In this post we want to focus on the use of topological methods for machine learning. Both the extremely fast online recognition and the processing with unsupervised learning methods in the field of machine learning are based almost exclusively on the optimization of the parameters of a mapping between input and target data. In Literature on Topological Data Analysis we have given an extensive overview of the broad spectrum of literature about TDA. Our focus is to elicit how TDA is used in this very general setting. Reviewing the categorized literature, we find that it manifests itself in three ways in the landscape of machine learning.
Exploratory data analysis using the Mapper algorithm provides a dimension reduction technique based on theories of TDA and offers a low-dimensional, visually interpretable nerve of a si