arXiv Machine Learning

Persistent Homology of Time Series through Complex Networks

The paper introduces a unified pipeline that classifies univariate time series by first converting them into graphs using one of five constructions from three families (visibility, transition, proximity). The resulting graph is turned into a dissimilarity matrix, from which a Vietoris–Rips filtration produces persistence diagrams that are vectorized via persistence landscapes and topological summary statistics. Experiments on twelve UCR benchmarks reveal that no single graph construction dominates, diffusion distance consistently outperforms shortest-path metrics, and persistence-based features remain robust to noise.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 18

Unreduced Persistence Diagrams for Topological Machine Learning

arXiv:2507. 07156v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Supervised machine learning pipelines trained on features derived from persistent homology have been experimentally observed to ignore much of the information contained in a persistence diagram.

By Nicole Abreu, Parker B. Edwards, Francis Motta
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 11

From Persistence to Survival: Hypothesis Testing, Effect Sizes and Vectorisation for Topological Features

arXiv:2606. 11911v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Persistence diagrams are common representations in topological data analysis, but they do not naturally live in a vector space, and the statistical tools developed for comparing them have largely evolved separately from those used for downstream prediction.

By Juliette Murris, Bernadette Stolz, Karsten Borgwardt
arXiv Machine Learning
5d ago

A New Non-archimedean Metric on Persistent Homology

The article introduces a new non‑archimedean metric, the cophenetic metric, defined on persistent homology classes of all degrees. It demonstrates that zeroth persistent homology combined with this metric and various hierarchical clustering algorithms yields statistically verifiable, commensurate topological information on multiple datasets. The resulting clusters, evaluated by silhouette score and Rand index, perform well, and the metric enables visualization of inter‑relations among persistent homology classes across all degrees via rooted trees.

By \.Ismail G\"uzel, Atabey Kaygun
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 17

What Do Temporal Graph Learning Models Learn?

arXiv:2510. 09416v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning on temporal graphs has become a central topic in graph representation learning, with numerous benchmarks indicating the strong performance of state-of-the-art models.

By Abigail J. Hayes, Tobias Schumacher, Markus Strohmaier