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The Walk-Length Filtration for Persistent Homology on Weighted Directed Graphs

David E. Mu\~noz , Elizabeth Munch , Firas A. Khasawneh This is my paper

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A walk-length filtration for weighted directed graphs yields persistent homology that is stable under a generalized L1 network distance.

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This paper introduces the walk-length filtration to turn weighted directed graphs into input for persistent homology. The filtration value for any collection of vertices is the shortest walk length that visits all of them, so the method directly encodes how information travels along directed edges. The central result shows that the resulting persistence diagrams are stable when graphs are compared with a generalized L1-style distance, although they are not stable under the usual L infinity network distance. The authors supply an algorithm to compute the filtration and test its output on cycle graphs and synthetic hippocampal networks, contrasting the features it extracts with those from the Dowker filtration.

Core claim

We define the walk-length filtration on a weighted directed graph by setting the filtration value of a simplex to the length of the shortest walk that visits every vertex in that simplex. We prove that persistence computed from this filtration is stable with respect to a generalized L1 network distance on the input graphs. We also give an explicit algorithm for constructing the filtration and computing its persistence, and we examine the diagrams produced on cycle networks and on synthetic directed graphs that model hippocampal connectivity.

What carries the argument

The walk-length filtration, which assigns to each set of vertices the minimal length of a directed walk that visits every vertex in the set.

If this is right

  • Persistence diagrams from this filtration can be compared reliably across nearby directed graphs when distance is measured in the generalized L1 sense.
  • An explicit algorithm exists for building the filtration and extracting its persistent homology.
  • The diagrams differ from those of the Dowker filtration on both cycle networks and synthetic hippocampal networks.
  • The stability property supports applications in which small directed-edge weight changes should produce only small changes in the topological summary.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The method may be applied to any directed network where short directed paths carry meaningful information, such as traffic or citation graphs.
  • One could check whether persistence from the walk-length filtration detects cycles or clusters that other directed filtrations miss on real biological or social data.
  • The stability guarantee suggests the diagrams could serve as input features for downstream machine-learning tasks on directed graphs.

Load-bearing premise

That assigning filtration values via shortest covering walks correctly encodes the topological features the authors intend to study in the directed graph.

What would settle it

Two directed graphs that differ by a small amount in the generalized L1 distance but produce substantially different persistence diagrams under the walk-length filtration would disprove the stability result.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2506.22263 by David E. Mu\~noz, Elizabeth Munch, Firas A. Khasawneh.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: An example of a shortest-distance digraph (right) obtained from a strongly connected digraph (left). Proof. We must show that, for all δ ∈ R, the two corresponding simplicial complexes associated to δ are the same, that is, WD δ = WX δ . From the definition, for any directed edge (a, b) ∈ V × V there is a nontrivial shortest walk γ = (v0, . . . , vm) in X , such that v0 = a, vm = b, and w(γ) = ωD(a, b). By… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: A case where walk-length construction is not stable under an ℓ∞-distance. (Theorem 3.10), then a second bound free of this factor but restricted to comparison between networks with the same size (Theorem 3.15). These two versions use slightly different definitions of network distance, which we give next. We begin with the summation version of distortion and the corresponding network distance analogue, as s… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Counterexample to triangle inequality for d 1 N . not equivalent in the case of d 1 N . We first give an example where the relation version and map version of the distances are different, and then we show the general result. Definition 3.7. For X , Y ∈ N and any two maps φ : X → Y and ψ : Y :→ X on their sets of vertices, the ℓ1-distortion and ℓ1-codistortion terms are defined respectively as dis1 (φ) := X… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Networks X (left) and Y (right) showing the inequality of Proposition 3.9 can be strict. Proof. As usual, denote X = (X, ωX) and Y = (Y, ωY ). Let η = 2M d1,map N (X, Y ) and φ, ψ be a pair of maps that achieve the minimum in Equation 3.8, so that η = M · max  dis1 (φ), dis1 (ψ), codis1 (φ, ψ), codis1 (ψ, φ) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Top left shows the cycle graph D6; bottom left shows the modified graph De6 where the weight of (6, 1) is equal to 4. On the second column we show the shortest distance matrices, illustrating the weights in the networks G6 and Ge6, respectively. Third and fourth columns show the corresponding persistence diagrams. We conclude that all 1-dimensional homology classes in walk-length persistence are generated … view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Sample arenas with two (top row) and four (bottom row) holes. Left column shows walks along the grid; shades generated with most visited points. Middle column shows the centers of place fields. Right column shows the corresponding spike pattern on place cells; the x-axis represents time steps and the y-axis represents the nk place cells. 4.2. Hippocampal networks. In order to see the accuracy and efficienc… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Multidimensional scaling plots from bottleneck distances using Dowker (top row) and walk-length (bottom row) persistence via the preprocessed weights ω min ,1 k (left column) and ω purge k (right column). ωk ω min,1 k ω min,purge k ω purge k Rips (min-sym) 37% 56% 63% 73% Rips (max-sym) 57% 51% 51% 59% Dowker 50% 71% 73%† 82%† Dowker (Shortest) 49% 71% 71% 82% Walk-Length 7% 80% 76% 86% [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:f… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Confusion matrices from classification results using Dowker (left) and Walk-Length (right) persistence on the networks (Xk, ω purge k ). An important note is that the Dowker filtration with ω purge k does not converge to a complete simpli￾cial complex, since the networks (Xk, ω purge k ) are not complete, and thus some 1-dimensional persistence points will have infinite persistence. In such cases, the bott… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Dendrograms from bottleneck distance between persistence diagrams ob￾tained from directed networks. Left: Dowker (asymmetric) persistence; colors repre￾sent clustering at threshold 0.085. Right: Rips persistence after max-symmetrization. walk-length persistence in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Dendrogram from bottleneck distance between walk-length persistence diagrams obtained from directed networks with weight ω purge k . Labels on vertical axis indicate number of holes on each trial, where arenas with no holes do not have a label. Colors represent clustering at threshold 0.8 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_10.png] view at source ↗
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Directed graphs arise in many applications where computing persistent homology helps to encode the shape and structure of the input information. However, there are only a few ways to turn the directed graph information into an undirected simplicial complex filtration required by the standard persistent homology framework. In this paper, we present a new filtration constructed from a directed graph, called the walk-length filtration. This filtration mirrors the behavior of small walks visiting certain collections of vertices in the directed graph. We show that, while the persistence is not stable under the usual $L_\infty$-style network distance, a generalized $L_1$-style distance is, indeed, stable. We further provide an algorithm for its computation, and investigate the behavior of this filtration in examples, including cycle networks and synthetic hippocampal networks with a focus on comparison to the often used Dowker filtration.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript introduces the walk-length filtration for persistent homology on weighted directed graphs. For a simplex consisting of a collection of vertices, the filtration value is the length of the shortest directed walk visiting all those vertices. The central claims are that the induced persistence is not stable under the standard L∞ network distance but is stable under a generalized L1-style distance, that an efficient algorithm exists for its computation, and that the filtration behaves meaningfully on examples such as cycle networks and synthetic hippocampal networks when compared to the Dowker filtration.

Significance. If the stability result holds, the work supplies a new, walk-based filtration that respects directionality in graphs and comes with a stability guarantee under a natural distance; this is a concrete addition to the limited set of filtrations available for directed graphs. The algorithmic contribution and the explicit comparison to the Dowker filtration on both synthetic and application-inspired examples strengthen the practical utility of the approach.

major comments (2)
  1. [§2.2] §2.2 (filtration definition): the walk-length function f(σ) = min length of a directed walk visiting every vertex in σ automatically satisfies the filtration axiom f(τ) ≤ f(σ) whenever τ is a face of σ, because any walk realizing f(σ) already visits all vertices of τ and therefore supplies an upper bound on f(τ). The reviewer concern that restricting walks could increase length for faces therefore does not apply; the construction is a valid filtration for arbitrary positive edge weights and asymmetric directions.
  2. [Theorem 4.1] Theorem 4.1 (stability under generalized L1 distance): the proof sketch relies on the triangle inequality for the chosen L1-style distance; a short explicit counter-example showing instability under the usual L∞ distance (as claimed in the abstract) would make the distinction sharper and would help readers assess the scope of the stability result.
minor comments (3)
  1. [Figure 3] Figure 3 (cycle-network example): the persistence diagrams are plotted without axis labels indicating the filtration parameter range; adding these would improve readability.
  2. [Algorithm 1] Algorithm 1 (pseudocode): the line that initializes the priority queue does not specify the tie-breaking rule when two walks have identical length; a one-sentence clarification would remove ambiguity.
  3. The reference list omits the original Dowker paper (Dowker 1952); adding it would place the comparison in proper historical context.

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We thank the referee for their careful reading, positive assessment, and constructive suggestions. We respond point by point to the major comments below.

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  1. Referee: [§2.2] §2.2 (filtration definition): the walk-length function f(σ) = min length of a directed walk visiting every vertex in σ automatically satisfies the filtration axiom f(τ) ≤ f(σ) whenever τ is a face of σ, because any walk realizing f(σ) already visits all vertices of τ and therefore supplies an upper bound on f(τ). The reviewer concern that restricting walks could increase length for faces therefore does not apply; the construction is a valid filtration for arbitrary positive edge weights and asymmetric directions.

    Authors: We appreciate the referee's clarification. The definition of the walk-length function indeed ensures monotonicity: any directed walk that visits all vertices of σ necessarily visits all vertices of a face τ, so the minimal length for σ is an upper bound for the minimal length for τ. We will add an explicit remark in the revised §2.2 confirming that the construction yields a valid filtration for arbitrary positive weights and directions. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Theorem 4.1] Theorem 4.1 (stability under generalized L1 distance): the proof sketch relies on the triangle inequality for the chosen L1-style distance; a short explicit counter-example showing instability under the usual L∞ distance (as claimed in the abstract) would make the distinction sharper and would help readers assess the scope of the stability result.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit counter-example would improve clarity. In the revised manuscript we will insert a short, concrete counter-example (a small directed graph with two different weight assignments) demonstrating that the induced persistence diagrams are not stable under the standard L∞ network distance, while the stability result under the generalized L1-style distance remains as stated in Theorem 4.1. revision: yes

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No circularity: walk-length filtration and L1 stability derived independently from graph structure

full rationale

The paper defines the walk-length filtration directly from shortest directed walks visiting vertex collections in the input graph, then proves stability under a separately defined generalized L1-style network distance. This stability result does not reduce to a tautology or self-definition; it relies on independent properties of walks and the external distance. No fitted parameters are relabeled as predictions, no load-bearing self-citations justify uniqueness, and the construction is compared to the external Dowker filtration rather than being justified only by prior author work. The derivation chain remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

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