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The gradient method for minimize a differentiable convex function on Riemannian manifolds with lower bounded sectional curvature is analyzed in this paper. The analysis of the method is presented with three different finite procedures for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-08 O. P. Ferreira , M. S. Louzeiro , L. F. Prudente

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

Covariance matrices have attracted attention for machine learning applications due to their capacity to capture interesting structure in the data. The main challenge is that one needs to take into account the particular geometry of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Daniel Brooks , Olivier Schwander , Frederic Barbaresco , Jean-Yves Schneider , Matthieu Cord

We study the Riemannian optimization methods on the embedded manifold of low rank matrices for the problem of matrix completion, which is about recovering a low rank matrix from its partial entries. Assume $m$ entries of an $n\times n$ rank…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-12 Ke Wei , Jian-Feng Cai , Tony F. Chan , Shingyu Leung

Various tasks in scientific computing can be modeled as an optimization problem on the indefinite Stiefel manifold. We address this using the Riemannian approach, which basically consists of equipping the feasible set with a Riemannian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Dinh Van Tiep , Duong Thi Viet An , Nguyen Thi Ngoc Oanh , Nguyen Thanh Son

We consider Riemannian optimization problems with inequality and equality constraints and analyze a class of Riemannian interior point methods for solving them. The algorithm of interest consists of outer and inner iterations. We show that,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Mitsuaki Obara , Takayuki Okuno , Akiko Takeda

Natural Gradient Descent, a second-degree optimization method motivated by the information geometry, makes use of the Fisher Information Matrix instead of the Hessian which is typically used. However, in many cases, the Fisher Information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Rajesh Shrestha

We study the convergence issue for the gradient algorithm (employing general step sizes) for optimization problems on general Riemannian manifolds (without curvature constraints). Under the assumption of the local convexity/quasi-convexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-08 Chong Li , Xiangmei Wang , Jinhua Wang , Jen-Chih Yao

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

Optimization problems with access to only zeroth-order information of the objective function on Riemannian manifolds arise in various applications, spanning from statistical learning to robot learning. While various zeroth-order algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-10 Chang He , Zhaoye Pan , Xiao Wang , Bo Jiang

Landing methods have recently emerged in Riemannian matrix optimization as efficient schemes for handling nonlinear equality constraints without resorting to costly retractions. These methods decompose the search direction into tangent and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Florentin Goyens , Florian Feppon

For optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds, many types of globally convergent algorithms have been proposed, and they are often equipped with the Riemannian version of the Armijo line search for global convergence. Such existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Hiroyuki Sato , Yuya Yamakawa , Kensuke Aihara

In this work, we present a novel approach for solving stochastic shape optimization problems. Our method is the extension of the classical stochastic gradient method to infinite-dimensional shape manifolds. We prove convergence of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Caroline Geiersbach , Estefania Loayza-Romero , Kathrin Welker

This paper proposes a Riemannian Multiobjective Proximal Gradient Method (RMPGM) for composite optimization problems on manifolds. Unlike scalarization-based approaches, the proposed framework directly handles vector-valued objectives and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Kangming Chen

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

Riemannian optimization is a principled framework for solving optimization problems where the desired optimum is constrained to a smooth manifold $\mathcal{M}$. Algorithms designed in this framework usually require some geometrical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-08 Boris Shustin , Haim Avron , Barak Sober

This work is on constrained large-scale non-convex optimization where the constraint set implies a manifold structure. Solving such problems is important in a multitude of fundamental machine learning tasks. Recent advances on Riemannian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Yian Deng , Tingting Mu

The indicator matrix plays an important role in machine learning, but optimizing it is an NP-hard problem. We propose a new relaxation of the indicator matrix and prove that this relaxation forms a manifold, which we call the Relaxed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Jinghui Yuan , Fangyuan Xie , Feiping Nie , Xuelong Li

In the Euclidean setting, the proximal gradient method and its accelerated variants are a class of efficient algorithms for optimization problems with decomposable objective. In this paper, we develop a Riemannian proximal gradient method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Wen Huang , Ke Wei

Many optimization problems require balancing multiple conflicting objectives. As gradient descent is limited to single-objective optimization, we introduce its direct generalization: Jacobian descent (JD). This algorithm iteratively updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Pierre Quinton , Valérian Rey