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Gradient descent, or negative gradient flow, is a standard technique in optimization to find minima of functions. Many implementations of gradient descent rely on discretized versions, i.e., moving in the gradient direction for a set step…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Dara Gold , Steven Rosenberg

Gradient descent methods are fundamental first-order optimization algorithms in both Euclidean spaces and Riemannian manifolds. However, the exact gradient is not readily available in many scenarios. This paper proposes a novel inexact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Juan Zhou , Kangkang Deng , Hongxia Wang , Zheng Peng

In recent years there has been significant effort to adapt the key tools and ideas in convex optimization to the Riemannian setting. One key challenge has remained: Is there a Nesterov-like accelerated gradient method for geodesically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Linus Hamilton , Ankur Moitra

Local optimization presents a promising approach to expensive, high-dimensional black-box optimization by sidestepping the need to globally explore the search space. For objective functions whose gradient cannot be evaluated directly,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Quan Nguyen , Kaiwen Wu , Jacob R. Gardner , Roman Garnett

Smooth, non-convex optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds occur in machine learning as a result of orthonormality, rank or positivity constraints. First- and second-order necessary optimality conditions state that the Riemannian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Chris Criscitiello , Nicolas Boumal

In this paper, we study the interior gradient estimates for admissible solutions to prescribed curvature equations in hyperbolic space.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-02 Zhenan Sui , Wei Sun

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

For strongly convex objectives that are smooth, the classical theory of gradient descent ensures linear convergence relative to the number of gradient evaluations. An analogous nonsmooth theory is challenging. Even when the objective is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-19 X. Y. Han , Adrian S. Lewis

In this paper, the Riemannian gradient algorithm and the natural gradient algorithm are applied to solve descent direction problems on the manifold of positive definite Hermitian matrices, where the geodesic distance is considered as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Xiaomin Duan , Huafei Sun , Linyu Peng

Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a widely used approach to representing high-dimensional, dependent data. MDS works by assigning each observation a location on a low-dimensional geometric manifold, with distance on the manifold…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-16 Bolun Liu , Shane Lubold , Adrian E. Raftery , Tyler H. McCormick

We present a Riemannian optimization framework for Hartree-Fock theory formulated directly in the Sobolev space $H^1$. The orthonormality constraints are interpreted geometrically via infinite-dimensional Stiefel and Grassmann manifolds…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Evgueni Dinvay

We consider a parabolic equation driven by a nonlinear diffusive operator and we obtain a gradient estimate in the domain where the equation takes place. This estimate depends on the structural constants of the equation, on the geometry of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-08 Serena Dipierro , Zu Gao , Enrico Valdinoci

A promising approach to investigating high-dimensional problems is to identify their intrinsically low-dimensional features, which can be achieved through recently developed techniques for effective low-dimensional representation of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Zeyu Jin , Ruo Li

We consider the problem of approximating a function by an element of a nonlinear manifold which admits a differentiable parametrization, typical examples being neural networks with differentiable activation functions or tensor networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Anthony Nouy , Agustín Somacal

The natural gradient descent optimisation technique is an efficient optimising protocol for broad classes of classical and quantum systems that takes the underlying geometry of the parameter manifold into account by means of using either…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Ankit Gill , Kunal Pal

We study first-order optimization algorithms for computing the barycenter of Gaussian distributions with respect to the optimal transport metric. Although the objective is geodesically non-convex, Riemannian GD empirically converges…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Jason M. Altschuler , Sinho Chewi , Patrik Gerber , Austin J. Stromme

Learning in hyperbolic spaces has attracted increasing attention due to its superior ability to model hierarchical structures of data. Most existing hyperbolic learning methods use fixed distance measures for all data, assuming a uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Pengxiang Li , Yuwei Wu , Zhi Gao , Xiaomeng Fan , Wei Wu , Zhipeng Lu , Yunde Jia , Mehrtash Harandi

A dimension reduction for the hyperbolic space is established. When points are far apart an embedding with bounded distortion into the hyperbolic plane is achieved.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-10-09 itai benjamini , Yury Makarychev

Gradient descent algorithms have been used in countless applications since the inception of Newton's method. The explosion in the number of applications of neural networks has re-energized efforts in recent years to improve the standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Chad Kelterborn , Marcin Mazur , Bogdan V. Petrenko

We make a brief historical review to the moment model reduction to the kinetic equations, particularly the Grad's moment method for Boltzmann equation. The focus is on the hyperbolicity of the reduced model, which is essential to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-26 Zhenning Cai , Yuwei Fan , Ruo Li