Statistical topological data analysis-A kernel perspective

Kwitt R, Huber S, Niethammer M, Lin W, Bauer U. 2015. Statistical topological data analysis-A kernel perspective. NIPS: Neural Information Processing Systems, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, vol. 28, 3070–3078.

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Author
Kwitt, Roland; Huber, StefanISTA ; Niethammer, Marc; Lin, Weili; Bauer, UlrichISTA
Department
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Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
Abstract
We consider the problem of statistical computations with persistence diagrams, a summary representation of topological features in data. These diagrams encode persistent homology, a widely used invariant in topological data analysis. While several avenues towards a statistical treatment of the diagrams have been explored recently, we follow an alternative route that is motivated by the success of methods based on the embedding of probability measures into reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. In fact, a positive definite kernel on persistence diagrams has recently been proposed, connecting persistent homology to popular kernel-based learning techniques such as support vector machines. However, important properties of that kernel enabling a principled use in the context of probability measure embeddings remain to be explored. Our contribution is to close this gap by proving universality of a variant of the original kernel, and to demonstrate its effective use in twosample hypothesis testing on synthetic as well as real-world data.
Publishing Year
Date Published
2015-12-01
Acknowledgement
This work was partially supported by the Austrian Science FUnd, project no. KLI 00012.
Volume
28
Page
3070 - 3078
Conference
NIPS: Neural Information Processing Systems
Conference Location
Montreal, Canada
Conference Date
2015-12-07 – 2015-12-12
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Kwitt R, Huber S, Niethammer M, Lin W, Bauer U. Statistical topological data analysis-A kernel perspective. In: Vol 28. Neural Information Processing Systems; 2015:3070-3078.
Kwitt, R., Huber, S., Niethammer, M., Lin, W., & Bauer, U. (2015). Statistical topological data analysis-A kernel perspective (Vol. 28, pp. 3070–3078). Presented at the NIPS: Neural Information Processing Systems, Montreal, Canada: Neural Information Processing Systems.
Kwitt, Roland, Stefan Huber, Marc Niethammer, Weili Lin, and Ulrich Bauer. “Statistical Topological Data Analysis-A Kernel Perspective,” 28:3070–78. Neural Information Processing Systems, 2015.
R. Kwitt, S. Huber, M. Niethammer, W. Lin, and U. Bauer, “Statistical topological data analysis-A kernel perspective,” presented at the NIPS: Neural Information Processing Systems, Montreal, Canada, 2015, vol. 28, pp. 3070–3078.
Kwitt R, Huber S, Niethammer M, Lin W, Bauer U. 2015. Statistical topological data analysis-A kernel perspective. NIPS: Neural Information Processing Systems, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, vol. 28, 3070–3078.
Kwitt, Roland, et al. Statistical Topological Data Analysis-A Kernel Perspective. Vol. 28, Neural Information Processing Systems, 2015, pp. 3070–78.
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