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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 describe inexact proximal Newton-like methods for solving degenerate regularized optimization problems and for the broader problem of finding a zero of a generalized equation that is the sum of a continuous map and a maximal monotone…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Ching-pei Lee , Stephen J. Wright

The paper proposes a variational-inequality based primal-dual dynamic that has a globally exponentially stable saddle-point solution when applied to solve linear inequality constrained optimization problems. A Riemannian geometric framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-07 P. Bansode , V. Chinde , S. R. Wagh , R. Pasumarthy , N. M. Singh

Optimization over the Stiefel manifold is a fundamental computational problem in many scientific and engineering applications. Despite considerable research effort, high-dimensional optimization problems over the Stiefel manifold remain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Andy Yat-Ming Cheung , Jinxin Wang , Man-Chung Yue , Anthony Man-Cho So

We propose a manifold AdaGrad-Norm method (\textsc{MAdaGrad}), which extends the norm version of AdaGrad (AdaGrad-Norm) to Riemannian optimization. In contrast to line-search schemes, which may require several exponential map computations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Glaydston de C. Bento , Geovani N. Grapiglia , Mauricio S. Louzeiro , Daoping Zhang

Riemannian meta-optimization provides a promising approach to solving non-linear constrained optimization problems, which trains neural networks as optimizers to perform optimization on Riemannian manifolds. However, existing Riemannian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Peilin Yu , Yuwei Wu , Zhi Gao , Xiaomeng Fan , Yunde Jia

We introduce a notion of inexact model of a convex objective function, which allows for errors both in the function and in its gradient. For this situation, a gradient method with an adaptive adjustment of some parameters of the model is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Fedor S. Stonyakin

We propose a new Riemannian gradient descent method for computing spherical area-preserving mappings of topological spheres using a Riemannian retraction-based framework with theoretically guaranteed convergence. The objective function is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Marco Sutti , Mei-Heng Yueh

By restricting the iterate on a nonlinear manifold, the recently proposed Riemannian optimization methods prove to be both efficient and effective in low rank tensor completion problems. However, existing methods fail to exploit the easily…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-24 Tengfei Zhou , Hui Qian , Zebang Shen , Congfu Xu

Large-scale optimization problems arising from the discretization of problems involving PDEs sometimes admit solutions that can be well approximated by low-rank matrices. In this paper, we will exploit this low-rank approximation property…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Marco Sutti , Bart Vandereycken

Mirror Descent (MD) is a scalable first-order method widely used in large-scale optimization, with applications in image processing, policy optimization, and neural network training. This paper generalizes MD to optimization on Riemannian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-19 Jiaxin Jiang , Lei Shi , Jiyuan Tan

Grover's algorithm is a fundamental quantum algorithm that achieves a quadratic speedup for unstructured search problems of size $N$. Recent studies have reformulated this task as a maximization problem on the unitary manifold and solved it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Zhijian Lai , Dong An , Jiang Hu , Zaiwen Wen

We consider Riemannian inequality-constrained optimization problems. Such problems inherit the benefits of Riemannian approach developed in the unconstrained setting and naturally arise from applications in control, machine learning, and…

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

Stochastic gradient descent is a simple approach to find the local minima of a cost function whose evaluations are corrupted by noise. In this paper, we develop a procedure extending stochastic gradient descent algorithms to the case where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Silvere Bonnabel

In this work, we propose Natural Hypergradient Descent (NHGD), a new method for solving bilevel optimization problems. To address the computational bottleneck in hypergradient estimation--namely, the need to compute or approximate Hessian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Deyi Kong , Zaiwei Chen , Shuzhong Zhang , Shancong Mou

In this paper, we consider optimizing a smooth, convex, lower semicontinuous function in Riemannian space with constraints. To solve the problem, we first convert it to a dual problem and then propose a general primal-dual algorithm to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Shijun Wang , Baocheng Zhu , Lintao Ma , Yuan Qi

Riemannian submanifold optimization with momentum is computationally challenging because, to ensure that the iterates remain on the submanifold, we often need to solve difficult differential equations. Here, we simplify such difficulties…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-19 Wu Lin , Valentin Duruisseaux , Melvin Leok , Frank Nielsen , Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan , Mark Schmidt

The natural gradient descent optimisation technique is an efficient optimising protocol for broad classes of classical and quantum systems that takes the underlying geometry of the parameter manifold into account by means of using either…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Ankit Gill , Kunal Pal

Riemannian geometry provides the fundamental framework for optimization on nonlinear spaces such as matrix manifolds, which arise in machine learning, signal processing, and robotics. While the underlying theory is classical, existing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Benyamin Ghojogh

Low-rank optimization problems with sparse simplex constraints involve variables that must satisfy nonnegativity, sparsity, and sum-to-1 conditions, making their optimization particularly challenging due to the interplay between low-rank…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Flavia Esposito , Andersen Ang