Neural Persistence Dynamics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15732v2
• Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 15:30:50 GMT
• Title: Neural Persistence Dynamics
• Authors: Sebastian Zeng, Florian Graf, Martin Uray, Stefan Huber, Roland Kwitt,
• Abstract summary: We consider the problem of learning the dynamics in the topology of time-evolving point clouds. Our proposed model - $textitNeural Persistence Dynamics$ - substantially outperforms the state-of-the-art across a diverse set of parameter regression tasks.
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• Abstract: We consider the problem of learning the dynamics in the topology of time-evolving point clouds, the prevalent spatiotemporal model for systems exhibiting collective behavior, such as swarms of insects and birds or particles in physics. In such systems, patterns emerge from (local) interactions among self-propelled entities. While several well-understood governing equations for motion and interaction exist, they are notoriously difficult to fit to data, as most prior work requires knowledge about individual motion trajectories, i.e., a requirement that is challenging to satisfy with an increasing number of entities. To evade such confounding factors, we investigate collective behavior from a $\textit{topological perspective}$, but instead of summarizing entire observation sequences (as done previously), we propose learning a latent dynamical model from topological features $\textit{per time point}$. The latter is then used to formulate a downstream regression task to predict the parametrization of some a priori specified governing equation. We implement this idea based on a latent ODE learned from vectorized (static) persistence diagrams and show that a combination of recent stability results for persistent homology justifies this modeling choice. Various (ablation) experiments not only demonstrate the relevance of each model component but provide compelling empirical evidence that our proposed model - $\textit{Neural Persistence Dynamics}$ - substantially outperforms the state-of-the-art across a diverse set of parameter regression tasks.

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