Differentiability and Optimization of Multiparameter Persistent Homology

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Auteurs principaux: Scoccola, Luis, Setlur, Siddharth, Loiseaux, David, Carrière, Mathieu, Oudot, Steve
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author Scoccola, Luis
Setlur, Siddharth
Loiseaux, David
Carrière, Mathieu
Oudot, Steve
author_facet Scoccola, Luis
Setlur, Siddharth
Loiseaux, David
Carrière, Mathieu
Oudot, Steve
contents Real-valued functions on geometric data -- such as node attributes on a graph -- can be optimized using descriptors from persistent homology, allowing the user to incorporate topological terms in the loss function. When optimizing a single real-valued function (the one-parameter setting), there is a canonical choice of descriptor for persistent homology: the barcode. The operation mapping a real-valued function to its barcode is differentiable almost everywhere, and the convergence of gradient descent for losses using barcodes is relatively well understood. When optimizing a vector-valued function (the multiparameter setting), there is no unique choice of descriptor for multiparameter persistent homology, and many distinct descriptors have been proposed. This calls for the development of a general framework for differentiability and optimization that applies to a wide range of multiparameter homological descriptors. In this article, we develop such a framework and show that it encompasses well-known descriptors of different flavors, such as signed barcodes and the multiparameter persistence landscape. We complement the theory with numerical experiments supporting the idea that optimizing multiparameter homological descriptors can lead to improved performances compared to optimizing one-parameter descriptors, even when using the simplest and most efficiently computable multiparameter descriptors.
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spellingShingle Differentiability and Optimization of Multiparameter Persistent Homology
Scoccola, Luis
Setlur, Siddharth
Loiseaux, David
Carrière, Mathieu
Oudot, Steve
Computational Geometry
Algebraic Topology
Optimization and Control
Real-valued functions on geometric data -- such as node attributes on a graph -- can be optimized using descriptors from persistent homology, allowing the user to incorporate topological terms in the loss function. When optimizing a single real-valued function (the one-parameter setting), there is a canonical choice of descriptor for persistent homology: the barcode. The operation mapping a real-valued function to its barcode is differentiable almost everywhere, and the convergence of gradient descent for losses using barcodes is relatively well understood. When optimizing a vector-valued function (the multiparameter setting), there is no unique choice of descriptor for multiparameter persistent homology, and many distinct descriptors have been proposed. This calls for the development of a general framework for differentiability and optimization that applies to a wide range of multiparameter homological descriptors. In this article, we develop such a framework and show that it encompasses well-known descriptors of different flavors, such as signed barcodes and the multiparameter persistence landscape. We complement the theory with numerical experiments supporting the idea that optimizing multiparameter homological descriptors can lead to improved performances compared to optimizing one-parameter descriptors, even when using the simplest and most efficiently computable multiparameter descriptors.
title Differentiability and Optimization of Multiparameter Persistent Homology
topic Computational Geometry
Algebraic Topology
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07224