Topological consistency via kernel estimation

DOI10.3150/15-BEJ744zbMATH Open1395.62073arXiv1407.5272OpenAlexW152787284MaRDI QIDQ502870FDOQ502870

Authors: Omer Bobrowski, Sayan Mukherjee, Jonathan Taylor 

Publication date: 11 January 2017

Published in: Bernoulli (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a consistent estimator for the homology (an algebraic structure representing connected components and cycles) of level sets of both density and regression functions. Our method is based on kernel estimation. We apply this procedure to two problems: (1) inferring the homology structure of manifolds from noisy observations, (2) inferring the persistent homology (a multi-scale extension of homology) of either density or regression functions. We prove consistency for both of these problems. In addition to the theoretical results, we demonstrate these methods on simulated data for binary regression and clustering applications.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.5272

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zbMATH Keywords

clusteringkernel density estimationtopological data analysishomology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Nonparametric regression and quantile regression (62G08) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Other homology theories in algebraic topology (55N35) Simplicial sets and complexes in algebraic topology (55U10)

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