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Various tasks in scientific computing can be modeled as an optimization problem on the indefinite Stiefel manifold. We address this using the Riemannian approach, which basically consists of equipping the feasible set with a Riemannian…

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We develop a theory of accelerated first-order optimization from the viewpoint of differential equations and Lyapunov functions. Building upon the previous work of many researchers, we consider differential equations which model the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Jonathan W. Siegel

In this paper, we introduce the notion of generalized $\epsilon$-stationarity for a class of nonconvex and nonsmooth composite minimization problems on compact Riemannian submanifold embedded in Euclidean space. To find a generalized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Zheng Peng , Weihe Wu , Jiang Hu , Kangkang Deng

Despite their frequent slow convergence, proximal gradient schemes are widely used in large-scale optimization tasks due to their tremendous stability, scalability, and ease of computation. In this paper, we develop and investigate a…

Computation · Statistics 2025-08-19 Nicholas C. Henderson , Ravi Varadhan

Convergence analysis of Nesterov's accelerated gradient method has attracted significant attention over the past decades. While extensive work has explored its theoretical properties and elucidated the intuition behind its acceleration, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Jun Liu

Since Nesterov's seminal 1983 work, many accelerated first-order optimization methods have been proposed, but their analyses lacks a common unifying structure. In this work, we identify a geometric structure satisfied by a wide range of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-05 Jongmin Lee , Chanwoo Park , Ernest K. Ryu

We derive efficient algorithms to compute weakly Pareto optimal solutions for smooth, convex and unconstrained multiobjective optimization problems in general Hilbert spaces. To this end, we define a novel inertial gradient-like dynamical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Konstantin Sonntag , Sebastian Peitz

We propose a novel second-order ODE as the continuous-time limit of a Riemannian accelerated gradient-based method on a manifold with curvature bounded from below. This ODE can be seen as a generalization of the ODE derived for Euclidean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Foivos Alimisis , Antonio Orvieto , Gary Bécigneul , Aurelien Lucchi

Nonlinear dimensionality reduction methods provide a valuable means to visualize and interpret high-dimensional data. However, many popular methods can fail dramatically, even on simple two-dimensional manifolds, due to problems such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-08 Daniel Ting , Michael I. Jordan

In recent years, manifold learning has become increasingly popular as a tool for performing non-linear dimensionality reduction. This has led to the development of numerous algorithms of varying degrees of complexity that aim to recover man…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-06-03 Dominique Perraul-Joncas , Marina Meila

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

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

Accelerated gradient methods play a central role in optimization, achieving optimal rates in many settings. While many generalizations and extensions of Nesterov's original acceleration method have been proposed, it is not yet clear what is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Andre Wibisono , Ashia C. Wilson , Michael I. Jordan

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing a smooth function on a Riemannian manifold and present a Riemannian gradient method with momentum. The proposed algorithm represents a substantial and nontrivial extension of a recently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Filippo Leggio , Diego Scuppa

We propose an inexact optimization algorithm on Riemannian manifolds, motivated by quadratic discrimination tasks in high-dimensional, low-sample-size (HDLSS) imaging settings. In such applications, gradient evaluations are often biased due…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Uday Talwar , Meredith K. Kupinski , Afrooz Jalilzadeh

We formulate two classes of first-order algorithms more general than previously studied for minimizing smooth and strongly convex or, respectively, smooth and convex functions. We establish sufficient conditions, via new discrete Lyapunov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-21 Penghui Fu , Zhiqiang Tan

We consider the proximal gradient method on Riemannian manifolds for functions that are possibly not geodesically convex. Starting from the forward-backward-splitting, we define an intrinsic variant of the proximal gradient method that uses…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Ronny Bergmann , Hajg Jasa , Paula John , Max Pfeffer

There is extensive literature on accelerating first-order optimization methods in a Euclidean setting. Under which conditions such acceleration is feasible in Riemannian optimization problems is an active area of research. Motivated by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Jiyoung Park , Abhishek Roy , Jonathan W. Siegel , Anirban Bhattacharya

There is widespread sentiment that it is not possible to effectively utilize fast gradient methods (e.g. Nesterov's acceleration, conjugate gradient, heavy ball) for the purposes of stochastic optimization due to their instability and error…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-02 Prateek Jain , Sham M. Kakade , Rahul Kidambi , Praneeth Netrapalli , Aaron Sidford

We study the problem of minimizing a strongly convex, smooth function when we have noisy estimates of its gradient. We propose a novel multistage accelerated algorithm that is universally optimal in the sense that it achieves the optimal…

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