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We propose a conjugate gradient type optimization technique for the computation of the Karcher mean on the set of complex linear subspaces of fixed dimension, modeled by the so-called Grassmannian. The identification of the Grassmannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-09-17 Knut Hüper , Martin Kleinsteuber , Hao Shen

We consider the Grassman manifold $G(E)$ as the subset of all orthogonal projections of a given Euclidean space $E$ and obtain some explicit formulas concerning the differential geometry of $G(E)$ as a submanifold of $L(E,E)$ endowed with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Armando Machado , Isabel Salavessa

Any procedure applied to data, and any quantity derived from data, is required to respect the nature and symmetries of the data. This axiom applies to refinement procedures and multiresolution transforms as well as to more basic operations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-18 Johannes Wallner

On the Grassmann manifold G (m, n) of m-dimensional subspaces of an n-dimensional projective space P^n, a certain supplementary construction called the normalization is considered. By means of this normalization, one can construct the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Maks A. Akivis , Vladislav V. Goldberg

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 recover the Riemannian gradient of a given function defined on interior points of a Riemannian submanifold in the Euclidean space based on a sample of function evaluations at points in the submanifold. This approach is based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Alvaro Almeida Gomez , Antônio J. Silva Neto , Jorge P. Zubelli

Several first order stochastic optimization methods commonly used in the Euclidean domain such as stochastic gradient descent (SGD), accelerated gradient descent or variance reduced methods have already been adapted to certain Riemannian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Gary Bécigneul , Octavian-Eugen Ganea

We reframe linear dimensionality reduction as a problem of Bayesian inference on matrix manifolds. This natural paradigm extends the Bayesian framework to dimensionality reduction tasks in higher dimensions with simpler models at greater…

Computation · Statistics 2016-06-15 Andrew Holbrook , Alexander Vandenberg-Rodes , Babak Shahbaba

This paper shows that the Grassmann Manifolds $G_{\bf F}(n,N)$ can all be imbedded in an Euclidean space $M_{\bf F}(N)$ naturally and the imbedding can be realized by the eigenfunctions of Laplacian $\triangle$ on $G_{\bf F}(n,N)$. They are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jianwei Zhou

The aim of this paper is to investigate the differential geometry of immersed surfaces in three-dimensional normed spaces from the viewpoint of affine differential geometry. We endow the surface with a useful Riemannian metric which is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-06 Vitor Balestro , Horst Martini , Ralph Teixeira

Conjugate gradient (CG) methods are widely acknowledged as efficient for minimizing continuously differentiable functions in Euclidean spaces. In recent years, various CG methods have been extended to Riemannian manifold optimization, but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Chunming Tang , Shaohui Liang , Huangyue Chen

This paper studies the problem of distributed Riemannian optimization over a network of agents whose cost functions are geodesically smooth but possibly geodesically non-convex. Extending a well-known distributed optimization strategy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Xiuheng Wang , Ricardo Borsoi , Cédric Richard , Ali H. Sayed

We study the properties of stochastic approximation applied to a tame nondifferentiable function subject to constraints defined by a Riemannian manifold. The objective landscape of tame functions, arising in o-minimal topology extended to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Johannes Aspman , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Reza Roohi Seraji

In this paper we consider a family of algorithms for approximate implicitization of rational parametric curves and surfaces. The main approximation tool in all of the approaches is the singular value decomposition, and they are therefore…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-30 Oliver J. D. Barrowclough , Tor Dokken

The natural gradient method is widely used in statistical optimization, but its standard formulation assumes a Euclidean parameter space. This paper proposes an inversion-free stochastic natural gradient method for probability distributions…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-06 Dario Draca , Takuo Matsubara , Minh-Ngoc Tran

For a smooth affine algebraic group $G$ over an algebraically closed field, we consider several two-variables generalizations of the affine Grassmannian $G(\!(t)\!)/G[\![t]\!]$, given by quotients of the double loop group…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Andrea Maffei , Valerio Melani , Gabriele Vezzosi

We propose new algorithms to efficiently average a collection of points on a Grassmannian manifold in both the centralized and decentralized settings. Grassmannian points are used ubiquitously in machine learning, computer vision, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Brighton Ancelin , Alex Saad-Falcon , Kason Ancelin , Justin Romberg

We study a class of optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds, where the objective function consists of a smooth term and quasi-norm type penalties with exponent $p \in (0, 1]$. The essential difficulty lies in the fact that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Lei Wang , Xiaojun Chen

In this paper, we define the geometric median of a probability measure on a Riemannian manifold, give its characterization and a natural condition to ensure its uniqueness. In order to calculate the median in practical cases, we also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Le Yang

Correlation matrices are fundamental summaries of functional brain networks, yet standard analyses often treat entries independently, ignoring the curved geometry of correlation space. Existing geometric methods frequently lack closed-form…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Mario Severino , Manuela Moretto , Robert A. McCutcheon , Mattia Veronese