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A Psychophysics Paradigm for the Collection and Analysis of Similarity Judgments
Published on: March 1, 2022
実世界のデータに対する可換代数、代数的トポロジー、およびトポロジカルスペクトル理論の解釈可能性と表現可能性
Yiming Ren1, Guo-Wei Wei1,2,3
1Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
Abstract:
While recent years have witnessed a fast growth in mathematical artificial intelligence (AI). One of the most successful mathematical AI approaches is topological data analysis via persistent homology (PH) that provides explainable AI by extracting multiscale structural features from complex datasets. Interpretability is crucial for world models, the new frontier in AI that can understand and simulate reality. This article investigates the interpretability and representability of three foundational mathematical AI methods, PH, persistent Laplacians (PL) derived from topological spectral theory, and persistent commutative algebra (PCA) rooted in Stanley-Reisner theory. We apply these methods to a set of data, including geometric shapes, synthetic complexes, fullerene structures, and biomolecular systems to examine their geometric, topological, and algebraic properties. PH captures topological invariants such as connected components, loops, and voids through persistence barcodes. PL extends PH by incorporating spectral information, quantifying topological invariants, geometric stiffness, and connectivity via harmonic and nonharmonic spectra. PCA introduces algebraic invariants such as graded Betti numbers, facet persistence, and -vectors, offering combinatorial, topological, geometric, and algebraic perspectives on data over scales. Comparative analysis reveals that while PH offers computational efficiency and intuitive visualization, PL provides enhanced geometric sensitivity, and PCA delivers rich algebraic interpretability. Together, these methods form a hierarchy of mathematical representations, enabling explainable and generalizable AI for real-world data.
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