Theory and Persistent Homology (Kevin P. Knudson): http://www.math.fsu.edu/~hironaka/FSUUF/knudson.pdf Topological Persistence and Simplification (Herbert Edelsbrunner, David Letscher, Afra Zomorodian): http://math.uchicago.edu/~shmuel/AAT-readings/Data%20Analysis%20/PersTop.pdf Extracting and Composing Robust Features with Denoising Autoencoders (Pascal Vincent, Hugo Larochelle, Yoshua Bengio, Pierre-Antoine Manzagol) http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~vincentp/Publications/ denoising_autoencoders_tr1316.pdf