Abstract
Persistent homology (PH) is a rigorous mathematical theory that provides a robust descriptor of data
in the form of persistence diagrams (PDs). PDs
exhibit, however, complex structure and are diffi-
cult to integrate in today’s machine learning work-
flows. This paper introduces persistence bag-ofwords: a novel and stable vectorized representation of PDs that enables the seamless integration
with machine learning. Comprehensive experiments show that the new representation achieves
state-of-the-art performance and beyond in much
less time than alternative approaches