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In this paper, we define the geometric median of a probability measure on a Riemannian manifold, give its characterization and a natural condition to ensure its uniqueness. In order to calculate the median in practical cases, we also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Le Yang

Meta-learning, or "learning to learn," aims to enable models to quickly adapt to new tasks with minimal data. While traditional methods like Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) optimize parameters in Euclidean space, they often struggle to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 JuneYoung Park , YuMi Lee , Tae-Joon Kim , Jang-Hwan Choi

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

We propose a robust method for location estimation in various matrix manifolds based on the projected Frobenius median, which is closely related to the spatial median. This method applies broadly to matrix manifolds, including Stiefel and…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-09 Houren Hong , Kassel Liam Hingee , Janice L. Scealy , Andrew T. A. Wood

We show that compact Riemannian manifolds, regarded as metric spaces with their global geodesic distance, cannot contain a number of rigid structures such as (a) arbitrarily large regular simplices or (b) arbitrarily long sequences of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Alexandru Chirvasitu

In this paper, we study Riemannian zeroth-order optimization in settings where the underlying Riemannian metric $g$ is geodesically incomplete, and the goal is to approximate stationary points with respect to this incomplete metric. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Shaocong Ma , Heng Huang

On the manifold $\Met(M)$ of all Riemannian metrics on a compact manifold $M$ one can consider the natural $L^2$-metric as described first by \cite{Ebin70}. In this paper we consider variants of this metric which in general are of higher…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-21 Martin Bauer , Philipp Harms , Peter W. Michor

We study a continuous-time system that solves optimization problems over the set of orthonormal matrices, which is also known as the Stiefel manifold. The resulting optimization flow follows a path that is not always on the manifold but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Bin Gao , Simon Vary , Pierre Ablin , P. -A. Absil

We consider stochastic zeroth-order optimization over Riemannian submanifolds embedded in Euclidean space, where the task is to solve Riemannian optimization problem with only noisy objective function evaluations. Towards this, our main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Jiaxiang Li , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Shiqian Ma

We consider the fundamental task of optimising a real-valued function defined in a potentially high-dimensional Euclidean space, such as the loss function in many machine-learning tasks or the logarithm of the probability distribution in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-20 Marcelo Hartmann , Bernardo Williams , Hanlin Yu , Mark Girolami , Alessandro Barp , Arto Klami

This paper is a short summary of our recent work on the medians and means of probability measures in Riemannian manifolds. Firstly, the existence and uniqueness results of local medians are given. In order to compute medians in practical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-16 Marc Arnaudon , Frédéric Barbaresco , Le Yang

Many machine learning applications are naturally formulated as optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds. The main idea behind Riemannian optimization is to maintain the feasibility of the variables while moving along a descent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Andi Han , Pratik Jawanpuria , Bamdev Mishra

We discuss pseudo-Riemannian metrics on 2-dimensional manifolds such that the geodesic flow admits a nontrivial integral quadratic in velocities. We construct local normal forms of such metrics. We show that these metrics have certain…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Alexey V. Bolsinov , Vladimir S. Matveev , Giuseppe Pucacco

The problem of recovering the configuration of points from their partial pairwise distances, referred to as the Euclidean Distance Matrix Completion (EDMC) problem, arises in a broad range of applications, including sensor network…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Chandler Smith , HanQin Cai , Abiy Tasissa

An increasingly common viewpoint is that protein dynamics data sets reside in a non-linear subspace of low conformational energy. Ideal data analysis tools for such data sets should therefore account for such non-linear geometry. The…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-27 Willem Diepeveen , Carlos Esteve-Yagüe , Jan Lellmann , Ozan Öktem , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

We will propose a new algorithm for finding critical points of cost functions defined on a differential manifold. We will lift the initial cost function to a manifold that can be embedded in a Riemannian manifold (Euclidean space) and will…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Petre Birtea , Dan Comănescu , Călin-Adrian Popa

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 determine the length of the shortest nontrivial geodesic loops on the Stiefel manifold endowed with any member of the one-parameter family of Riemannian metrics introduced by H\"uper et al. (2021). This family includes, in particular,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Jakob Stoye , Simon Mataigne , P. -A. Absil , Ralf Zimmermann

The isometric embedding problem for Riemannian manifolds, which connects intrinsic and extrinsic geometry, is a central question in differential geometry with deep theoretical significance and wide-ranging applications. Despite extensive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Guangwei Gao , Kaibo Hu , Buyang Li , Ganghui Zhang

Riemannian optimization uses local methods to solve optimization problems whose constraint set is a smooth manifold. A linear step along some descent direction usually leaves the constraints, and hence retraction maps are used to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Alexander Heaton , Matthias Himmelmann