Cases where TDA outperforms public benchmarks?

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Precise Question

What are some specific examples where topological data analysis (TDA) outperforms other models on publicly available data?

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When new ML algorithms are developed, it seems common practice to apply them to publicly-available data and provide accuracy comparisons in order to illustrate the novelty of the algorithm in a scientific way.

As a concrete example, consider the KDD cup references in this XGBoost paper http://dmlc.cs.washington.edu/data/pdf/XGBoostArxiv.pdf

TDA seems more like a marketing thing than actually useful. Why is it absent from all the big tools? — Has QUIT--Anony-Mousse, Dec 08 '16 at 20:53
indeed...void of (public) scientific validation, it's hard to address this absence. — Quetzalcoatl, Dec 08 '16 at 21:29

Quetzalcoatl · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-19T05:35:42.167

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As of 2016, it seems difficult to concretely answer the question. Perhaps an ambitious, risk-seeking, grad student will provide more insight on TDA's performance as compared with well-known benchmarks.

edited Dec 19 '16 at 05:35

answered Dec 18 '16 at 06:22

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Cases where TDA outperforms public benchmarks?

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