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The paper studies a distributed gradient descent (DGD) process and considers the problem of showing that in nonconvex optimization problems, DGD typically converges to local minima rather than saddle points. The paper considers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Brian Swenson , Ryan Murray , H. Vincent Poor , Soummya Kar

We propose Quantum Riemannian Hamiltonian Descent (QRHD), a quantum algorithm for continuous optimization on Riemannian manifolds that extends Quantum Hamiltonian Descent (QHD) by incorporating geometric structure of the parameter space via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Yoshihiko Abe , Ryo Nagai

In recent years, the proximal gradient method and its variants have been generalized to Riemannian manifolds for solving optimization problems with an additively separable structure, i.e., $f + h$, where $f$ is continuously differentiable,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Wutao Si , P. -A. Absil , Wen Huang , Rujun Jiang , Simon Vary

This paper considers a stochastic optimization problem over the fixed point sets of quasinonexpansive mappings on Riemannian manifolds. The problem enables us to consider Riemannian hierarchical optimization problems over complicated sets,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Hideaki Iiduka , Hiroyuki Sakai

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

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

This paper proposes a general framework of Riemannian adaptive optimization methods. The framework encapsulates several stochastic optimization algorithms on Riemannian manifolds and incorporates the mini-batch strategy that is often used…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Hiroyuki Sakai , Hideaki Iiduka

We study optimization over Riemannian embedded submanifolds, where the objective function is relatively smooth in the ambient Euclidean space. Such problems have broad applications but are still largely unexplored. We introduce two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Chang He , Jiaxiang Li , Bo Jiang , Shiqian Ma , Shuzhong Zhang

Finding constrained saddle points on Riemannian manifolds is significant for analyzing energy landscapes arising in physics and chemistry. Existing works have been limited to special manifolds that admit global regular level-set…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Yukuan Hu , Laura Grazioli

We extend the classical primal-dual interior point method from the Euclidean setting to the Riemannian one. Our method, named the Riemannian interior point method, is for solving Riemannian constrained optimization problems. We establish…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Zhijian Lai , Akiko Yoshise

Motivated by energy based analyses for descent methods in the Euclidean setting, we investigate a generalisation of such analyses for descent methods over Riemannian manifolds. In doing so, we find that it is possible to derive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Vishwak Srinivasan , Ashia Wilson

In this paper, we propose a variant of Riemannian stochastic recursive gradient method that can achieve second-order convergence guarantee and escape saddle points using simple perturbation. The idea is to perturb the iterates when gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-30 Andi Han , Junbin Gao

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

In this paper, we present an adaptive gradient descent method for geodesically convex optimization on a Riemannian manifold with nonnegative sectional curvature. The method automatically adapts to the local geometry of the function and does…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Aban Ansari-Önnestam , Yura Malitsky

We develop a new Riemannian descent algorithm that relies on momentum to improve over existing first-order methods for geodesically convex optimization. In contrast, accelerated convergence rates proved in prior work have only been shown to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Foivos Alimisis , Antonio Orvieto , Gary Bécigneul , Aurelien Lucchi

Under the data manifold hypothesis, high-dimensional data are concentrated near a low-dimensional manifold. We study the problem of Riemannian optimization over such manifolds when they are given only implicitly through the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Andrey Kharitenko , Zebang Shen , Riccardo de Santi , Niao He , Florian Doerfler

A quasi-Newton method with cubic regularization is designed for solving Riemannian unconstrained nonconvex optimization problems. The proposed algorithm is fully adaptive with at most ${\cal O} (\epsilon_g^{-3/2})$ iterations to achieve a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Mauricio S. Louzeiro , Gilson N. Silva , Jinyun Yuan , Daoping Zhang

The matrix completion problem consists of finding or approximating a low-rank matrix based on a few samples of this matrix. We propose a new algorithm for matrix completion that minimizes the least-square distance on the sampling set over…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-19 Bart Vandereycken

This work puts forth low-complexity Riemannian subspace descent algorithms for the minimization of functions over the symmetric positive definite (SPD) manifold. Different from the existing Riemannian gradient descent variants, the proposed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-19 Yogesh Darmwal , Ketan Rajawat

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