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math.ST2026

Measuring Spatial Clustering via Metropolis-Hastings Diffusion Distance

Thomas Weighill, Chidinma Williams

The paper introduces a diffusion distance based on Metropolis‑Hastings Markov chains to quantify spatial clustering of a distribution on a graph, and develops a statistical test th…

math.AT2026

Topological optimization with birth and death cochains

Thomas Weighill, Ling Zhou

We introduce the notion of birth and death cochains as generalized versions of birth and death simplices in persistent cohomology. We show that birth and death cochains (unlike bir…

math.AT2026

Through the Grapevine: Vineyard Distance as a Measure of Topological Dissimilarity

Alvan Arulandu, Daniel Gottschalk, Thomas Payne +2

We introduce a new measure of distance between datasets, based on vineyards from topological data analysis, which we call the vineyard distance. Vineyard distance measures the exte…

cs.CV2025

Classification of Firn Data via Topological Features

Sarah Day, Jesse Dimino, Matt Jester +2

In this paper we evaluate the performance of topological features for generalizable and robust classification of firn image data, with the broader goal of understanding the advanta…

math.OC2025

Generalized Dimension Reduction Using Semi-Relaxed Gromov-Wasserstein Distance

Ranthony A. Clark, Tom Needham, Thomas Weighill

Dimension reduction techniques typically seek an embedding of a high-dimensional point cloud into a low-dimensional Euclidean space which optimally preserves the geometry of the in…

math.GT2025

Lifting coarse homotopies

Thomas Weighill

Coarse geometry, and in particular coarse homotopy theory, has proven to be a powerful tool for approaching problems in geometric group theory and higher index theory. In this pape…