English
Related papers

Related papers: Unconstrained optimisation on Riemannian manifolds

200 papers

We give curvature-dependant convergence rates for the optimization of weakly convex functions defined on a manifold of 1-bounded geometry via Riemannian gradient descent and via the dynamic trivialization algorithm. In order to do this, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-07 Mario Lezcano-Casado

Stochastic minimax optimization on Riemannian manifolds has recently attracted significant attention due to its broad range of applications, such as robust training of neural networks and robust maximum likelihood estimation. Existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Hongye Wang , Chang He , Bo Jiang

Strictly enforcing orthonormality constraints on parameter matrices has been shown advantageous in deep learning. This amounts to Riemannian optimization on the Stiefel manifold, which, however, is computationally expensive. To address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Jun Li , Li Fuxin , Sinisa Todorovic

Motivated by the problem of online canonical correlation analysis, we propose the \emph{Stochastic Scaled-Gradient Descent} (SSGD) algorithm for minimizing the expectation of a stochastic function over a generic Riemannian manifold. SSGD…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-25 Chris Junchi Li , Michael I. Jordan

This paper advocates a novel framework for segmenting a dataset in a Riemannian manifold $M$ into clusters lying around low-dimensional submanifolds of $M$. Important examples of $M$, for which the proposed clustering algorithm is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-02 Xu Wang , Konstantinos Slavakis , Gilad Lerman

In this paper, we study structured quasi-Newton methods for optimization problems with orthogonality constraints. Note that the Riemannian Hessian of the objective function requires both the Euclidean Hessian and the Euclidean gradient. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Jiang Hu , Bo Jiang , Lin Lin , Zaiwen Wen , Yaxiang Yuan

We study a type of Riemannian gradient descent (RGD) algorithm, designed through Riemannian preconditioning, for optimization on $\mathcal{M}_k^{m\times n}$ -- the set of $m\times n$ real matrices with a fixed rank $k$. Our analysis is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Shuyu Dong , Bin Gao , Wen Huang , Kyle A. Gallivan

We address the problem of computing the smallest symplectic eigenvalues and the corresponding eigenvectors of symmetric positive-definite matrices in the sense of Williamson's theorem. It is formulated as minimizing a trace cost function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-06 Nguyen Thanh Son , P. -A. Absil , Bin Gao , Tatjana Stykel

We propose a descent subgradient algorithm for minimizing a real function, assumed to be locally Lipschitz, but not necessarily smooth or convex. To find an effective descent direction, the Goldstein subdifferential is approximated through…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Morteza Maleknia , Majid Soleimani-damaneh

In probabilistic modeling, parameter estimation is commonly formulated as a minimization problem on a parameter manifold. Optimization in such spaces requires geometry-aware methods that respect the underlying information structure. While…

Computation · Statistics 2025-11-17 Derun Zhou , Keisuke Yano , Mahito Sugiyama

This work addresses the finite-time analysis of nonsmooth nonconvex stochastic optimization under Riemannian manifold constraints. We adapt the notion of Goldstein stationarity to the Riemannian setting as a performance metric for nonsmooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Emre Sahinoglu , Youbang Sun , Shahin Shahrampour

In this manuscript, we propose a general proximal quasi-Newton method tailored for nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems, where we do not require the sequence of the variable metric (or Hessian approximation) to be uniformly bounded…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Xiaoxi Jia

We study the convergence issue for inexact descent algorithm (employing general step sizes) for multiobjective optimizations on general Riemannian manifolds (without curvature constraints). Under the assumption of the local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Xiangmei Wang , Jinhua Wang , Chong Li

Consider the geometric inverse problem: There is a set of delta-sources in spacetime that emit waves travelling at unit speed. If we know all the arrival times at the boundary cylinder of the spacetime, can we reconstruct the space, a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Maarten V. de Hoop , Joonas Ilmavirta , Matti Lassas , Teemu Saksala

We review the theory of, and develop algorithms for transforming a finite point set in ${\bf R}^d$ into a set in \emph{radial isotropic position} by a nonsingular linear transformation followed by rescaling each image point to the unit…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Shiri Artstein-Avidan , Haim Kaplan , Micha Sharir

Euclidean gradient descent algorithms barely capture the geometry of objective function-induced hypersurfaces and risk driving update trajectories off the hypersurfaces. Riemannian gradient descent algorithms address these issues but fail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Liwei Hu , Guangyao Li , Wenyong Wang , Xiaoming Zhang , Yu Xiang

In this paper, we consider the composite optimization problems over the Stiefel manifold. A successful method to solve this class of problems is the proximal gradient method proposed by Chen et al. Motivated by the proximal Newton-type…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Qinsi Wang , Wei Hong Yang

We extend coordinate descent to manifold domains, and provide convergence analyses for geodesically convex and non-convex smooth objective functions. Our key insight is to draw an analogy between coordinate blocks in Euclidean space and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-16 David Huckleberry Gutman , Nam Ho-Nguyen

This paper considers the recovery of a rank $r$ positive semidefinite matrix $X X^T\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ from $m$ scalar measurements of the form $y_i := a_i^T X X^T a_i$ (i.e., quadratic measurements of $X$). Such problems arise in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-02 Chris D. White , Sujay Sanghavi , Rachel Ward

Associated to every closed, embedded submanifold $N$ of a connected Riemannian manifold $M$, there is the distance function $d_N$ which measures the distance of a point in $M$ from $N$. We analyze the square of this function and show that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Sachchidanand Prasad