Instability of the Betti sequence for persistent homology and a stabilized version of the Betti sequence

DOI10.12941/JKSIAM.2021.25.296zbMATH Open1501.55005arXiv2109.09218MaRDI QIDQ5095435FDOQ5095435

Authors: Megan Johnson, Jae-Hun Jung 

Publication date: 8 August 2022

Abstract: Topological Data Analysis (TDA), a relatively new field of data analysis, has proved very useful in a variety of applications. The main persistence tool from TDA is persistent homology in which data structure is examined at many scales. Representations of persistent homology include persistence barcodes and persistence diagrams, both of which are not straightforward to reconcile with traditional machine learning algorithms as they are sets of intervals or multisets. The problem of faithfully representing barcodes and persistent diagrams has been pursued along two main avenues: kernel methods and vectorizations. One vectorization is the Betti sequence, or Betti curve, derived from the persistence barcode. While the Betti sequence has been used in classification problems in various applications, to our knowledge, the stability of the sequence has never before been discussed. In this paper we show that the Betti sequence is unstable under the 1-Wasserstein metric with regards to small perturbations in the barcode from which it is calculated. In addition, we propose a novel stabilized version of the Betti sequence based on the Gaussian smoothing seen in the Stable Persistence Bag of Words for persistent homology. We then introduce the normalized cumulative Betti sequence and provide numerical examples that support the main statement of the paper.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.09218

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zbMATH Keywords

persistent homologystabilitytopological data analysisvectorizationBetti sequenceBetti curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Persistent homology and applications, topological data analysis (55N31) Computational methods for problems pertaining to algebraic topology (55-08)

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Uses Software

• PersistenceImages
• PersistenceCurves

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