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Low-rank optimization problems with sparse simplex constraints involve variables that must satisfy nonnegativity, sparsity, and sum-to-1 conditions, making their optimization particularly challenging due to the interplay between low-rank…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Flavia Esposito , Andersen Ang

In this paper we develop new Newton and conjugate gradient algorithms on the Grassmann and Stiefel manifolds. These manifolds represent the constraints that arise in such areas as the symmetric eigenvalue problem, nonlinear eigenvalue…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 Alan Edelman , T. A. Arias , Steven T. Smith

We further research on the accelerated optimization phenomenon on Riemannian manifolds by introducing accelerated global first-order methods for the optimization of $L$-smooth and geodesically convex (g-convex) or $\mu$-strongly g-convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-16 David Martínez-Rubio

This paper presents new Riemannian conjugate gradient methods and global convergence analyses under the strong Wolfe conditions. The main idea of the new methods is to combine the good global convergence properties of the Dai-Yuan method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Hiroyuki Sakai , Hideaki Iiduka

Consensus algorithms are popular distributed algorithms for computing aggregate quantities, such as averages, in ad-hoc wireless networks. However, existing algorithms mostly address the case where the measurements lie in a Euclidean space.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-02-02 Roberto Tron , Bijan Afsari , René Vidal

We propose an inexact optimization algorithm on Riemannian manifolds, motivated by quadratic discrimination tasks in high-dimensional, low-sample-size (HDLSS) imaging settings. In such applications, gradient evaluations are often biased due…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Uday Talwar , Meredith K. Kupinski , Afrooz Jalilzadeh

This paper first presents a detailed implementation of Newton's method on the indefinite Stiefel manifold. To this end, an intensive analysis of the second-order geometry of the manifold is performed. Specifically, given the two types of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Hiroyuki Sato

By restricting the iterate on a nonlinear manifold, the recently proposed Riemannian optimization methods prove to be both efficient and effective in low rank tensor completion problems. However, existing methods fail to exploit the easily…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-24 Tengfei Zhou , Hui Qian , Zebang Shen , Congfu Xu

This paper studies large-scale optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds whose objective function is a finite sum of negative log-probability losses. Such problems arise in various machine learning and signal processing applications. By…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Jiang Hu , Ruicheng Ao , Anthony Man-Cho So , Minghan Yang , Zaiwen Wen

Since optimization on Riemannian manifolds relies on the chosen metric, it is appealing to know that how the performance of a Riemannian optimization method varies with different metrics and how to exquisitely construct a metric such that a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Bin Gao , Renfeng Peng , Ya-xiang Yuan

Landing methods have recently emerged in Riemannian matrix optimization as efficient schemes for handling nonlinear equality constraints without resorting to costly retractions. These methods decompose the search direction into tangent and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Florentin Goyens , Florian Feppon

In this work, we present a novel approach for solving stochastic shape optimization problems. Our method is the extension of the classical stochastic gradient method to infinite-dimensional shape manifolds. We prove convergence of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Caroline Geiersbach , Estefania Loayza-Romero , Kathrin Welker

The convergence of inexact Newton methods is studied for solving generalized equations on Riemannian manifolds by using the metric regularity property, which is also explored. Under appropriate conditions and without any additional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Mauricio S. Louzeiro , Gilson N. Silva , Jinyun Yuan , Daoping Zhang

Optimization of quadratic functions and the quotient of those are relevant in subspace and iterative optimization methods. In this paper, the calculation of the generalized operator norm and extremal generalized Rayleigh quotient is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Jonas Bresch

In this work, we analyze two of the most fundamental algorithms in geodesically convex optimization: Riemannian gradient descent and (possibly inexact) Riemannian proximal point. We quantify their rates of convergence and produce different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-18 David Martínez-Rubio , Christophe Roux , Sebastian Pokutta

We propose an extremely versatile approach to address a large family of matrix nearness problems, possibly with additional linear constraints. Our method is based on splitting a matrix nearness problem into two nested optimization problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Miryam Gnazzo , Vanni Noferini , Lauri Nyman , Federico Poloni

Optimization problems in disciplines such as machine learning are commonly solved with iterative methods. Gradient descent algorithms find local minima by moving along the direction of steepest descent while Newton's method takes into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-20 Patrick Rebentrost , Maria Schuld , Leonard Wossnig , Francesco Petruccione , Seth Lloyd

A general class of Newton algorithms on Gra{\ss}mann and Lagrange-Gra{\ss}mann manifolds is introduced, that depends on an arbitrary pair of local coordinates. Local quadratic convergence of the algorithm is shown under a suitable condition…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-11-10 Uwe Helmke , Knut Hüper , Jochen Trumpf

In the present paper, in order to fnd a singularity of a vector field defined on Riemannian manifolds, we present a new globalization strategy of Newton method and establish its global convergence with superlinear rate. In particular, this…

Understanding how systems built out of modular components can be jointly optimized is an important problem in biology, engineering, and machine learning. The backpropagation algorithm is one such solution and has been instrumental in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Christian Pehle , Jean-Jacques Slotine