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most citedSheaves, Cosheaves and Applications

110 citations · 163 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.LG2026

Stratifying Reinforcement Learning with Signal Temporal Logic

Justin Curry, Alberto Speranzon

In this paper, we develop a stratification-based semantics for Signal Temporal Logic (STL) in which each atomic predicate is interpreted as a membership test in a stratified space.…

math.CT2026

Categorical Perspectives on Chemical Reaction Networks

Justin Curry, Mauricio Montes

We show that the Schur-complement reduction of a chemical reaction network (CRN) from Hirono et al. is the categorical complement of the stoichiometric arrow in the arrow category…

math.AT2026

Counting Barcodes with the same Betti Curve

Henry Ashley, Håvard Bakke Bjerkevik, Justin Curry +2

This paper considers an important inverse problem in topological data analysis (TDA): How many different barcodes produce the same Betti curve? Equivalently, given a function $β\co…

math.AT2025

Kan Approximations of the Persistent Homology Transform

Shreya Arya, Justin Curry

The persistent homology transform (PHT) of a subset is a map from the unit sphere to the space of persist…

math.AT2025

Exploring the Stratified Space Structure of an RL Game with the Volume Growth Transform

Justin Curry, Brennan Lagasse, Ngoc B. Lam +3

In this work, we explore the structure of the embedding space of a transformer model trained for playing a particular reinforcement learning (RL) game. Specifically, we investigate…

cs.LG2024★ 6 cited

Position: Topological Deep Learning is the New Frontier for Relational Learning

Theodore Papamarkou, Tolga Birdal, Michael Bronstein +19

Topological deep learning (TDL) is a rapidly evolving field that uses topological features to understand and design deep learning models. This paper posits that TDL is the new fron…

math.MG2023

Stability and Approximations for Decorated Reeb Spaces

Justin Curry, Washington Mio, Tom Needham +2

Given a map from a topological space to a metric space , a decorated Reeb space consists of the Reeb space, together with an attribution function whose values re…

math.AT2023★ 1 cited

Topologically Attributed Graphs for Shape Discrimination

Justin Curry, Washington Mio, Tom Needham +2

In this paper we introduce a novel family of attributed graphs for the purpose of shape discrimination. Our graphs typically arise from variations on the Mapper graph construction,…

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.AT2022★ 1 cited

A Sheaf-Theoretic Construction of Shape Space

Shreya Arya, Justin Curry, Sayan Mukherjee

We present a sheaf-theoretic construction of shape space -- the space of all shapes. We do this by describing a homotopy sheaf on the poset category of constructible sets, where ea…

math.AT2022

A Lattice-Theoretic Perspective on the Persistence Map

Brendan Mallery, Adélie Garin, Justin Curry

We provide a naturally isomorphic description of the persistence map from merge trees to barcodes in terms of a monotone map from the partition lattice to the subset lattice. Our d…

cs.CG2021

The Universal -Metric on Merge Trees

Robert Cardona, Justin Curry, Tung Lam +1

Adapting a definition given by Bjerkevik and Lesnick for multiparameter persistence modules, we introduce an -type extension of the interleaving distance on merge trees. We…

math.AT2021★ 1 cited

From Trees to Barcodes and Back Again II: Combinatorial and Probabilistic Aspects of a Topological Inverse Problem

Justin Curry, Jordan DeSha, Adélie Garin +3

In this paper we consider two aspects of the inverse problem of how to construct merge trees realizing a given barcode. Much of our investigation exploits a recently discovered con…

math.AT2021

Decorated Merge Trees for Persistent Topology

Justin Curry, Haibin Hang, Washington Mio +2

This paper introduces decorated merge trees (DMTs) as a novel invariant for persistent spaces. DMTs combine both and information into a single data structure that disti…

math.CT2020★ 5 cited

A Relative Theory of Interleavings

Magnus Bakke Botnan, Justin Curry, Elizabeth Munch

The interleaving distance, although originally developed for persistent homology, has been generalized to measure the distance between functors modeled on many posets or even small…

math.AT2019★ 12 cited

Moduli Spaces of Morse Functions for Persistence

Michael J. Catanzaro, Justin Curry, Brittany Terese Fasy +5

We consider different notions of equivalence for Morse functions on the sphere in the context of persistent homology, and introduce new invariants to study these equivalence classe…

math.CT2019★ 8 cited

Functors on Posets Left Kan Extend to Cosheaves: an Erratum

Justin Curry

In this note we give a self-contained proof of a fundamental statement in the study of cosheaves over a poset. Specifically, if a functor has domain a poset and co-domain a co-comp…

math.AT2018★ 1 cited

When Left and Right Turns Inside Out: A Geometric and Categorical Introduction to an Inverse Problem in Persistence

Justin Curry

In this paper we introduce the problem of counting embedded spheres in R^3 whose projection to the z-axis yields a level set barcode of a particular type. Two embedded spheres are…

math.AT2018★ 5 cited

How Many Directions Determine a Shape and other Sufficiency Results for Two Topological Transforms

Justin Curry, Sayan Mukherjee, Katharine Turner

In this paper we consider two topological transforms that are popular in applied topology: the Persistent Homology Transform (PHT) and the Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT). Bot…

math.AT2017★ 3 cited

The Fiber of the Persistence Map for Functions on the Interval

Justin Curry

In this paper we study functions on the interval that have the same persistent homology. By introducing an equivalence relation modeled after topological conjugacy, which we call g…

math.AT2016

Dualities between Cellular Sheaves and Cosheaves

Justin Curry

This paper affirms a conjecture of MacPherson: that the derived category of cellular sheaves is equivalent to the derived category of cellular cosheaves. We give a self-contained t…

math.AT2016★ 8 cited

Classification of Constructible Cosheaves

Justin Curry, Amit Patel

In this paper we prove an equivalence theorem originally observed by Robert MacPherson. On one side of the equivalence is the category of cosheaves that are constructible with resp…

math.AT2014★ 2 cited

Topological Data Analysis and Cosheaves

Justin Curry

This paper contains an expository account of persistent homology and its usefulness for topological data analysis. An alternative foundation for level-set persistence is presented…

math.AT2013

Discrete Morse theory for computing cellular sheaf cohomology

Justin Curry, Robert Ghrist, Vidit Nanda

Sheaves and sheaf cohomology are powerful tools in computational topology, greatly generalizing persistent homology. We develop an algorithm for simplifying the computation of cell…