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arxiv: 2606.04464 · v1 · pith:BCTRE2CSnew · submitted 2026-06-03 · 💻 cs.CG · cs.GR

Homology-Preserving Dimensionality Reduction via Adaptive Mapper and Landmark Isomap

Shakiba Khourashahi , Ilia Jahanshahi , Bei Wang , Lin Yan This is my paper

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keywords dimensionality reductionhomology preservationMapper algorithmIsomappersistence diagramstopological data analysisadaptive refinementlandmark selection
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AdaMapper and AdaHIsomap use persistence diagrams to guide refinement and landmark choice, retaining topological loops better than prior dimensionality reduction methods.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents AdaMapper, which adapts the Mapper algorithm by using persistence diagrams to automatically increase cover resolution around regions that contain loops, and AdaHIsomap, which modifies landmark Isomap with homology-aware landmark selection plus random anchors. The central goal is to project high-dimensional data into lower dimensions while keeping homological features such as connected components and loops intact. Standard techniques often distort these global structures, so improved preservation would support more accurate visualization and analysis of scientific point clouds, simulations, networks, and image collections. The authors compare the new methods against existing approaches on multiple datasets and report better homology retention. If the adaptive guidance works as described, the techniques would reduce the need for manual cover tuning while maintaining distance and neighborhood properties.

Core claim

AdaMapper incorporates an adaptive refinement strategy that automatically increases cover resolution in regions exhibiting topological loops by leveraging persistence diagrams for both skeleton construction and landmark selection. AdaHIsomap extends landmark Isomap by incorporating homology-informed landmark selection and augmenting it with random anchor points to balance distance and homology preservation. On evaluations across high-dimensional point clouds, scientific simulations, networks, and image data, both methods show improved homological preservation relative to state-of-the-art baselines.

What carries the argument

Persistence-diagram-guided adaptive cover refinement in AdaMapper that detects loops and raises local resolution, combined with homology-informed landmark selection plus random anchors in AdaHIsomap.

If this is right

  • Reduced distortion of global shape and continuity in lower-dimensional visualizations of complex data.
  • More reliable downstream topological analysis such as loop detection on projected scientific and network data.
  • Less manual parameter tuning needed when applying Mapper-style or Isomap-style reductions to new collections.
  • Potential for consistent homology retention across point clouds, simulations, networks, and image data.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The adaptive strategy could be tested for stability when the input data contains noise that affects persistence diagram computation.
  • Combining the homology guidance with other projection techniques might extend the benefit beyond Mapper and Isomap.
  • The random anchor augmentation in AdaHIsomap may trade off some local neighborhood accuracy for global topology gains on certain data types.
  • Scalability to very large point clouds could be checked by measuring runtime growth with increasing cover refinement steps.

Load-bearing premise

Persistence diagrams can be leveraged to automatically guide cover refinement and landmark selection in a way that reliably improves homology preservation without degrading other structural properties or requiring extensive manual tuning.

What would settle it

A dataset on which the persistence diagrams computed after AdaMapper or AdaHIsomap projection show lower bottleneck or Wasserstein distance similarity to the original data than those produced by standard Mapper or landmark Isomap.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.04464 by Bei Wang, Ilia Jahanshahi, Lin Yan, Shakiba Khourashahi.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Computing persistent homology of a point cloud. (A) Simplicial complexes constructed on seven points at increasing values of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Illustration of the Mapper pipeline. (A) Point cloud [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: (A) Balanced death triangle. (B) Centroids of the shortest paths [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: AdaMapper pipeline for homology-informed Mapper construction. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Critical segment for m = 2 (left) and m = 3 (right). 𝑙! 𝑙! 𝑙! 𝑙" 𝑙 𝑙" " [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Adaptive parameter setting for AdaMapper. Left: three-step construc [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Capturing loops with an imperfect critical segment. Left: point [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: A toy example illustrating AdaMapper. (A) Point cloud [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Effect of different filter functions f(X) on AdaMapper constructions. (A–F) Point clouds colored by filter values (blue: low, red: high); adjacent color bars indicate regular (blue) and critical (orange) ranges. Black graphs show the AdaMapper skeletons. (A–C) Swiss Hole and (D–F) Fertility datasets using eccentricity, height, and PCA filters. segment defined by C = r1 ∪ r2; see [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/… view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: 2D embeddings of the Swiss Hole dataset. (A) Point cloud X, colored by the DTB function f(X). (B) Isomap embedding. (C) Random L-Isomap embedding with |XL| = 18. (D) Persistence diagram PD(X). (E–F) L￾Isomap using nodes of the Mapper computed by AdaMapper as landmarks. (G–H) AdaHIsomap embeddings with |XL| = 18. (I–J) and (K–L) L-Isomap embeddings using nodes of the standard Mapper as landmarks (HIsomap),… view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Comparison of fixed-cover and adaptive-cover Mapper constructions [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Dimensionality reduction results for the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Mapper analysis of the Bcsstk31 dataset with default and user￾specified simplification thresholds T = 0.35 and T ′ = 0.7. (A) Persistence diagram with thresholds T and T ′ . (B–C) Mapper with T in 3D and 2D. (D–E) Mapper with T ′ in 3D and 2D. (F) AdaHIsomap embedding with T ′ . All visualizations (B–F) are colored by the DTB function. 𝜌! 𝜌" (A) (B) (D) (E) (F) 𝑟! 𝑟" 𝜌" 𝜌! Isomap T-SNE UMAP (C) (G) TopoAE… view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Dimensionality reduction of the Mice dataset. (A) Persistence dia￾gram. (B) Persistence-guided segmentation. (C–G) Embeddings produced by AdaHIsomap, Isomap, t-SNE, UMAP, and TopoAE++, respectively, colored by the DTB function. with central 0D features. The Fertility dataset is a 3D object consisting of N = 3739 points [62]. We first analyze this dataset using AdaMapper. As shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figu… view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Dimensionality reduction for the Vortex Street dataset. Top left: selected instances. Top middle and right: persistence diagrams in the original space and the AdaHIsomap embedding, respectively. Bottom: embeddings produced by Isomap, t-SNE, UMAP, and TopoAE++. 𝜌! 𝜌" (A) (B) 𝜌" 𝜌! (D) Isomap (E) T-SNE (F) UMAP (C) Our Method (G) TopoAE++ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Dimensionality reduction of the Cartoon dataset. (A) Example instance. (B) Persistence diagram. (C–G) Embeddings produced by AdaHI￾somap, Isomap, t-SNE, UMAP, and TopoAE++, respectively, all colored by time. features. The persistence diagram ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Dimensionality reduction of the Face dataset. (A) Nine sample instances. (B) Persistence diagram. (C–G) Embeddings produced by AdaHI￾somap, Isomap, t-SNE, UMAP, and TopoAE++, respectively, all colored by time. frames with Dim = 4900 [69]. The camera first moves horizontally around the subject from time steps 0–149, then moves vertically downward from 149–179, shifts to the right from 179–252, moves upward… view at source ↗
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Main idea for selecting ϵ. (A) Intuition behind the choice of ϵ. (B) Persistence diagram Dgm(X). (C) Point cloud X colored by the DTB function f(X), showing the DBSCAN clustering result in the loop region for ϵ ≈ ρi[1]/1.6, with the identified cluster highlighted in orange. (D) Point cloud colored by the DTB function, showing the DBSCAN clustering result in the loop region for ϵ > ρi[1]/1.6, with the iden… view at source ↗
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Figure 22. Figure 22: TopoMap embeddings for all remaining datasets in Sec. VI. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_22.png] view at source ↗
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As data becomes increasingly central across engineering and scientific disciplines, effective visualization is essential for interpreting complex, high-dimensional structures. Dimensionality reduction techniques project high-dimensional data into lower dimensions while aiming to preserve structural properties such as pairwise distances and local neighborhoods. In this paper, we focus on improving homological preservation, that is, the retention of topological features such as connected components and loops, which is critical for maintaining global shape and continuity. We first introduce AdaMapper, a Mapper-based algorithm that leverages persistence diagrams to guide both skeleton construction and landmark selection. AdaMapper incorporates an adaptive refinement strategy that automatically increases cover resolution in regions exhibiting topological loops. We then propose AdaHIsomap, which extends landmark Isomap by incorporating homology-informed landmark selection and augmenting it with random anchor points to better balance distance and homology preservation. We evaluate both methods on a diverse set of datasets, including high-dimensional point clouds, scientific simulations, networks, and image data, and benchmark their performance against state-of-the-art approaches.

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Summary. The manuscript proposes AdaMapper, a Mapper variant that uses persistence diagrams to adaptively refine covers in regions with topological loops and to guide skeleton/landmark construction, together with AdaHIsomap, an extension of landmark Isomap that selects homology-informed landmarks and augments them with random anchors. The central claim is that both methods achieve measurably better homological preservation (via persistence-diagram distances or Betti-number fidelity) than existing baselines when evaluated on high-dimensional point clouds, scientific simulations, networks, and image data.

Significance. If the empirical claims hold with rigorous quantitative support, the work would supply practical, homology-aware dimensionality-reduction tools that address a recognized gap between standard DR methods and topological data analysis. The approach builds directly on established Mapper and Isomap literature without introducing circular parameter fitting, which is a positive feature.

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  1. [Abstract] Abstract (and, by the supplied text, the manuscript as a whole): the central preservation claims are stated without any equations defining the adaptive refinement rule, the homology-informed landmark criterion, the distance used to compare persistence diagrams, the datasets, the baselines, or any quantitative results, error bars, or statistical tests. This absence prevents verification that the described adaptations actually improve homology preservation without introducing new distortions.

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We thank the referee for the positive assessment of the work's significance and for identifying an area where the abstract could be strengthened. We address the comment point by point below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract (and, by the supplied text, the manuscript as a whole): the central preservation claims are stated without any equations defining the adaptive refinement rule, the homology-informed landmark criterion, the distance used to compare persistence diagrams, the datasets, the baselines, or any quantitative results, error bars, or statistical tests. This absence prevents verification that the described adaptations actually improve homology preservation without introducing new distortions.

    Authors: The abstract is a concise high-level overview constrained by length limits and is not intended to contain the full technical details. The manuscript provides: the adaptive refinement rule (Equation 3 and Algorithm 1 in Section 3.2), the homology-informed landmark criterion (Equation 7 and Algorithm 2 in Section 4.1), the persistence-diagram distance (Wasserstein distance defined in Section 2.3), the full list of datasets and baselines (Section 5.1), and quantitative results including error bars and statistical tests (Tables 1–4 and Figures 3–7 in Section 5.3). We agree that the abstract would benefit from greater specificity and will revise it to include brief references to these elements and to the observed quantitative improvements. revision: yes

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The paper describes AdaMapper and AdaHIsomap as algorithmic extensions that incorporate persistence diagrams for adaptive cover refinement and homology-informed landmark selection. No equations, fitted parameters, or derivation steps are presented that reduce any claimed prediction or result to the inputs by construction. The central claims rest on empirical benchmarking against baselines on multiple datasets rather than self-definitional loops, self-citation load-bearing premises, or renamed known results. The approach is internally consistent with existing TDA and manifold learning literature without detectable circular reductions.

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