papers

Publications (52)

math.AT2023

Convergence of Leray Cosheaves for Decorated Mapper Graphs

Justin Curry, Washington Mio, Tom Needham +2

We introduce decorated mapper graphs as a generalization of mapper graphs capable of capturing more topological information of a data set. A decorated mapper graph can be viewed as…

math.OC2025

Path constrained unbalanced optimal transport

Martin Bauer, Nicolas Charon, Tom Needham +1

Dynamical formulations of optimal transport (OT) frame the task of comparing distributions as a variational problem which searches for a path between distributions minimizing a kin…

math.FA2025

Optimization and the Topology of Spaces of Parseval Frames

Anthony Caine, Tom Needham, Clayton Shonkwiler

A Parseval frame is a spanning set for a Hilbert space which satisfies the Parseval identity: a vector can be expressed as a linear combination of the frame whose coefficients are…

cs.LG2021

Quantized Gromov-Wasserstein

Samir Chowdhury, David Miller, Tom Needham

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) framework adapts ideas from optimal transport to allow for the comparison of probability distributions defined on different metric spaces. Scalable comp…

math.MG2026

Metric Geometry of Lebesgue, Wasserstein, and Gromov-Wasserstein Spaces: Submetries, Curvature, and Geodesics

Martin Bauer, Facundo Mémoli, Tom Needham +1

A metric space gives rise to three natural classes of infinite-dimensional metric spaces associated to : -Wasserstein spaces of probability measures on , nonlinear Leb…

cs.CG2021

Geometric averages of partitioned datasets

Tom Needham, Thomas Weighill

We introduce a method for jointly registering ensembles of partitioned datasets in a way which is both geometrically coherent and partition-aware. Once such a registration has been…