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The techniques and analysis presented in this thesis provide new methods to solve optimization problems posed on Riemannian manifolds. These methods are applied to the subspace tracking problem found in adaptive signal processing and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-09 Steven Thomas Smith

The theory of geodesic regression aims to find a geodesic curve which is an optimal fit to a given set of data. In this article we restrict ourselves to the Riemannian manifold of positive definite operators (matrices) on a Hilbert space of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 Frank Hansen

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

Graph data often exhibits complex geometric heterogeneity, where structures with varying local curvature, such as tree-like hierarchies and dense communities, coexist within a single network. Existing geometric GNNs, which embed graphs into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xudong Wang , Chris Ding , Tongxin Li , Jicong Fan

We consider the problem of density estimation on Riemannian manifolds. Density estimation on manifolds has many applications in fluid-mechanics, optics and plasma physics and it appears often when dealing with angular variables (such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-10 Mevlana C. Gemici , Danilo Rezende , Shakir Mohamed

Conjugate gradient (CG) methods are widely acknowledged as efficient for minimizing continuously differentiable functions in Euclidean spaces. In recent years, various CG methods have been extended to Riemannian manifold optimization, but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Chunming Tang , Shaohui Liang , Huangyue Chen

Solving the inverse kinematics problem is a fundamental challenge in motion planning, control, and calibration for articulated robots. Kinematic models for these robots are typically parametrized by joint angles, generating a complicated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Filip Marić , Matthew Giamou , Adam W. Hall , Soroush Khoubyarian , Ivan Petrović , Jonathan Kelly

Manifolds occur naturally as configuration spaces of robotic systems. They provide global descriptions of local coordinate systems that are common tools in expressing positions of robots. The purpose of this survey is threefold. Firstly, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Stephan Mescher

We propose a geometric latent-subspace framework for generative modeling of discrete data. Specifically, we introduce latent subspaces in the exponential parameter space of product manifolds of categorical distributions as a novel method…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-08 Daniel Gonzalez-Alvarado , Jonas Cassel , Stefania Petra , Christoph Schnörr

It is developed a Riemannian reformulation of classical statistical mechanics for systems in thermodynamic equilibrium, which arises as a natural extension of Ruppeiner geometry of thermodynamics. The present proposal leads to interpret…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-19 L Velazquez

Manifold Learning is a class of algorithms seeking a low-dimensional non-linear representation of high-dimensional data. Thus manifold learning algorithms are, at least in theory, most applicable to high-dimensional data and sample sizes to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-10 James McQueen , Marina Meila , Jacob VanderPlas , Zhongyue Zhang

This paper introduces a new metric and mean on the set of positive semidefinite matrices of fixed-rank. The proposed metric is derived from a well-chosen Riemannian quotient geometry that generalizes the reductive geometry of the positive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-10-21 Silvere Bonnabel , Rodolphe Sepulchre

Hyperbolic geometry, a Riemannian manifold endowed with constant sectional negative curvature, has been considered an alternative embedding space in many learning scenarios, \eg, natural language processing, graph learning, \etc, as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Pengfei Fang , Mehrtash Harandi , Trung Le , Dinh Phung

Multi-domain graph pre-training integrates knowledge from diverse domains to enhance performance in the target domains, which is crucial for building graph foundation models. Despite initial success, existing solutions often fall short of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Li Sun , Zhenhao Huang , Silei Chen , Lanxu Yang , Junda Ye , Sen Su , Philip S. Yu

We elucidate the geometry of quantum adiabatic evolution. By minimizing the deviation from adiabaticity we find a Riemannian metric tensor underlying adiabatic evolution. Equipped with this tensor, we identify a unified geometric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-28 Ali T. Rezakhani , Damian F. Abasto , Daniel A. Lidar , Paolo Zanardi

The Riemannian geometry of covariance matrices has been essential to several successful applications, in computer vision, biomedical signal and image processing, and radar data processing. For these applications, an important ongoing…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-15 Salem Said , Hatem Hajri , Lionel Bombrun , Baba C. Vemuri

The Wasserstein space of probability measures is known for its intricate Riemannian structure, which underpins the Wasserstein geometry and enables gradient flow algorithms. However, the Wasserstein geometry may not be suitable for certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Zhengxin Zhang , Ziv Goldfeld , Kristjan Greenewald , Youssef Mroueh , Bharath K. Sriperumbudur

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have emerged as a powerful unsupervised method to model the statistical patterns of real-world data sets, such as natural images. These networks are trained to map random inputs in their latent space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Binxu Wang , Carlos R. Ponce

Rapid growth of high-dimensional datasets in fields such as single-cell RNA sequencing and spatial genomics has led to unprecedented opportunities for scientific discovery, but it also presents unique computational and statistical…

Hyperbolic geometry is gaining traction in machine learning for its effectiveness at capturing hierarchical structures in real-world data. Hyperbolic spaces, where neighborhoods grow exponentially, offer substantial advantages and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Philippe Chlenski , Ethan Turok , Antonio Moretti , Itsik Pe'er