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giotto-ph: A Python Library for High-Performance Computation of Persistent Homology of Vietoris-Rips Filtrations

12 Jul 2021arXiv:2107.05412links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

Julián Burella Pérez, Sydney Hauke, Umberto Lupo, Matteo Caorsi, Alberto Dassatti

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We introduce giotto-ph, a high-performance, open-source software package for the computation of Vietoris-Rips barcodes. giotto-ph is based on Morozov and Nigmetov's lockfree (multicore) implementation of Ulrich Bauer's Ripser package. It also contains a re-working of the GUDHI library's implementation of Boissonnat and Pritam's Edge Collapser, which can be used as a pre-processing step to dramatically reduce overall run-times in certain scenarios. Our contribution is twofold: on the one hand, we integrate existing state-of-the-art ideas coherently in a single library and provide Python bindings to the C++ code. On the other hand, we increase parallelization opportunities and improve overall performance by adopting more efficient data structures. Our persistent homology backend establishes a new state of the art, surpassing even GPU-accelerated implementations such as Ripser++ when using as few as 5-10 CPU cores. Furthermore, our implementation of Edge Collapser has fewer software dependencies and improved run-times relative to GUDHI's original implementation.

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