Top-level heading

Algebraic Wasserstein distances and stable homological invariants of data

Data e ora inizio evento
Data e ora fine evento
Sede

Dipartimento di Matematica, U Roma Tor Vergata

Aula esterna
Aula Dal Passo
Speaker ed affiliazione
Andrea Guidolin
Persistent homology, a popular method in Topological Data Analysis, encodes geometric information of data into algebraic objects called persistence modules. Invoking a decomposition theorem, these algebraic objects are usually represented as multisets of points in the plane, called persistence diagrams, which can be fruitfully used in data analysis in combination with statistical or machine learning methods. Wasserstein distances between persistence diagrams are a common way to compare the outputs of the persistent homology pipeline. In this talk, I will explain how a notion of p-norm for persistence modules leads to an algebraic version of Wasserstein distances which fit into a general framework for producing distances between persistence modules. I will then present stable invariants of persistence modules which depend on Wasserstein distances and can be computed efficiently. The use of these invariants in a supervised learning context will be illustrated with some examples.
Contatti/Organizzatori
niels.kowalzig@uniroma2.it