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We present a new framework for statistical inference on Riemannian manifolds that achieves high-order accuracy, addressing the challenges posed by non-Euclidean parameter spaces frequently encountered in modern data science. Our approach…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Chengzhu Huang , Anru R. Zhang

We propose a stochastic recursive momentum method for Riemannian non-convex optimization that achieves a near-optimal complexity of $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(\epsilon^{-3})$ to find $\epsilon$-approximate solution with one sample. That is, our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-12 Andi Han , Junbin Gao

We provide a unifying approximate dynamic programming framework that applies to a broad variety of problems involving sequential estimation. We consider first the construction of surrogate cost functions for the purposes of optimization,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Dimitri Bertsekas

Modern generative models hold great promise for accelerating diverse tasks involving the simulation of physical systems, but they must be adapted to the specific constraints of each domain. Significant progress has been made for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-19 Louis Grenioux , Leonardo Galliano , Ludovic Berthier , Giulio Biroli , Marylou Gabrié

We present new algorithms and fast implementations to find efficient approximations for modelling stochastic processes. For many numerical computations it is essential to develop finite approximations for stochastic processes. While the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Kipngeno Benard Kirui , Georg Ch. Pflug , Alois Pichler

Stochastic approximation algorithm is a useful technique which has been exploited successfully in probability theory and statistics for a long time. The step sizes used in stochastic approximation are generally taken to be deterministic and…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-25 Ujan Gangopadhyay , Krishanu Maulik

Gradient descent with momentum has been widely applied in various signal processing and machine learning tasks, demonstrating a notable empirical advantage over standard gradient descent. However, momentum-based distributed Riemannian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Jun Chen , Tianyi Zhu , Haishan Ye , Lina Liu , Guang Dai , Yong Liu , Yunliang Jiang , Ivor W. Tsang

Random invariant manifolds often provide geometric structures for understanding stochastic dynamics. In this paper, a dynamical approximation estimate is derived for a class of stochastic partial differential equations, by showing that the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-10-08 Wei Wang , Jinqiao Duan

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 two approaches, based on Riemannian optimization, for computing a stochastic approximation of the $p$th root of a stochastic matrix $A$. In the first approach, the approximation is found in the Riemannian manifold of positive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Fabio Durastante , Beatrice Meini

Nonsmooth Riemannian optimization has attracted increasing attention, especially in problems with sparse structures. While existing formulations typically involve convex nonsmooth terms, incorporating nonsmooth difference-of-convex (DC)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Bo Jiang , Meng Xu , Xingju Cai , Ya-Feng Liu

Inspired by regularization techniques in statistics and machine learning, we study complementary composite minimization in the stochastic setting. This problem corresponds to the minimization of the sum of a (weakly) smooth function endowed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Alexandre d'Aspremont , Cristóbal Guzmán , Clément Lezane

The Bunch-Kaufman algorithm and Aasen's algorithm are two of the most widely used methods for solving symmetric indefinite linear systems, yet they both are known to suffer from occasional numerical instability due to potentially…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-10 Yuehua Feng , Jianwei Xiao , Ming Gu

We propose a Laplace approximation that creates a stochastic unit from any smooth monotonic activation function, using only Gaussian noise. This paper investigates the application of this stochastic approximation in training a family of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-25 Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Barnabas Poczos , Jeff Schneider , Dale Schuurmans , Russell Greiner

Motion planning problems have been studied by both the robotics and the controls research communities for a long time, and many algorithms have been developed for their solution. Among them, incremental sampling-based motion planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-05-01 Oktay Arslan , Panagiotis Tsiotras

In this paper we study nonconvex and nonsmooth multi-block optimization over Riemannian manifolds with coupled linear constraints. Such optimization problems naturally arise from machine learning, statistical learning, compressive sensing,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-09 Junyu Zhang , Shiqian Ma , Shuzhong Zhang

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

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

In this paper a new Riemannian rank adaptive method (RRAM) is proposed for the low-rank tensor completion problem (LRTCP) formulated as a least-squares optimization problem on the algebraic variety of tensors of bounded tensor-train (TT)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Charlotte Vermeylen , Marc Van Barel

Two algorithms are proposed, analyzed, and tested for solving continuous optimization problems with nonlinear equality constraints. Each is an extension of a stochastic momentum-based method from the unconstrained setting to the setting of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Qi Wang , Christian Piermarini , Yunlang Zhu , Frank E. Curtis