Steinhaus Filtration and Stable Paths in the Mapper

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Autores principales: Arendt, Dustin L., Broussard, Matthew, Krishnamoorthy, Bala, Saul, Nathaniel, Thrall, Amber
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author Arendt, Dustin L.
Broussard, Matthew
Krishnamoorthy, Bala
Saul, Nathaniel
Thrall, Amber
author_facet Arendt, Dustin L.
Broussard, Matthew
Krishnamoorthy, Bala
Saul, Nathaniel
Thrall, Amber
contents We define a new filtration called the Steinhaus filtration built from a single cover based on a generalized Steinhaus distance, a generalization of Jaccard distance. The homology persistence module of a Steinhaus filtration with infinitely many cover elements may not be $q$-tame, even when the covers are in a totally bounded space. While this may pose a challenge to derive stability results, we show that the Steinhaus filtration is stable when the cover is finite. We show that while the Čech and Steinhaus filtrations are not isomorphic in general, they are isomorphic for a finite point set in dimension one. Furthermore, the VR filtration completely determines the $1$-skeleton of the Steinhaus filtration in arbitrary dimension. We then develop a language and theory for stable paths within the Steinhaus filtration. We demonstrate how the framework can be applied to several applications where a standard metric may not be defined but a cover is readily available. We introduce a new perspective for modeling recommendation system datasets. As an example, we look at a movies dataset and we find the stable paths identified in our framework represent a sequence of movies constituting a gentle transition and ordering from one genre to another. For explainable machine learning, we apply the Mapper algorithm for model induction by building a filtration from a single Mapper complex, and provide explanations in the form of stable paths between subpopulations. For illustration, we build a Mapper complex from a supervised machine learning model trained on the FashionMNIST dataset. Stable paths in the Steinhaus filtration provide improved explanations of relationships between subpopulations of images.
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Arendt, Dustin L.
Broussard, Matthew
Krishnamoorthy, Bala
Saul, Nathaniel
Thrall, Amber
Machine Learning
Computational Geometry
Algebraic Topology
We define a new filtration called the Steinhaus filtration built from a single cover based on a generalized Steinhaus distance, a generalization of Jaccard distance. The homology persistence module of a Steinhaus filtration with infinitely many cover elements may not be $q$-tame, even when the covers are in a totally bounded space. While this may pose a challenge to derive stability results, we show that the Steinhaus filtration is stable when the cover is finite. We show that while the Čech and Steinhaus filtrations are not isomorphic in general, they are isomorphic for a finite point set in dimension one. Furthermore, the VR filtration completely determines the $1$-skeleton of the Steinhaus filtration in arbitrary dimension. We then develop a language and theory for stable paths within the Steinhaus filtration. We demonstrate how the framework can be applied to several applications where a standard metric may not be defined but a cover is readily available. We introduce a new perspective for modeling recommendation system datasets. As an example, we look at a movies dataset and we find the stable paths identified in our framework represent a sequence of movies constituting a gentle transition and ordering from one genre to another. For explainable machine learning, we apply the Mapper algorithm for model induction by building a filtration from a single Mapper complex, and provide explanations in the form of stable paths between subpopulations. For illustration, we build a Mapper complex from a supervised machine learning model trained on the FashionMNIST dataset. Stable paths in the Steinhaus filtration provide improved explanations of relationships between subpopulations of images.
title Steinhaus Filtration and Stable Paths in the Mapper
topic Machine Learning
Computational Geometry
Algebraic Topology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08256