Detection of Small Holes by the Scale-Invariant Robust Density-Aware Distance (RDAD) Filtration

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Main Authors: Siu, Chunyin, Samorodnitsky, Gennady, Yu, Christina Lee, Yao, Andrey
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author Siu, Chunyin
Samorodnitsky, Gennady
Yu, Christina Lee
Yao, Andrey
author_facet Siu, Chunyin
Samorodnitsky, Gennady
Yu, Christina Lee
Yao, Andrey
contents A novel topological-data-analytical (TDA) method is proposed to distinguish, from noise, small holes surrounded by high-density regions of a probability density function. The proposed method is robust against additive noise and outliers. Traditional TDA tools, like those based on the distance filtration, often struggle to distinguish small features from noise, because both have short persistences. An alternative filtration, called the Robust Density-Aware Distance (RDAD) filtration, is proposed to prolong the persistences of small holes of high-density regions. This is achieved by weighting the distance function by the density in the sense of Bell et al. The concept of distance-to-measure is incorporated to enhance stability and mitigate noise. The persistence-prolonging property and robustness of the proposed filtration are rigorously established, and numerical experiments are presented to demonstrate the proposed filtration's utility in identifying small holes.
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spellingShingle Detection of Small Holes by the Scale-Invariant Robust Density-Aware Distance (RDAD) Filtration
Siu, Chunyin
Samorodnitsky, Gennady
Yu, Christina Lee
Yao, Andrey
Statistics Theory
Computational Geometry
Algebraic Topology
Machine Learning
62R40, 55N31, 52R40, 68T09
A novel topological-data-analytical (TDA) method is proposed to distinguish, from noise, small holes surrounded by high-density regions of a probability density function. The proposed method is robust against additive noise and outliers. Traditional TDA tools, like those based on the distance filtration, often struggle to distinguish small features from noise, because both have short persistences. An alternative filtration, called the Robust Density-Aware Distance (RDAD) filtration, is proposed to prolong the persistences of small holes of high-density regions. This is achieved by weighting the distance function by the density in the sense of Bell et al. The concept of distance-to-measure is incorporated to enhance stability and mitigate noise. The persistence-prolonging property and robustness of the proposed filtration are rigorously established, and numerical experiments are presented to demonstrate the proposed filtration's utility in identifying small holes.
title Detection of Small Holes by the Scale-Invariant Robust Density-Aware Distance (RDAD) Filtration
topic Statistics Theory
Computational Geometry
Algebraic Topology
Machine Learning
62R40, 55N31, 52R40, 68T09
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.07821