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In this work we propose a differential geometric motivation for Nesterov's accelerated gradient method (AGM) for strongly-convex problems. By considering the optimization procedure as occurring on a Riemannian manifold with a natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Aaron Defazio

Projected gradient descent and its Riemannian variant belong to a typical class of methods for low-rank matrix estimation. This paper proposes a new Nesterov's Accelerated Riemannian Gradient algorithm by efficient orthographic retraction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Hongyi Li , Zhen Peng , Chengwei Pan , Di Zhao

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

We propose the first global accelerated gradient method for Riemannian manifolds. Toward establishing our result we revisit Nesterov's estimate sequence technique and develop an alternative analysis for it that may also be of independent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Kwangjun Ahn , Suvrit Sra

We propose computationally tractable accelerated first-order methods for Riemannian optimization, extending the Nesterov accelerated gradient (NAG) method. For both geodesically convex and geodesically strongly convex objective functions,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Jungbin Kim , Insoon Yang

In this paper, we consider a class of nonconvex-linear minimax problems on Riemannian manifolds, which find wide applications in machine learning and signal processing. For solving this class of problems, we develop a flexible Riemannian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Meng Xu , Bo Jiang , Ya-Feng Liu , Anthony Man-Cho So

Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent method (AGD) is a seminal deterministic first-order method known to achieve the optimal order of iteration complexity for solving convex smooth optimization problems. Two distinct sequences of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Yan Wu , Yipeng Zhang , Lu Liu , Yuyuan Ouyang

Equilibrium computation on Riemannian manifolds provides a unifying framework for numerous problems in machine learning and data analytics. One of the simplest yet most fundamental methods is Riemannian gradient descent (RGD). While its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Yang Cai , Michael I. Jordan , Tianyi Lin , Argyris Oikonomou , Emmanouil-Vasileios Vlatakis-Gkaragkounis

We study the convergence of Nesterov Accelerated Gradient (NAG) minimization algorithmapplied to a class of non convex functions called strongly quasar convex functions. We show thatNAG can achieve an accelerated convergence speed at the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Julien Hermant , Jean-François Aujol , Charles Dossal , Aude Rondepierre

In the Euclidean setting, the proximal gradient method and its accelerated variants are a class of efficient algorithms for optimization problems with decomposable objective. In this paper, we develop a Riemannian proximal gradient method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Wen Huang , Ke Wei

We present a family of algorithms, called descent algorithms, for optimizing convex and non-convex functions. We also introduce a new first-order algorithm, called rescaled gradient descent (RGD), and show that RGD achieves a faster…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Ashia Wilson , Lester Mackey , Andre Wibisono

We analyze inexact Riemannian gradient descent (RGD) where Riemannian gradients and retractions are inexactly (and cheaply) computed. Our focus is on understanding when inexact RGD converges and what is the complexity in the general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-10 Yuchen Li , Laura Balzano , Deanna Needell , Hanbaek Lyu

Proximal methods are known to identify the underlying substructure of nonsmooth optimization problems. Even more, in many interesting situations, the output of a proximity operator comes with its structure at no additional cost, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Gilles Bareilles , Franck Iutzeler , Jérôme Malick

Novel convergence analyses are presented of Riemannian stochastic gradient descent (RSGD) on a Hadamard manifold. RSGD is the most basic Riemannian stochastic optimization algorithm and is used in many applications in the field of machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Hiroyuki Sakai , Hideaki Iiduka

The subgradient method is a classical and foundational approach in non-smooth convex optimization; its simplicity, robustness, and role as a conceptual and algorithmic starting point have made it the backbone of many significant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 G. C. Bento , J. X. Cruz Neto , J. O. Lopes , I. D. L. Melo

We propose a globally-accelerated, first-order method for the optimization of smooth and (strongly or not) geodesically-convex functions in a wide class of Hadamard manifolds. We achieve the same convergence rates as Nesterov's accelerated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-18 David Martínez-Rubio , Sebastian Pokutta

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

We consider a class of (possibly strongly) geodesically convex optimization problems on Hadamard manifolds, where the objective function splits into the sum of a smooth and a possibly nonsmooth function. We introduce an intrinsic convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Ronny Bergmann , Hajg Jasa , Paula John , Max Pfeffer

We study the convergence of the Riemannian steepest descent algorithm on the Grassmann manifold for minimizing the block version of the Rayleigh quotient of a symmetric matrix. Even though this problem is non-convex in the Euclidean sense…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Foivos Alimisis , Bart Vandereycken

There is a growing interest in using robust control theory to analyze and design optimization and machine learning algorithms. This paper studies a class of nonconvex optimization problems whose cost functions satisfy the so-called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-11 Huaqing Xiong , Yuejie Chi , Bin Hu , Wei Zhang
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