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We propose a novel Riemannian preconditioning approach for the tensor completion problem with rank constraint. A Riemannian metric or inner product is proposed that exploits the least-squares structure of the cost function and takes into…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Hiroyuki Kasai , Bamdev Mishra

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

This paper presents a perturbation analysis framework for nonsmooth optimization on connected Riemannian manifolds to bridge the gap between the rapid development of algorithmic approaches and a robust theoretical foundation. Using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Yuexin Zhou , Chao Ding , Yangjing Zhang

Direct search methods represent a robust and reliable class of algorithms for solving black-box optimization problems. In this paper, we explore the application of those strategies to Riemannian optimization, wherein minimization is to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Francesco Rinaldi , Damiano Zeffiro

Optimization problems on the generalized Stiefel manifold (and products of it) are prevalent across science and engineering. For example, in computational science they arise in symmetric (generalized) eigenvalue problems, in nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-27 Boris Shustin , Haim Avron

Riemannian structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds arise naturally in shape analysis and shape optimization. These applications lead to optimization problems on manifolds which are not modeled on Banach spaces. The present article…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Valentina Zalbertus , Max Pfeffer , Alexander Schmeding

Several tensor networks are built of isometric tensors, i.e. tensors satisfying $W^\dagger W = \mathrm{I}$. Prominent examples include matrix product states (MPS) in canonical form, the multiscale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Markus Hauru , Maarten Van Damme , Jutho Haegeman

This paper advocates a novel framework for segmenting a dataset in a Riemannian manifold $M$ into clusters lying around low-dimensional submanifolds of $M$. Important examples of $M$, for which the proposed clustering algorithm is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-02 Xu Wang , Konstantinos Slavakis , Gilad Lerman

Understanding how systems built out of modular components can be jointly optimized is an important problem in biology, engineering, and machine learning. The backpropagation algorithm is one such solution and has been instrumental in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Christian Pehle , Jean-Jacques Slotine

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

This work presents a thorough numerical study of Riemannian Newton's Method (RNM) for optimization problems, with a focus on the Grassmannian and on the Stiefel manifold. We compare the Riemannian formulation of Newton's Method with its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Caio O. da Silva , Yuri A. Aoto , Felipe F. G. S. Costa , Márcio F. da Silva

Numerous problems in optics, quantum physics, stability analysis, and control of dynamical systems can be brought to an optimization problem with matrix variable subjected to the symplecticity constraint. As this constraint nicely forms a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-18 Bin Gao , Nguyen Thanh Son , Tatjana Stykel

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

We propose a novel Riemannian method for solving the Extreme multi-label classification problem that exploits the geometric structure of the sparse low-dimensional local embedding models. A constrained optimization problem is formulated as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Jayadev Naram , Tanmay Kumar Sinha , Pawan Kumar

We provide an explicit formula for the Levi-Civita connection and Riemannian Hessian for a Riemannian manifold that is a quotient of a manifold embedded in an inner product space with a non-constant metric function. Together with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Du Nguyen

We propose a robust and scalable procedure for general optimization and inference problems on manifolds leveraging the classical idea of `median-of-means' estimation. This is motivated by ubiquitous examples and applications in modern data…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-16 Lizhen Lin , Drew Lazar , Bayan Sarpabayeva , David B. Dunson

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

We consider a class of nonsmooth optimization problems over the Stiefel manifold, in which the objective function is weakly convex in the ambient Euclidean space. Such problems are ubiquitous in engineering applications but still largely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Xiao Li , Shixiang Chen , Zengde Deng , Qing Qu , Zhihui Zhu , Anthony Man Cho So

After reviewing manifold optimization techniques in applications like MIMO communication systems, phased array beamforming, radar, and control theory, we observed that the Complex Circle Manifold (CCM) is widely employed, yet its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Amirreza Tabrizi , Mohammad Hadi Mirmohammadi

Motivated by the problem of learning a linear regression model whose parameter is a large fixed-rank non-symmetric matrix, we consider the optimization of a smooth cost function defined on the set of fixed-rank matrices. We adopt the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-04-25 B. Mishra , G. Meyer , S. Bonnabel , R. Sepulchre