Math: Algebraic topology

Machine-learning ideas tagged Algebraic topology in the Math taxonomy of the Math2NN corpus.

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Interlevel Betti Token Transformer

Represent each input graph by a short ordered sequence of topological tokens rather than a persistence diagram. For each overlapping interval on a shared filtration grid, compute the number of connected components and independent one-dimensional cycles, concatenate these counts with inexpensive graph summary statistics, and process the resulting sequence with a small Transformer. The representation should retain multiscale structural information while avoiding pairwise persistence-diagram…

Useful7/10
Difficulty6/10
Novelty6/10
Paper: TopoFormer: Topology Meets Attention for Graph Learning arXiv:2607.28259
Unverified 2026

Intersection Euler Interaction Token

Compute a compact multiscale interaction signature between colored point clouds and append it to a point-cloud or multimodal neural network as a learned interaction token. The signature captures separated, overlapping, and higher-order enclosing configurations while remaining invariant to rigid transformations.

Useful6/10
Difficulty5/10
Novelty7/10
Paper: The Intersection Euler Characteristic Profile: Euler Calculus and Stability for Topological Interaction of Ball Unions arXiv:2608.06180
Unverified 2026

Chain-Compatible Differential Pooling

Treat learned features on a mesh as differential forms and pool them against oriented chains using wedge or cap products instead of ordinary coordinate averaging. Couple forward and boundary features with the signed chain differential so that pooling commutes with differentiation, preserving local conservation and orientation information.

Useful5/10
Difficulty5/10
Novelty8/10
Paper: Differential Homology arXiv:2608.05048
Unverified 2026

Stable directed-path topology features

Construct a filtration from learned directed edge or transition weights, compute persistent path homology, and feed compact persistence features into a graph or sequence neural network. Because the paper proves stability under network-distance perturbations, these features should be less sensitive to small changes in edge scores than raw adjacency statistics, while retaining orientation-sensitive information that ordinary undirected topology loses.

Useful5/10
Difficulty7/10
Novelty6/10
Paper: Stability of persistent path homology of path complexes arXiv:2607.26226