Computer Science – Computational Geometry
Scientific paper
2012-03-30
Computer Science
Computational Geometry
Scientific paper
The Vietoris-Rips filtration is a versatile tool in topological data analysis. It is a sequence of simplicial complexes built on a metric space to add topological structure to an otherwise disconnected set of points. It is widely used because it encodes useful information about the topology of the underlying metric space. This information is often extracted from its so-called persistence diagram. Unfortunately, this filtration is often too large to construct in full. We show how to construct an O(n)-size filtered simplicial complex on an $n$-point metric space such that its persistence diagram is a good approximation to that of the Vietoris-Rips filtration. This new filtration can be constructed in $O(n\log n)$ time. The constant factors in both the size and the running time depend only on the doubling dimension of the metric space and the desired tightness of the approximation. For the first time, this makes it computationally tractable to approximate the persistence diagram of the Vietoris-Rips filtration across all scales for large data sets. We describe two different sparse filtrations. The first is a zigzag filtration that removes points as the scale increases. The second is a (non-zigzag) filtration that yields the same persistence diagram. Both methods are based on a hierarchical net-tree and yield the same guarantees.
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