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This paper studies the problem of distributed Riemannian optimization over a network of agents whose cost functions are geodesically smooth but possibly geodesically non-convex. Extending a well-known distributed optimization strategy…

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We examine a wide class of stochastic approximation algorithms for solving (stochastic) nonlinear problems on Riemannian manifolds. Such algorithms arise naturally in the study of Riemannian optimization, game theory and optimal transport,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Mohammad Reza Karimi , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Andreas Krause

The (global) Lipschitz smoothness condition is crucial in establishing the convergence theory for most optimization methods. Unfortunately, most machine learning and signal processing problems are not Lipschitz smooth. This motivates us to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Qiuwei Li , Zhihui Zhu , Gongguo Tang , Michael B. Wakin

In recent years, stochastic variance reduction algorithms have attracted considerable attention for minimizing the average of a large but finite number of loss functions. This paper proposes a novel Riemannian extension of the Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Hiroyuki Sato , Hiroyuki Kasai , Bamdev Mishra

Many modern machine learning applications - from online principal component analysis to covariance matrix identification and dictionary learning - can be formulated as minimization problems on Riemannian manifolds, and are typically solved…

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We study the problem of finding the global Riemannian center of mass of a set of data points on a Riemannian manifold. Specifically, we investigate the convergence of constant step-size gradient descent algorithms for solving this problem.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-05 Bijan Afsari , Roberto Tron , René Vidal

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

In this paper, we propose Riemannian conditional gradient methods for minimizing composite functions, i.e., those that can be expressed as the sum of a smooth function and a retraction-based convex function. We analyze the convergence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Kangming Chen , Ellen H. Fukuda

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

Natural gradient descent is an optimization method traditionally motivated from the perspective of information geometry, and works well for many applications as an alternative to stochastic gradient descent. In this paper we critically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 James Martens

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

We analyze convergence of gradient-descent methods on Riemannian manifolds. In particular, we study randomization of Riemannian gradient algorithms for minimizing smooth cost functions (of Morse-Bott type). We prove that randomized gradient…

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This paper proposes a novel general framework of Riemannian conjugate gradient methods, that is, conjugate gradient methods on Riemannian manifolds. The conjugate gradient methods are important first-order optimization algorithms both in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Hiroyuki Sato

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

The problem of determining the configuration of points from partial distance information, known as the Euclidean Distance Geometry (EDG) problem, is fundamental to many tasks in the applied sciences. In this paper, we propose two algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Chandler Smith , HanQin Cai , Abiy Tasissa

Bilevel optimization has gained prominence in various applications. In this study, we introduce a framework for solving bilevel optimization problems, where the variables in both the lower and upper levels are constrained on Riemannian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Andi Han , Bamdev Mishra , Pratik Jawanpuria , Akiko Takeda

Optimization with orthogonality constraints frequently arises in various fields such as machine learning. Riemannian optimization offers a powerful framework for solving these problems by equipping the constraint set with a Riemannian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Andi Han , Pierre-Louis Poirion , Akiko Takeda

Riemannian optimization is concerned with problems, where the independent variable lies on a smooth manifold. There is a number of problems from numerical linear algebra that fall into this category, where the manifold is usually specified…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Rasmus Jensen , Ralf Zimmermann

In this paper, we give explicit descriptions of versions of (Local-) Backtracking Gradient Descent and New Q-Newton's method to the Riemannian setting.Here are some easy to state consequences of results in this paper, where X is a general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Tuyen Trung Truong

In this paper, we develop a new classification method for manifold-valued data in the framework of probabilistic learning vector quantization. In many classification scenarios, the data can be naturally represented by symmetric positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Fengzhen Tang , Haifeng Feng , Peter Tino , Bailu Si , Daxiong Ji