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Direct search methods are mainly designed for use in problems with no equality constraints. However, there are many instances where the feasible set is of measure zero in the ambient space and no mesh point lies within it. There are methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-23 David W Dreisigmeyer

Stability results for extremum seeking control in $\mathbb{R}^n$ have predominantly been restricted to local or, at best, semi-global practical stability. Extending semi-global stability results of extremum-seeking systems to unbounded sets…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Mahmoud Abdelgalil , Jorge Poveda

In this paper, we propose a variant of Riemannian stochastic recursive gradient method that can achieve second-order convergence guarantee and escape saddle points using simple perturbation. The idea is to perturb the iterates when gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-30 Andi Han , Junbin Gao

Mirror Descent (MD) is a scalable first-order method widely used in large-scale optimization, with applications in image processing, policy optimization, and neural network training. This paper generalizes MD to optimization on Riemannian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-19 Jiaxin Jiang , Lei Shi , Jiyuan Tan

We propose a general-purpose method for finding high-quality solutions to hard optimization problems, inspired by self-organizing processes often found in nature. The method, called Extremal Optimization, successively eliminates extremely…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-06 S. Boettcher , A. Percus

We examine a wide class of stochastic approximation algorithms for solving (stochastic) nonlinear problems on Riemannian manifolds. Such algorithms arise naturally in the study of Riemannian optimization, game theory and optimal transport,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Mohammad Reza Karimi , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Andreas Krause

In this paper we study nonconvex and nonsmooth multi-block optimization over Riemannian manifolds with coupled linear constraints. Such optimization problems naturally arise from machine learning, statistical learning, compressive sensing,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-09 Junyu Zhang , Shiqian Ma , Shuzhong Zhang

Constrained optimization plays a crucial role in the fields of quantum physics and quantum information science and becomes especially challenging for high-dimensional complex structure problems. One specific issue is that of quantum process…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Daniel Volya , Andrey Nikitin , Prabhat Mishra

Distributed optimization has gained substantial interest in recent years due to its wide applications in machine learning. However, most of existing algorithms are designed for Euclidean spaces, leaving composite optimization on Riemannian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Yongyang Xiong , Chen Ouyang , Keyou You , Yang Shi , Ligang Wu

In this paper, we consider optimization problems over closed embedded submanifolds of $\mathbb{R}^n$, which are defined by the constraints $c(x) = 0$. We propose a class of constraint dissolving approaches for these Riemannian optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Nachuan Xiao , Xin Liu , Kim-Chuan Toh

We consider the problem of optimization of cost functionals on the infinite-dimensional manifold of diffeomorphisms. We present a new class of optimization methods, valid for any optimization problem setup on the space of diffeomorphisms by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-25 Ganesh Sundaramoorthi , Anthony Yezzi

Riemannian submanifold optimization with momentum is computationally challenging because, to ensure that the iterates remain on the submanifold, we often need to solve difficult differential equations. Here, we simplify such difficulties…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-19 Wu Lin , Valentin Duruisseaux , Melvin Leok , Frank Nielsen , Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan , Mark Schmidt

Optimization on manifolds is a rapidly developing branch of nonlinear optimization. Its focus is on problems where the smooth geometry of the search space can be leveraged to design efficient numerical algorithms. In particular,…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Nicolas Boumal , Bamdev Mishra , P. -A. Absil , Rodolphe Sepulchre

Tensor networks provide compact and scalable representations of high-dimensional data, enabling efficient computation in fields such as quantum physics, numerical partial differential equations (PDEs), and machine learning. This paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Julia Wei , Alec Dektor , Chungen Shen , Zaiwen Wen , Chao Yang

Motivated by the problem of learning a linear regression model whose parameter is a large fixed-rank non-symmetric matrix, we consider the optimization of a smooth cost function defined on the set of fixed-rank matrices. We adopt the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-04-25 B. Mishra , G. Meyer , S. Bonnabel , R. Sepulchre

Optimization over the Stiefel manifold is a fundamental computational problem in many scientific and engineering applications. Despite considerable research effort, high-dimensional optimization problems over the Stiefel manifold remain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Andy Yat-Ming Cheung , Jinxin Wang , Man-Chung Yue , Anthony Man-Cho So

Many machine learning applications are naturally formulated as optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds. The main idea behind Riemannian optimization is to maintain the feasibility of the variables while moving along a descent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Andi Han , Pratik Jawanpuria , Bamdev Mishra

The theory of optimal design of experiments has been traditionally developed on an Euclidean space. In this paper, new theoretical results and an algorithm for finding the optimal design of an experiment located on a Riemannian manifold are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-03 Hang Li , Enrique Del Castillo

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

Adaptive stochastic gradient algorithms in the Euclidean space have attracted much attention lately. Such explorations on Riemannian manifolds, on the other hand, are relatively new, limited, and challenging. This is because of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Hiroyuki Kasai , Pratik Jawanpuria , Bamdev Mishra