将测度映射到球面函数,实现无参数的最优传输表示。
Persistence Spheres: a Bi-continuous Linear Representation of Measures for Partial Optimal Transport
- 基于凸几何构造球面表示,通过符号对角增强编码部分传输机制。
- 对任意可积测度,球面函数差值仅依赖于测度的持久性,无需人为加权。
- 适用于函数数据、时间序列等多类任务,优于传统拓扑特征表示。
我们改进并扩展了持久性球面(persistence spheres)方法,该方法将上半平面的可积测度μ(包括持久性图作为计数测度)映射到球面上的连续函数S(μ)∈C(S²),且该映射在1-Wasserstein部分传输距离POT₁下保持稳定。据我们所知,这是首个在紧支撑目标上建立逆映射连续性的显式拓扑机器学习表示。尽管现有有界基数双利普希茨嵌入结果强大,但不以本研究中的显式摘要映射形式呈现。我们的构造源于凸几何:对正测度,定义中的ReLU积分即为提升胞体(lift zonoid)的支撑函数。在~\cite{pegoraro2025persistence}基础上,我们优化定义以更好匹配POT₁删除机制,通过符号对角增强编码部分传输。特别地,对可积μ,S(0)与S(μ)之间的均匀范数仅取决于μ的持久性,无需额外重加权,反映向对角线的最优传输成本。这在测度层面上实现了无参数表示(数值离散化除外),并兼容未来使用来自持久性图的平滑测度(如持久性强度函数~\citep{wu2024estimation})。在涉及函数数据、时间序列、图、网格和点云的聚类、回归与分类任务中,更新后的持久性球面表现具有竞争力,通常优于持久性图像、持久性景观、持久性样条及切片沃尔什核基线。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We improve and extend persistence spheres, introduced in~\cite{pegoraro2025persistence}. Persistence spheres map an integrable measure $μ$ on the upper half-plane, including persistence diagrams (PDs) as counting measures, to a function $S(μ)\in C(\mathbb{S}^2)$, and the map is stable with respect to 1-Wasserstein partial transport distance $\mathrm{POT}_1$. Moreover, to the best of our knowledge, persistence spheres are the first explicit representation used in topological machine learning for which continuity of the inverse on the image is established at every compactly supported target. Recent bounded-cardinality bi-Lipschitz embedding results in partial transport spaces, despite being powerful, are not given by the kind of explicit summary map considered here. Our construction is rooted in convex geometry: for positive measures, the defining ReLU integral is the support function of the lift zonoid. Building on~\cite{pegoraro2025persistence}, we refine the definition to better match the $\mathrm{POT}_1$ deletion mechanism, encoding partial transport via a signed diagonal augmentation. In particular, for integrable $μ$, the uniform norm between $S(0)$ and $S(μ)$ depends only on the persistence of $μ$, without any need of ad-hoc re-weightings, reflecting optimal transport to the diagonal at persistence cost. This yields a parameter-free representation at the level of measures (up to numerical discretization), while accommodating future extensions where $μ$ is a smoothed measure derived from PDs (e.g., persistence intensity functions~\citep{wu2024estimation}). Across clustering, regression, and classification tasks involving functional data, time series, graphs, meshes, and point clouds, the updated persistence spheres are competitive and often improve upon persistence images, persistence landscapes, persistence splines, and sliced Wasserstein kernel baselines.
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