-based summaries…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-24 T. Lucas Makinen , Alan Heavens , Natalia Porqueres , Tom Charnock , Axel Lapel , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Understanding the abundance and distribution of fish in tidal energy streams is important to assess risks presented by introducing tidal energy devices to the habitat. However tidal current flows suitable for tidal energy are often highly…

Topology and machine learning are two actively researched topics not only in condensed matter physics, but also in data science. Here, we propose the use of topological data analysis in unsupervised learning of the topological phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Sungjoon Park , Yoonseok Hwang , Bohm-Jung Yang

The Fisher information is a fundamental concept for characterizing the sensitivity of parameters in neural networks. However, leveraging the full observed Fisher information is too expensive for large models, so most methods rely on simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Viktoriia Chekalina , Daniil Moskovskiy , Daria Cherniuk , Maxim Kurkin , Andrey Kuznetsov , Evgeny Frolov

Gravitational-wave astronomers often wish to characterize the expected parameter-estimation accuracy of future observations. The Fisher matrix provides a lower bound on the spread of the maximum-likelihood estimator across noise…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-08 Michele Vallisneri

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

The 21-cm signal from neutral hydrogen in the early universe will provide unprecedented information about the first stars and galaxies. Extracting this information, however, requires accounting for many unknown astrophysical processes.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-21 Charlotte A. Mason , Julian B. Muñoz , Bradley Greig , Andrei Mesinger , Jaehong Park

Algebraic topology methods have recently played an important role for statistical analysis with complicated geometric structured data such as shapes, linked twist maps, and material data. Among them, \textit{persistent homology} is a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-30 Tam Le , Makoto Yamada

Persistent homology has recently emerged as a powerful technique in topological data analysis for analyzing the emergence and disappearance of topological features throughout a filtered space, shown via persistence diagrams. Additionally,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-12-16 Nicholas A. Scoville , Karthik Yegnesh

In this paper we show how nuisance parameter marginalized posteriors can be inferred directly from simulations in a likelihood-free setting, without having to jointly infer the higher-dimensional interesting and nuisance parameter posterior…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Justin Alsing , Benjamin Wandelt

In this paper, we consider topological featurizations of data defined over simplicial complexes, like images and labeled graphs, obtained by convolving this data with various filters before computing persistence. Viewing a convolution…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Elchanan Solomon , Paul Bendich

Persistent homology offers a powerful tool for extracting hidden topological signals from brain networks. It captures the evolution of topological structures across multiple scales, known as filtrations, thereby revealing topological…

Graph Signal Processing deals with the problem of analyzing and processing signals defined on graphs. In this paper, we introduce a novel filtering method for graph-based signals by employing ideas from topological data analysis. We begin…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Matias de Jong van Lier , Sebastián Elías Graiff Zurita , Shizuo Kaji

We develop a field-level posterior for cosmological data by marginalizing over initial conditions and noise in a general forward model. While our focus is on large-scale structure data, the results generalize to any weakly non-Gaussian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Massimo Pietroni , Fabian Schmidt

In the realm of deep learning, the Fisher information matrix (FIM) gives novel insights and useful tools to characterize the loss landscape, perform second-order optimization, and build geometric learning theories. The exact FIM is either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Alexander Soen , Ke Sun

We develop online graph learning algorithms from streaming network data. Our goal is to track the (possibly) time-varying network topology, and effect memory and computational savings by processing the data on-the-fly as they are acquired.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Rasoul Shafipour , Gonzalo Mateos

We present a way to capture high-information posteriors from training sets that are sparsely sampled over the parameter space for robust simulation-based inference. In physical inference problems, we can often apply domain knowledge to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-26 T. Lucas Makinen , Ce Sui , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Natalia Porqueres , Alan Heavens

Classical Fisher-information asymptotics describe the covariance of regular efficient estimators through the local quadratic approximation of the log-likelihood, and thus capture first-order geometry only. In curved models, including…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Malik Amir , Sourangshu Ghosh

We develop a supervised machine learning algorithm that is able to learn topological phases of finite condensed matter systems from bulk data in real lattice space. The algorithm employs diagonalization in real space together with any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 N. L. Holanda , M. A. R. Griffith

Topology optimization can generate high-performance structures, but designers often need to revise the resulting topology in ways that reflect fabrication preferences, structural intuition, or downstream design constraints. In particular,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Hongrui Chen , Dat Quoc Ha , Josephine V. Carstensen , Faez Ahmed