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Cup and Cap Topological Neural Network

Oct 2026 · 0 citations
Physics

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The Cup and Cap Topological Neural Network is formulated, a topological deep learning architecture designed to learn node-based variables (or 0-cochains) by taking into account their many-body interactions (e.g. triangles) present in the data.

Abstract

Topological Deep Learning (TDL) is designed to learn features associated with higher-dimensional simplices including not only nodes but also edges, triangles and so on. However, most TDL approaches, being based on boundary operators and Hodge Laplacians, have the limitation that features and signals cannot be lifted or lowered across more than one dimension per layer. To overcome this limitation, in this work, we propose the adoption of the cup and cap products. Specifically, we formulate the Cup and Cap Topological Neural Network (CCNN), a topological deep learning architecture designed to learn node-based variables (or 0-cochains) by taking into account their many-body interactions (e.g. triangles) present in the data. We validate CCNN by assessing its performance on the TopoBench datasets, revealing its competitiveness with respect to other simplicial complex neural networks.

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