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Optimization problems occurring in a wide variety of physical design problems, including but not limited to optical engineering, quantum control, structural engineering, involve minimization of a simple cost function of the state of the…

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We address the non-convex optimisation problem of finding a sparse matrix on the Stiefel manifold (matrices with mutually orthogonal columns of unit length) that maximises (or minimises) a quadratic objective function. Optimisation problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Florian Bernard , Daniel Cremers , Johan Thunberg

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

Recent advancements in data science have significantly elevated the importance of orthogonally constrained optimization problems. The Riemannian approach has become a popular technique for addressing these problems due to the advantageous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Linglingzhi Zhu , Wentao Ding , Shangyuan Liu , Anthony Man-Cho So

We develop a generalization of Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent method which is designed to deal with orthogonality constraints. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, we perform numerical experiments which demonstrate that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-07 Jonathan W. Siegel

Gradient descent with momentum has been widely applied in various signal processing and machine learning tasks, demonstrating a notable empirical advantage over standard gradient descent. However, momentum-based distributed Riemannian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Jun Chen , Tianyi Zhu , Haishan Ye , Lina Liu , Guang Dai , Yong Liu , Yunliang Jiang , Ivor W. Tsang

The natural gradient method is widely used in statistical optimization, but its standard formulation assumes a Euclidean parameter space. This paper proposes an inversion-free stochastic natural gradient method for probability distributions…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-06 Dario Draca , Takuo Matsubara , Minh-Ngoc Tran

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

We address an algorithm for the least squares fitting of a subset of the eigenvalues of an unknown Hermitian matrix lying an an affine subspace, called the Lift and Projection (LP) method, due to Chen and Chu (SIAM Journal on Numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Alban Bloor Riley , Marcus Webb , Michael L. Baker

We propose Riemannian preconditioned algorithms for the tensor completion problem via tensor ring decomposition. A new Riemannian metric is developed on the product space of the mode-2 unfolding matrices of the core tensors in tensor ring…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Bin Gao , Renfeng Peng , Ya-xiang Yuan

We propose a stochastic variance-reduced cubic regularized Newton algorithm to optimize the finite-sum problem over a Riemannian submanifold of the Euclidean space. The proposed algorithm requires a full gradient and Hessian update at the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-14 Dewei Zhang , Sam Davanloo Tajbakhsh

The Trust Region Subproblem is a fundamental optimization problem that takes a pivotal role in Trust Region Methods. However, the problem, and variants of it, also arise in quite a few other applications. In this article, we present a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-19 Uria Mor , Boris Shustin , Haim Avron

Matrix-valued optimization tasks, including those involving symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices, arise in a wide range of applications in machine learning, data science and statistics. Classically, such problems are solved via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Andrew Cheng , Melanie Weber

In Riemannian computing applications, it is crucial to map manifold data to a Euclidean domain, where vector space arithmetic is available, and back. Classical manifold theory guarantees the existence of such mappings, called charts and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Ralf Zimmermann

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

Shape optimization is commonly applied in engineering to optimize shapes with respect to an objective functional relying on PDE solutions. In this paper, we view shape optimization as optimization on Riemannian shape manifolds. We consider…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Estefania Loayza-Romero , Kathrin Welker

The adaptive cubic regularization algorithm employing the inexact gradient and Hessian is proposed on general Riemannian manifolds, together with the iteration complexity to get an approximate second-order optimality under certain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Z. Y. Li , X. M. Wang

We recover the Riemannian gradient of a given function defined on interior points of a Riemannian submanifold in the Euclidean space based on a sample of function evaluations at points in the submanifold. This approach is based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Alvaro Almeida Gomez , Antônio J. Silva Neto , Jorge P. Zubelli

Recently, a Riemannian proximal Newton method has been developed for optimizing problems in the form of $\min_{x\in\mathcal{M}} f(x) + \mu \|x\|_1$, where $\mathcal{M}$ is a compact embedded submanifold and $f(x)$ is smooth. Although this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Wen Huang , Wutao Si

We study smooth stochastic optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds. Via adapting the recently proposed SPIDER algorithm \citep{fang2018spider} (a variance reduced stochastic method) to Riemannian manifold, we can achieve faster rate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-17 Jingzhao Zhang , Hongyi Zhang , Suvrit Sra