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This paper presents a perturbation analysis framework for nonsmooth optimization on connected Riemannian manifolds to bridge the gap between the rapid development of algorithmic approaches and a robust theoretical foundation. Using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Yuexin Zhou , Chao Ding , Yangjing Zhang

We study the problem of finding the global Riemannian center of mass of a set of data points on a Riemannian manifold. Specifically, we investigate the convergence of constant step-size gradient descent algorithms for solving this problem.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-05 Bijan Afsari , Roberto Tron , René Vidal

In this paper, a descent method for nonsmooth multiobjective optimization problems on complete Riemannian manifolds is proposed. The objective functions are only assumed to be locally Lipschitz continuous instead of convexity used in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Chunming Tang , Hao He , Jinbao Jian , Miantao Chao

We investigate the convergence of the primal-dual algorithm for composite optimization problems when the objective functions are weakly convex. We introduce a modified duality gap function, which is a lower bound of the standard duality gap…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Ewa Bednarczuk , The Hung Tran , Monika Syga

In non-smooth stochastic optimization, we establish the non-convergence of the stochastic subgradient descent (SGD) to the critical points recently called active strict saddles by Davis and Drusvyatskiy. Such points lie on a manifold $M$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Pascal Bianchi , Walid Hachem , Sholom Schechtman

A class of convex constrained minimization problems over polyhedral cones for geometry-dependent quadratic objective functions is considered in a functional analysis framework. Shape differentiability of the primal minimization problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-18 V. A. Kovtunenko , K. Ohtsuka

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

In this paper, we propose nonlinear conjugate gradient methods for vector optimization on Riemannian manifolds. The concepts of Wolfe and Zoutendjik conditions are extended for Riemannian manifolds. Specifically, we establish the existence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Kangming Chen , Ellen H. Fukuda , Hiroyuki Sato

Riemannian accelerated gradient methods have been well studied for smooth optimization, typically treating geodesically convex and geodesically strongly convex cases separately. However, their extension to nonsmooth problems on manifolds…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Shuailing Feng , Yuhang Jiang , Wen Huang , Shihui Ying

In this paper we study the Dirichlet problem for fully nonlinear second-order equations on a riemannian manifold. As in a previous paper we define equations via closed subsets of the 2-jet bundle. Basic existence and uniqueness theorems are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-12 F. Reese Harvey , H. Blaine Lawson

Convex optimization is a well-established research area with applications in almost all fields. Over the decades, multiple approaches have been proposed to solve convex programs. The development of interior-point methods allowed solving a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Ahmed Douik , Babak Hassibi

We describe the first gradient methods on Riemannian manifolds to achieve accelerated rates in the non-convex case. Under Lipschitz assumptions on the Riemannian gradient and Hessian of the cost function, these methods find approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Christopher Criscitiello , Nicolas Boumal

We consider the consensus problem in a decentralized network, focusing on a compact submanifold that acts as a nonconvex constraint set. By leveraging the proximal smoothness of the compact submanifold, which encompasses the local singleton…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Jiang Hu , Jiaojiao Zhang , Kangkang Deng

This paper analyzes the contraction of the primal-dual gradient optimization via contraction theory in the context of discrete-time updating dynamics. The contraction theory based on Riemannian manifolds is first established for convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Yanxu Su , Yang Shi , Changyin Sun

We study a stochastic primal-dual method for constrained optimization over Riemannian manifolds with bounded sectional curvature. We prove non-asymptotic convergence to the optimal objective value. More precisely, for the class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-24 Masoud Badiei Khuzani , Na Li

In these notes we study the Dirichlet problem for critical points of a convex functional of the form \[ F(u)=\int_{\Omega}\phi\left( \left\vert \nabla u\right\vert \right) , \] where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain of a complete Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Jaime Ripoll , Friedrich Tomi

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

We study stochastic projection-free methods for constrained optimization of smooth functions on Riemannian manifolds, i.e., with additional constraints beyond the parameter domain being a manifold. Specifically, we introduce stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Melanie Weber , Suvrit Sra

From optimal transport to robust dimensionality reduction, a plethora of machine learning applications can be cast into the min-max optimization problems over Riemannian manifolds. Though many min-max algorithms have been analyzed in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-29 Michael I. Jordan , Tianyi Lin , Emmanouil-Vasileios Vlatakis-Gkaragkounis

The paper is devoted to the existence of weak Pareto solutions and the weak sharp minima at infinity property for a general class of constrained nonconvex vector optimization problems with unbounded constraint set via asymptotic cones and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Tran Van Nghi , Le Ngoc Kien , Nguyen Van Tuyen