Approximate Nearest Neighbors in the Space of Persistence Diagrams
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Persistence diagrams are important tools in the field of topological data analysis that describe the presence and magnitude of features in a filtered topological space. However, current approaches for comparing a persistence diagram to a set of other persistence diagrams is linear in the number of diagrams or do not offer performance guarantees. In this paper, we apply concepts from locality-sensitive hashing to support approximate nearest neighbor search in the space of persistence diagrams. Given a set Γ of n (M,m)-bounded persistence diagrams, each with at most m points, we snap-round the points of each diagram to points on a cubical lattice and produce a key for each possible snap-rounding. Specifically, we fix a grid over each diagram at several resolutions and consider the snap-roundings of each diagram to the four nearest lattice points. Then, we propose a data structure with τ levels that stores all snap-roundings of each persistence diagram in Γ at each resolution. This data structure has size O(n5^mτ) to account for varying lattice resolutions as well as snap-roundings and the deletion of points with low persistence. To search for a persistence diagram, we compute a key for a query diagram by snapping each point to a lattice and deleting points of low persistence. Furthermore, as the lattice parameter decreases, searching our data structure yields a six-approximation of the nearest diagram in Γ in O((m+m^2)τ) time and a constant factor approximation of the kth nearest diagram in O((m+m^2+k)τ) time.
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